Baracky II: Change We Can Believe In of the Tiger
Back in April — when all seemed bleakest in the epic battle between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama — some incredibly smart genius who should probably get the Nobel Prize for Flash Animation*, created this brilliant mash-up of the movie Rocky and the Democratic primaries.
Obviously, he or she is a pretty staunch Obama partisan. Which is fine, I suppose, so long as you're also an Obama partisan. If not, however, I think you'd still have to admit that the filmmaker/propagandist did an amazing job of tying the threads of the two narratives together to his or her own ends.
Well, here's the inevitable sequel, this time starring John McCain as Clubber Lang. And the results are similarly propagantastic…
* Or Premiere or whatever you use to do stuff like this with videos. (My understanding of that stuff is roughly on par with John McCain's.)




When not using Rocky clips, this gets seriously preachy. But when it does, it's brilliant. I loved the Obama jump-roping scene – the gigantic grin on Michelle's face is priceless.