The Very Short Post Which Concerns Barack Obama, Motörhead, Battlestar Galactica, and to a Lesser Extent, the City of Philadelphia
Riding on SEPTA yesterday, an idea for a new Barack Obama campaign song came soaring through my iPod: Motörhead's "Bomber", the chorus of which sounds crazily like "Obama!" (Thanks to Lemmy's unique British snarl.) I was just outside of Philadelphia, and the lyrical absurdity of this notion inspired me to listen to the song three more times before getting off at the Market East station.
Short of singing Saxon's "Denim & Leather" to a bunch of unemployed steel workers, I don't see any way that Hillary could possibly counter that. In fact, she'd be eating dust for eons.
Granted, it also kind of sounds like he's yelling "Adama!", which is another word that I fully endorse the random shouting of. Where are my Edward James Olmos MP3s?
hahaha... excellent.
Posted by: jeff | April 04, 2008 at 06:50 PM
Baah-hahahaha! Awesome! I'm stuck at Logan Airport, trying to get back to LGA, listening to Lemmy, laughing my ass off, and getting ominous glares from the gate staff. I'll get arrested any second.
Posted by: Steve | April 04, 2008 at 08:41 PM
Mike, the image of Hilary howling "Denim & Leather" will stay with me for the next 8 years no matter who's in there! Bless you...
Posted by: Scott | April 04, 2008 at 09:45 PM
Sadly, No! figured this out about six months ago. WELCOME TO THE INTERNET, MIKE LUPICA.
Posted by: baf | April 05, 2008 at 04:13 AM
As soon as I saw the title of this blog post I knew it had to be written by Mike Lupica :)
Posted by: Vicki - DO or DIY | April 05, 2008 at 06:26 AM
Yes, yes, yes!!!!! Ha ha ha...brilliant!
Posted by: Tim B. | April 05, 2008 at 09:35 AM
hey i'm not saying anything political, but if barack wins, it will be an "ObamaNAtion".
say it fast and often. wonder why there aren't any pro obama groups calling themselves the obamanation. it'd be fun, let's do it, and give the right wing christians the prrof they want that he's the antichrist :) it's be fun to mess with them.
Posted by: zom | April 05, 2008 at 03:58 PM
Any room for Sodom's "Ausgebombt" in this analogy?
Posted by: WmMBerger | April 05, 2008 at 08:42 PM
I've got one for McCain...
http://www.marshallcrenshaw.com/sounds/2008/mccain.mp3
Posted by: Jeffrey Castel De Oro | April 05, 2008 at 09:58 PM
More candidate theme songs here:
http://www.myspace.com/benjiplaysthehits
Posted by: R. Alcatraz | April 06, 2008 at 07:09 PM
Outstanding post, Mike. Kudos, sir.
Tom
Posted by: TS | April 06, 2008 at 08:01 PM
Der lang anhaltende Machtkampf um das Gebiet Tibet, wobei es meiner Ansicht nach um die einseitige Macht Chinas geht
und auf der anderen Seite ein repressionsfreies und anerkanntes Nebenherleben (lt. dem Dalai Lama), spitzt sich
angesichts der bevorstehenden Olympischen Spiele weiter zu.
Posted by: Pedro | April 07, 2008 at 03:45 AM
Above comment is spam. A complete non-sequitor.
Posted by: Goyim in the AM | April 07, 2008 at 06:12 PM
the blog www.streetboners.com made this joke a few weeks ago.
Posted by: sorry 2 say | April 07, 2008 at 11:13 PM
Nice catch Mike, but I think Danzig has an even better Obama theme song:
http://obamaaaaaaaa.ytmnd.com/
Posted by: Hatch | April 09, 2008 at 08:30 AM