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31.07.2008
Ich Bin Will.i.am?

I'll take any opportunity to link to German newspaper Bild's front-page photo of Obama above a photo of a topless model. But it looks like the tabloid is up to more Obama fun this week, hosting a contest for the best techno remixes of Obama's Berlin speech--essentially Eurofied versions of the Will.i.am Obama mash-ups. Entries 13 and 18 are pretty cool.

McCain may be comparing Obama to Britney and Paris in his latest ad, but those divas ain't got nothin' on these booty-shakin' tracks.

--Zvika Krieger

Posted: Thursday, July 31, 2008 5:40 PM with 5 comment(s)

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Robert Powell said:

Live, from The Love Parade...

The hardest workin' man in politics...

Barack...Hussein...Obama!! (cue the horn section)

July 31, 2008 5:47 PM

agentzero said:

Robert,

What I wouldn't give to see one of his staffers run on stage to put a cape on him...

Zvika,

Your headline has a typo:  "bein" means leg.  You want "bin."

July 31, 2008 6:03 PM

ironyroad said:

For Obama, something local and indeed effective might have been this, to a standard hip-hop/techno beat:

ich bin ein Berliner!

ich bin ein Berliner!

ich steche McCain die Auge aus

Ich ziehe Januar ins Weisse Haus

ich bin ein Berliner!

Getting the JFK thing in there without mentioning him directly.

August 1, 2008 12:14 AM

mpatrickhendri said:

You had to bring techno into this. Two Germans live above me: it's 24-7 techno--thumping deep into my brain. Techno at 9am, techno at 2am, techno at 3pm, techno, techno, techno. It's. Making. Me. Insane. Now bring it to The Plank, my last refuge from that shit. I'll never forgive TNR for this.

August 1, 2008 3:56 AM

bigfish said:

I don't know who said it, but I heard years ago someone say that if it weren't for computers, Europeans couldn't write music.

(Naturally, this excludes the still-rockin' Brits.)

August 1, 2008 11:21 AM