So You Think You Can Be President?
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So You Think You Can Be President? is a re-imagined reality television show where candidates compete for American votes!
Presidential hopefuls must present their positions on major issues in front of a live studio audience then face hard-hitting critiques from our panel of judges. Viewers at home will delight in the spectacle as candidates are challenged in ways never before seen in mainstream media.
In this week’s episode, only two weeks before the election, Senator Obama and Senator McCain have their feet held to the fire over shockingly similar positions on energy and foreign policy.
Who will be this season’s champion and take home the grand prize? You’ll have to watch and decide for yourself, then participate in the show by casting a vote* for your favorite performer on November 4th!
*Some restrictions may apply. In certain areas these include, but are not limited to, faulty electronic voting systems, racist voter laws and/or voter roll purges. See your local polling place for details.
FAIR USE NOTICE:
This transformative remix work constitutes a fair-use of any copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US copyright law. “So You Think You Can Be President?” by Jonathan McIntosh is licensed under a Creative Commons BY-NC-3.0 License – permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution.
OTHER VIDEO FORMATS:
Watch in 16:9 widescreen on blip.tv or share on YouTube. You can also download the higher-res quicktime.
MORE RESOURCES:
Rainforest Action Network – ran.org
Power Vote – powervote.org
Iraq Veterans Against the War – ivaw.org
War Resisters League – warresisters.org
Energy Action Coalition – energyactioncoalition.org
Student Environmental Action Coalition – seac.org
Energy Justice Network – energyjustice.net
Howard Zinn on Obama - video interview
Noam Chomsky on Obama – video interview
APPROPRIATED SOURCE MATERIAL:
So You Think You Can Dance – Season 3 & 4
2008 US Presidential Debates 1, 2 & 3 – PBS, BBC, PBS
Road to the White House – MSNBC
“The Politics of Dancing” by Re-Flex
7 Responses to “So You Think You Can Be President?”
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This is brilliant!
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* FAN-FREEKIN’-TASTIC * !!!! Hope this shows up on nightly news and all over the place.
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This is great! I hope that people from all sides of the political spectrum will watch and allow themselves to question the status quo canidates that we have accepted as “good enough”.
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I love this for many reasons, not least of which is that I’m a dedicated sytycd fan, and who knew the judges could be so politically astute!?!
I am also grateful to see, even if only in remix form, some folks talking back to some of Obama’s stances, and hoping that there is enough of a social movement for those kinds of voices to be part of the political mix where it counts.
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Fantabulous idea, wonderful video, bloody brilliant on the whole!
Thank you for sharing this with the world.
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awesome!
sharing this thru facebook!
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