At this moment, just barely two weeks after America’s 2008 Presidential election, there’s not a man alive that’s more popular, loved or sensationalized than President Elect Barack Obama; however, it seems that in the wake of the heated election and impassioned political spitfire, the undead have actually become the rancid flavor of the week!
Yes folks, while you were standing in line at the wrong polling location filling out a paper ballot, campaigning for “Change” or thinking “Country First” a zombie revolution of colossal proportions took over YouTube. Yet, refreshingly, it seems that zombies, though headstrong, stubborn and seemingly Republican, actually seem to be nonpartisan, putting political affiliation aside and shamelessly attacking from all angles…depending on whose undead representation of the politics you indulge. According to Nader, Obama-ites are to fear but according to George W. Bush, it’s those pesky slow-moving tourists!
With Election Day being so close to Halloween and most presidential candidates so closely resembling flesh-eating subhuman monsters (I’m looking at you John McCain), it’s no surprise that moderately creative politico junkies have taken the late-October, early-November affairs and smacked them together into countless viral videos. For those Living in FEAR that happen to be political junkies (like myself) these videos are a must watch if your getting sick of the "we did it!" masturbatory attitude of the entire country. Zombies, O-bots, Mitt Zombie? Oh you betcha’!
For those who still aren’t ready for “Change” I present a cleverly edited video from over a year ago in which President George W. Bush raises the terror alert to, I’m guessing green, because of a recent insurgence of zombies (aka slow moving tourists) which he believes have become a threat to our country. It gets really good at about 1:20 and isn’t entirely hard to believe.
Most would say that fervent Obama supporters are largely to credit with his presidential victory, but The Onion presents us with the post-election Obots, a fleet of zombie like college students and fanatical democratic pundits plodding down sidewalks searching for purpose.
Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney was phased out pretty early by mainstream media but that didn’t stop his ravenous supporters. In this video, “Mitt Zombie” conveniently reduces his campaign to one word, bumper-sticker slogan style: “brains”.
Ohh, Ralph Nader. It feels like this man has been running for president as an Independent since this movie came out in 1964! Nader’s latest attempts to gain support included a less than successful video, which intertwines scenes from George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1964) with Obama supporters chanting that catchy “Change” mantra.
Alas, this video bids yet another clever homage to Romero’s Night of the Living Dead and those “real monsters that walk among us”.