Jib Jab Pokes fun at the 2008 Presidential Race

Just as the campaign between Barack Obama and John McCain settled into serious disputes about Iraq policy and economic recovery plans, this year’s 2008 JibJab campaign video is here.

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Jib Jab is the video satire website best known for its 2004 presidential campaign video sung to the tune of ‘This Land is Your Land’ (John Kerry and George Bush singing: "You’re pinko commie…You’re right wing nut job…”)

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The 2008 campaign video “Time for Some Campaignin” (to the tune of Bob Dylan’s The Times They Are a Changin”) pokes fun at Obama as a unicorn-rider living in a fantasy land and McCain as a cranky senior citizen obsessed with war.

But perhaps this year’s presumptive party nominees just aren’t funny enough to sustain a full two-minutes of satire. The video spends almost as much time having fun with a few of JibJab’s favorite targets: President George Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and both Hillary and Bill Clinton.

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The JibJabbers, founders and brothers Evan and Gregg Spiridellis, may have launched the trend of highly produced, online campaign video spoofs, but they no longer have the monopoly. This campaign season has already seen a variety of viral online videos mocking the candidates, from the Obama Girl video and its many imitators, to the Star Wars themed “The Empire Strikes Barack."

And to think, it’s only July.