# Obama's problems \[YouTube rap video\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [September 30, 2012, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-problems-youtube-rap-video/636292 "2012-09-30T07:08:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![azraiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@azraiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/azraiel)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2012, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-problems-youtube-rap-video/636292/1 "2012-09-30T07:08:50Z")
I hope I didn’t miss this elsewhere, but Obama has [problems](http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2C22wBf2h5k). Mitt ain’t one. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-problems-youtube-rap-video/636292/2 "2012-10-01T00:27:13Z")
If you can’t be bothered to write a single line of description, I can’t be bothered to follow your link. I’m just sayin’. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-problems-youtube-rap-video/636292/3 "2012-10-01T00:42:51Z")
And it’s a youtube link. Awesome. Try telling us what’s in it first or don’t bother posting it. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-problems-youtube-rap-video/636292/4 "2012-10-01T00:47:20Z")
Yeah, description of content please, or I’m not clicking. ---
**Author:** ![Linden\_Arden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/53a042/32.png) [@Linden\_Arden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linden_Arden)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-problems-youtube-rap-video/636292/5 "2012-10-01T00:49:53Z")
Probably a link “proving” that Barney Frank single-handidly caused the financial crisis. I won’t watch it either. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-problems-youtube-rap-video/636292/6 "2012-10-01T00:50:38Z")
Ferchrissakes, folks, typing a grouchy response is more work than clicking on the link to find out that it’s a spliced-together video of Obama saying a bunch of words to make it look like he’s rapping about being a corporate sellout. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-problems-youtube-rap-video/636292/7 "2012-10-01T00:51:56Z")
Nope. Grouchy is what is called for here. The OP has been around as long as I have. They should know better. ---
**Author:** ![Linden\_Arden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/53a042/32.png) [@Linden\_Arden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linden_Arden)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-problems-youtube-rap-video/636292/8 "2012-10-01T00:51:58Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Ferchrissakes, folks, typing a grouchy response is more work than clicking on the link to find out that it’s a spliced-together video of Obama saying a bunch of words to make it look like he’s rapping about being a corporate sellout. But not as effective an antidote. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-problems-youtube-rap-video/636292/9 "2012-10-01T01:24:14Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Nope. Grouchy is what is called for here. The OP has been around as long as I have. They should know better. Especially given all the threads we’ve had in the last 3 months that consist of nothing more than what we got here, and are links to Crazy Stupid Bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Parker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@Richard\_Parker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Parker)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-problems-youtube-rap-video/636292/10 "2012-10-01T01:32:21Z")
Parts of this are pretty clever, which is weird juxtaposed against the “Bank$ KonTrol 3v3rything” nonsense. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-problems-youtube-rap-video/636292/11 "2012-10-01T01:33:01Z")
Expanded the thread title to clarify what’s in the video. ---
**Author:** ![azraiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@azraiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/azraiel)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-problems-youtube-rap-video/636292/12 "2012-10-01T02:05:35Z")
My sincere apologies, everyone. I do know better. I thought the “Mitt ain’t one” was enough of a tip-off, failing to consider that my cultural touchstones aren’t necessarily shared. My bad. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-problems-youtube-rap-video/636292/13 "2012-10-01T02:23:25Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > If you can’t be bothered to write a single line of description, I can’t be bothered to follow your link. I’m just sayin’. > [@Chimera](#): > > And it’s a youtube link. Awesome. Try telling us what’s in it first or don’t bother posting it. > [@Acsenray](#): > > Yeah, description of content please, or I’m not clicking. I understand that when it’s a bit.ly or goes to some place many people haven’t heard of, but it’s a youtube link, you _could_ just click on it and see what it is, you know it’s going to be a video of some sort, it’s not going to contain a virus and if you’re at work, turn the volume down until you figure out what it is. Hell, there’s usually enough lag in the player to turn the YT volume down so you don’t have to mess with your system/speaker volume. But like the OP said, the Obama’s got Problems/Mitt Ain’t One made me guess it was going to have something to do with the Jay-Z song. Anything more would have been like telling people the punchline to a joke before telling them the joke (that way they can tell you ahead of time if they want to hear it or not). FTR, I totally understand wanting a description when someone posts a link to a long video or a video as part of a bigger OP in a context where it needs some introduction, or posting a lecture, or some of the OPs we get from new members that are just simply, “What do you think of this video?” and nothing more etc…but still it’s easy enough to click on it (again, because we can easily see it’s a youtube video), see you’re going to need help trying to figure out what the OP wants and going back and asking. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-problems-youtube-rap-video/636292/14 "2012-10-01T05:00:39Z")
Well I clicked the link (after reading all the previous posts) and I gotta say: That video sucks ass. It’s barely coherent and I wasn’t entertained. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-problems-youtube-rap-video/636292/15 "2012-10-01T05:28:47Z")
The video’s dumb but not as dumb as the first 4 and the 6th comments. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-problems-youtube-rap-video/636292/16 "2012-10-01T06:14:45Z")
Other than “I got 99 problems but Mitt’s not one” that video was completely incoherent and unintelligible. I would say A for effort but… no. ---
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-problems-youtube-rap-video/636292/17 "2012-10-01T13:02:57Z")
I liked the ending, but… gas prices? Really? ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-problems-youtube-rap-video/636292/18 "2012-10-01T15:53:01Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > The video’s dumb but not as dumb as the first 4 and the 6th comments. Jeez, and you guys called me grouchy. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2012, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obamas-problems-youtube-rap-video/636292/19 "2012-10-01T20:24:13Z")
This [Will the Real Mitt Romney](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxch-yi14BE) is really well-done.