Yes, it's really pretty brilliant. Also, showing Obama being embarrassed by his association with Biden is great because it captures something obviously true. Obama waited a weirdly long time to endorse the guy he previously selected as his Vice President. In fact, he waited until he essentially had no other choice. And his endorsement was pretty tepid. Why? Probably because Obama knows that Biden is senile and creepy as fuck, and that his campaign will be a disaster. This is highlighting that fact in a very funny and effective way.

But I agree that the racial (and class) angle is also genius. Obama looks ridiculous in that scene even before Biden starts talking because the fact is you can't picture him just hanging out and watching the game, with a bunch of regular, "authentically black" working-class guys. Being biracial and having been raised by white family members, Obama has always had issues with black "authenticity." He's also a scrawny, goofy-looking, and somewhat effeminate individual (notwithstanding desperate media efforts to present him as "cool"). This video sends the following subliminal message to black men: "Obama is not really one of you. And he's not really on your team. He's on the team of this demented, child-sniffing old white dude. You don't want to be on that team."

Yes, it's really pretty brilliant. Also, showing Obama being embarrassed by his association with Biden is great because it captures something obviously true. Obama waited a weirdly long time to endorse the guy he previously selected as his Vice President. In fact, he waited until he essentially had no other choice. And his endorsement was pretty tepid. Why? Probably because Obama knows that Biden is senile and creepy as fuck, and that his campaign will be a disaster. This is highlighting that fact in a very funny and effective way.

But I agree that the racial (and class) angle is brilliant. Obama looks ridiculous in that scene even before Biden starts talking because the fact is you can't picture him just hanging out and watching the game, with a bunch of regular, "authentically black" working-class guys. Being biracial and having been raised by white family members, Obama has always had issues with black "authenticity." He's also a scrawny, goofy-looking, and somewhat effeminate individual (notwithstanding desperate media efforts to present him as "cool"). This video sends the following subliminal message to black men: "Obama is not really one of you. And he's not really on your team. He's on the team of this demented, child-sniffing old white dude. You don't want to be on that team."