In order to prepare for the U.S. presidency, Barack Obama has undertaken an internship with the Spanish Prime Minister, the Onion News Network reports.


Obama Undertakes Presidential Internship To Ease Concerns About His Lack Of Experience

Here is Tina Fey on the Late Show with David Letterman talking about getting Sarah Palin's voice right, and she says it wasn't hard: "Not since Sling Blade has there been a voice that anybody could do."

Here's another installment that imagines attack ads conceived by well-known Hollywood directors, or should we say auteurs, given that a send-up of David Lynch is included. In true Twin Peaks spirit, one character asks, "Can you tell me who to vote for?" only to receive the enigmatic answer: "Oh, I sure can. As soon as you can tell me why these avocados cost so much out of season."

Sen. Barack Obama was on The Daily Show last night, and Jon Stewart asked him about the so-called Bradley Effect. "Are you concerned that you may go into the voting booth," Stewart asked, "and your white half will all of a sudden decide, I can't do this?" Watch Obama's response.

CBS newsman Bob Schieffer, who moderated the last debate between John Mccain and Barack Obama, started things off by saying, "Now we've heard all the talking points, so let's try to tell people tonight some things they haven't heard."

Fat chance!

Well, B-, C- and even D-lister (Victoria Jackson? She's still around?) Hollywood actors, anyway. The Republican National Senatorial Committee put together this ad of some of Franken's base blasting the Minnesota Democratic candidate for giving Tinseltown a bad name. We here at Politics (Un)Seriously were happy to see former Cheers star John Ratzenberger back in a starring role. We were just sad that he didn't open the spot with Cliff Claven's trademark line, "It's a little known fact..."

There's Lifetime Television for women, there's Nickelodeon for kids, why not ...

A very pregnant Amy Poehler (and now a new mother) filled in for Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin during last week's Saturday Night Live Weekend Update rap:

Thanks to Slate, we were reminded of what was probably the first movie to portray a black President - James Earl Jones as Douglass Dilman, president pro tempore of the Senate, who assumes the office in "The Man" after the President and Speaker of the House are killed in a building collapse and the Vice-President declines the office due to age and ill-health.

Jon Stewart explores the phenomenon of the campaign-changing "gaffe," and in the process produces an interesting example of what he thinks a "slip of the tongue" is.

You may not think this funny, but obviously Joe Biden did, even though he used it as a springboard for a mini-campaign speech. It all starts when a local TV newsperson thought, after reading her Karl Marx, she might have a "gotcha" moment...

We step off the campaign trail to take a night club break and get entertained by those two smooth crooners, Dick Cheney and Hillary Clinton, who do a duet on "Reunited." See the video at Minimovies.

Barack Obama challenges John McCain to a dance smackdown ... and McCain rises to the challenge, along with a walk-on by Sarah Palin. As McCain says, "My friends... IT'S ON!"

The Tina Fey version of Sarah Palin told the Will Ferrell version of President Bush that John McCain, "upon hearing you wanted to give him a super-public endorsement, cannot be found." But Palin's husband Todd and two of his drinking buddies hunt McCain down and get him to the Oval Office.

Is there a connection between Barack Obama and Wilmer Valderrama? Does Obama drive with his headlights off? here are all the frightening rumors about Obama you never new existed ... and how to answer them!

John McCain has taken a lot of heat for negative campaigning and paid for it in the polls. So, we guess the idea with this video is, that if he's going to go that route, he should do it in style, and pull in some Hollywood directors to make attack ads. Here's what some of them might turn out, gratis The Landline, starting with John Woo...

White women have become a much coveted demographic in this presidential election. The latest effort to win them over - Boybama, a sensitive boy band that wants to win the "Battleground For Your Heart."

Our new favorite video game: Mortal Kombat, Joe Edition. See if you can pull off the Triple Plunger Combo or the Double Kegger Kick. Good times.


Joe Six Pack Vs. Joe The Plumber - Click here for more home videos

Well, there's no hanging chads this time around, but there's always something ...

Tiny Fey, as usual, shines as Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. But how does Sarah Palin do as Tiny Fey? Watch to find out.

This video cracked us up. What a presidential debate would look like if both candidates (and the moderator) were on valium:

Fresh from his roast-fest at the Alfred E. Smith dinner with Barack Obama, John McCain went on the David Letterman show where things started with the obligatory yuks, and then moved on to Letterman grilling McCain about the charges his campaign has been making about Obama's association with former radical William Ayers. (You may have to watch a commercial at the start of the video).

Moving their roadshow from Hofstra University on Long Island to the Waldorf-Astoria in Manhattan, John McCain and Barack Obama, faced off at the venerable New York institution - the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation where they swapped jokes about themselves and each other, starting with McCain announcing that he had replaced his whole team of senior advisers with Joe the Plumber.

As for Obama, he nodded his recognition of the luminaries in the crowd - the McCains, Cardinal Edward Egan, Hillary Clinton, Charles Schumer, Michael Bloomberg and others - and said, "There's no other crowd I'd rather be palling around with right now." And while he appreciated the digs at the Waldorf, saying, "I was originally told we would be able to move this out doors to Yankee Stadium...and can somebody tell me what happened to the Greek columns I requested?

So, what are they smoking in Florida's 16th congressional district? First, there was former Republican Rep. Mark Foley who had to resign in 2006 when news broke about sexually explicit e-mail and text messages he sent to underage congressional pages. Now it turns out his successor, Democrat Tim Mahoney, who is married and has a child, hired his mistress to work for him after he won the election, fired her, paid her $121,000 to cover legal fees after she threatened to sue, and promised her a new job.

It was inevitable that Jon Stewart would deconstruct the Mahoney saga.

Ari Fleischer's appearance on 'The Daily Show' last night further confirmed a long held belief about the Comedy Central host - Jon Stewart is so much better when he is interviewing people with whom he disagrees. Stewart and the former Bush press secretary had an engaging but friendly chat about the current state of the presidential race. At one point, Fleischer revealed something sure to horrify a nation eager to see the Bush Administration hit the road: Dick Cheney comes with the White House.

While we don't usually like to toot our own horn, CQ Politics is debuting a video about a wild congressional race, New York's 13th district. Earlier this year, multiple scandals forced incumbent Vito Fossella to resign his seat, the only Republican-held seat in New York City. CQ Politics reporter Marie Horrigan and video producer Andrew Satter documented the mad scramble to replace him, and we thought you might enjoy a special look into one of the country's wildest Congressional races:

Emily Anderson is just a cute little girl whose dream is to make America "hate John McCain as much as she does":

Precocious Youngster Sells Cookies To Buy Attack Ad

The Clintons are back in the news,on the campaign trail in Scranton, Pa., campaign with Joe Biden. That got us thinking of some of our favorite video parodies of past presidents, some of which we'll be sharing over the next few weeks. We fondly remember this old 'Saturday Night Live' clip of president Clinton combining two of his favorite activities: running and eating.

Well, it was inevitable that Paris Hilton would make her debut on Politics (Un)Seriously especially since she's been running a fake campaign for President ever since John McCain injected her into the race with the now famous "Celebrity" ad. But where does a fake candidate go for advice? To a former fake President, of course, in this case Jed Bartlet, also known as Martin Sheen. Sheen cautions Paris that "being a fake President is a lot harder today than when I was a fake President" because his administration began in the "go-go 90s." Undeterred, Paris explores a range of issues with Jed, er, Martin, including "FoPo," ("Foreign policy, silly").

Yes, the Russian Prime Minister now has his own instructional DVD out showing off his Black Belt prowess. Can he compete with Billy Blanks, Kathy Smith or Denise Austin? The market will decide!

Well, it's been another rotten, grim week on Wall Street, so we may as well close it out with the "Wall Street Rap" from the 1992 movie "Bob Roberts" in which Tim Robbins plays an ultraconservative folk singer who runs for the Senate as a would-be populist.

SNL's faux Tom Brokaw kicks things off by saying from the "enormous list" of "penetrating, provocative and insightful" questions submitted by 80 undecideds in the audience and thousands of e-mails, "I have chosen the eight least interesting."

The Washington Post's Dana Milbank plunges fearlessly into enemy territory - a McCain-Palin rally in Pennsylvania - armed only with signs proclaiming "Mainstream Media" and "I Need a Hug." See if he gets one.

David Letterman's Top 10 list from Tuesday night:

BarackforPresident on YouTube lost no time in posting this video of McCain misspeaking ...

How often have you heard your liberal friends say, "if the Republicans win this year I'm moving to Canada"? Well, thanks to the new 'Ex-patriot Liberal Intellectuals Theocracy Escape plan,' also known as ELITE, they can. Just tell them to watch this infomercial to make sure they qualify:

We missed this at the time, and maybe you did too - Barack Obama doing his own "Top Ten" list on David Letterman.

In case you missed it, the Whig Party convention in Buffalo, N.Y., thanks to CollegeHumor.com.

Enjoy this CNN piece about how SNL has become a fixture in the political humor world. Some great clips included.

Well, it's not quite a knee-slapper, but we'll give Colorado Democratic Senate hopeful Mark Udall at least a point for trying.

... Slate provides you everything you need to know about the presidential campaign so far in three minutes.

Barack Obama caught some flak from his own supporters (and provided some ammunition for a McCain campaign ad) by saying 12 times during the first debate that "John was right" about some point that McCain had raised. So here's some examples from the Onion News Network about how Obama might strike back in a way that doesn't hurt McCain's feelings.

Here's a remix of last night's debate with a little attitude. Does the new "moderator" look a bit like Woody Allen? It's gotta be the glasses.

This high concept "trailer" comes from College Humor. the story line? "An Alaskan hockey mom becomes Vice President in the wackiest family comedy of the year!"

Some of Hollywood's biggest stars use reverse psychology to get you to register to vote. A worthy cause, although we can't help but wonder how many of these A-listers will be skewered for this in a coming episode of South Park. (PS - Some viewers may find some language in this video objectionable).

Jon Stewart envisions the new dramady, Gams and Gammers. You've already seen the rough cuts. As the Daily Show describes it: "Katie Couric is a tough-talking big city reporter, and Sarah Palin is a moose-hunting maverick governor with real specs appeal."

Now we're no scientists here at Politics (Un)Seriously, but we do know one thing for certain: humor is the most important motivator in one's decision-making process. We'll call it the Laugh Law. 'Stand Tall for America,' a group sponsored by Oregon Senator Ron Wyden (D), is banking on the Laugh Law to get people interested in a bill promoting a universal health care bill. This video is meant to be a humorous teaser to lure you to their web site and learn more about the bill.

Alaska Gov. and John McCain's vice presidential pick Sarah Palin has touted her state's proximity to Russia enhances of her foreign policy credentials. Palin told CBS News anchor Katie Couric: "Our next door neighbors are foreign countries. They're in the state that I am the executive of. And they're in Russia."

To gauge how large a presence Russia is in Alaska, CNN reporter Gary Tuchman goes to the place where you can actually see our former Cold War enemy, the remote Little Diomede island. Turns out Sarah Palin has never been to the little island, which leads Politics (Un)Seriously to wonder whether Little Diomede mayor Andrew Milligrock was considered for the ticket.

For all of CNN and the other major networks' undecided voters panels during the presidential debate, the most illuminating panel by far (except for CQ's, of course - we spent the night with a few undecideds in Roanoke, VA) was organized by... surprise, surprise, The Daily Show. Senior Senior Correspondent Wyatt Cenac spent the evening in Florida with a panel of elderly Jewish voters. While the spot was meant to be funny - and it was - it also provided some of the most honest and candid 'real person' reaction of the night.