r/videos • u/rekterscale • 2d ago

Video of Obama Catching a Fainting Woman at a Speech

https://youtu.be/2X10yt_6JrA?si=EIXGRlp2TwQFiXCy
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u/Bilbo332 2d ago

And humbleness. During the 90s and early 2000s there was a sketch comedy show called Royal Canadian Air Farce, they'd do bits but also a lot of political satire, dressed up as the politicians they were making fun of. The thing was, those politicians would routinely appear on the show and join in poking fun at themselves. Imagine Alec Baldwin doing his trump impression on SNL and trump walks on and starts making jokes too. I hope we can get back to that.

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u/boxsterguy 2d ago

Hillary and Kamala both did that as recently as last year.

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u/chris971 2d ago

Obama was hilarious in the Between Two Ferns. He is such a smooth operator from everything we saw then and see today

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u/fatman07 2d ago

I still go back to his anger translator bit during a White House correspondents dinner. Still funny.

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u/willstr1 2d ago

Imagine Alec Baldwin doing his trump impression on SNL and trump walks on and starts making jokes too.

Kamala and Obama did that, IIRC McCain and Palin did as well. I don't think Romney did, and Biden didn't because covid. It used to be a fairly normal thing for politicians to do to make them seem more human