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Barack Obama on Japanese TV

During Friday’s news coverage of Barack Obama’s speech at the DNC, one network decided to compensate for its lack of access to the real Obama by interviewing a Japanese Barack Obama impersonator.

Here’s the video clip:

In his comments, he says that an American Obama impersonator looks much more like the real Obama, that Japan’s Prime Minister will change, and that he didn’t pick Hillary as a running mate because it would mean Bill would be in the White House too.

The impersonator looks like the same guy from an earlier post about an Obama impersonator in Japan.

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16 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - September 1, 2008 at 6:09 pm

Categories: Celebrity News, Japanese TV Tags: barack obama, blackface, japan

Andyroo

I’m amazed that he knew that Prime Minister Fukuda would resign and there would be a new prime minister. I wonder how he got that info. Probably just a lucky guess though.
Mister M

I dont live in the US, but I guess American people are tired of seen politicians who just want to make their life worse. Republicans have failed a lot regarding to the US Economy and other areas. Now McCain is the one make a new promiss to imporve the USA, but it is only a simple promiss because he will not be able to reconstruct the US Economy. Barack is another guy who will not make miracles for the US, but I believe that he will improve the relations with other countries in which now is terrible like Cuba, North Korea, Iran, Iraq, and so on…
Zanibas

The politician who will create semi-unity between the parties (although some might argue that’s creating a one-party system) has my vote =P.

But for now… I’ll just see what the actions of the next will do, each has equal pros and cons to me.
Sheriff D

Mister M:

Sorry, but you misunderstand American Foreign Policy (and unless something is about to change drastically in this next administration, I don’t expect anything to change) –

Republicans have always had the better Foreign Policy. Ask any international tradesman in the US and they will tell you the same thing.
Democrats have always strangled foreign trade in the US but opt for developing business within its own borders to “make believe” that things are going well for the US citizens, when the reality is that they’re just not being told what’s really going on outside its borders.

Kevin

The last 8 years of foreign policy in the US have been a complete disaster. I’m not sure how you can believe this is better than anything.

And this statement:

the reality is that they’re just not being told what’s really going on outside its borders.

applies to both Democrats and Republicans.
leitmotiv

“Republicans have always had the better Foreign Policy. Ask any international tradesman in the US….”

LOL thats delusional. Sure US trade may do well under murderous and dictatorial foreign policies, but what about promotion of supposed american values such as democracy, human rights, freedom of speech, etc? Why does one have to ask the obviously heavily biased opinion of an “international tradesman” in the US (whatever that is) to understand this? I think a far more realistic opinion of US foreign policy might come from one of the (predominantly) darker skinned residents of the various clients of US magnanimous and freedom-promoting foreign policy since WW2. In fact, these types of polls have been conducted and the opinions are significanly at odds with those of your international tradesman friends.

Gusuke

Yes, everything that is wrong in the world can be attributed to the actions of the United Statse. /rolls eyes

leitmotiv

Typical non-sequitur response….do you regularly watch Fox News by any chance?

Brian

Sheriff,

Obviously you don’t know the difference between Liberalism and Conservatism when it pertains to foreign matters. Conservatives base all foreign policy on military and might. Liberals base all foreign matters on discussion and diplomacy.

You can’t have both.

Military diplomacy=forcefulness
Liberal diplomacy=compromise

Foreign policy doesn’t relate to international business. What you’re referring to is free trade, which is what Republicans are in support of, which also greatly supports big businesses. Of course an international tradesman would side with the Republicans on that.

ダビ

It would have been funnier with a mock gaijin accent.
Troy

Wow he can spout the stupid Change montra of Obama. Doesn’t matter who wins, foreign policey will not change to any real extent nor will domestic policey. There is no significant difference between the two parties.
morningstar

The impersonator has no business going on TV to make comments about The Clintons.
zaciroth

I think this guy is amazing….if only he was saying things against obama lol
error on page

Obama and McCain both work for the same elite group. One happens to have a Muslim name yet be a frantic supporter of Israel while the other is an unstable Vietnam war traitor who went behind the back of Americans and collaborated with VC communists.

America under Bush have been a major catastrophy. Americans electing him not once but twice tells the rest of the world how derranged Americans are compared with other people from any other nation on earth except USA.

The American empire has come to an end and we will see the rise of a new empire from the east China. USA has such huge debts that the country is about to go bankrrupt. Once the Asian countries pull out their reserves from US the country will become a 3rd world broke country while EU’s strong economy will keep on getting stronger unlike USA.

Americans will then only have frentic religious fundamentlaism and “patriotism” to unite it’s already beaten people.
Brian

What’s with the polls? They’re heavily biased. Every time I check one of these polls, the top choice always has the most votes…I wonder why…
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