Until a few days ago I had never heard of “Obama Girl.” I knew that Barack Obama has a wife and a couple of daughters, and if you’d have asked me, I would have guessed that one of them must be “Obama Girl.” Wrong again. This momentous political-cultural phenomenon had completely passed me by.
This video debuted on YouTube back in June, and I recently became the 5,333,341st person to watch it, which tells you how oblivious I’ve gotten in terms of what’s happening in popular culture. If you’re as out of it as I seem to be, as a public service here and here and here and here and here and here are some catch-up materials.