A new type of identity politics emerged this month that involves attacking the image of Hillary Clinton’s supporters and portraying them as “uncool.” Is it possible, though, that some of these uncool Clintonites featured in YouTube videos are nothing more than a few devious Obama backers masquerading as earnest [lame-ass] Hillary supporters?

Many pundits have observed that Obama is hipper than Clinton, but it takes a more nuanced argument bolstered by polling and demographic data to try to prove that by association, Clinton’s supporters are themselves un-hip. To the delight of many Obama supporters, though, a homemade music video is all it takes to “encapsulate the Hillary ethos,” as Wonkette put it. A YouTube video called “Hillary4U&Me” (below, left) was circulated widely last week, and it was generally positioned as the antithesis to the [much hipper] “Yes We Can” video that endorsed Obama. “Hillary4U&Me” seems like a Christian rock video from the ’90s, and it makes Clinton supporters seem un-savvy and remarkably uncool.

Earlier this week, another Hillary music video was circulated that’s basically a karaoke version of Making Our Dreams Come True (the theme from Laverne and Shirley), with a few words changed to make it a Clinton campaign song. The video is almost as embarrassingly bad as “Hillary4U&Me,” mostly because of the terrible song. (The video itself just looks like footage from various Clinton campaign ads.) In fact, the singing is so terrible — so off-key and falsettoey — that it seems unreal.

It has to be a joke, right?

Maybe. But could it be possible that it’s not a joke, and that it is instead a fake, created and planted by Obama supporters? (This is entering the realm of conspiracy theory, I know.) Considering the success of “Hillary4U&Me,” they’d have good reason to try to repeat. “Hillary4U&Me” seemed legit because it had an authentic homemade quality to it, and it featured probably about 100 dancers, whereas this other one has just a single, anonymous singer.

Judging by the YouTube comments section of Making Our Dreams Come True, though, it definitely appeals to some Clinton supporters (”Awesome! Hillary is the REAL DEAL!”) I have no way of finding out the story behind them, but when you see videos are as bad as these, it’s hard to keep from asking, “Is this for real?!”

After all, this Huckabee video is similarly terrible, but it’ll probably never get the same play: