Barack Roll is a popular parody video created by Hugh Atkin of the Rickrolling meme involving US Presidential candidate Barack Obama, entitled "Barack Roll", which has been watched over 2.6 million times since August 30, 2008. The video consists of clips of Obama dancing on Ellen Degeneres talk show. Instead of the actual audio from the Ellen segment the video uses "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley.
A follow-up video shows John McCain getting Barack rolled at the Republican National Convention; though it never happened - the "Barack Roll" image was displayed on the giant blue screen that was behind John McCain during his speech, and the video was pieced together from footage of the event.
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