"Crush on Obama" is an Internet viral video, first posted on YouTube in June 2007 featuring a young woman seductively singing of her love for then-U.S.

[2] On May 25, 2007, Ben Relles placed an ad on the online classified website, Craigslist, seeking a music video director.

[5] By the second day the American news media had taken notice of the video's growing popularity.

[6] When asked about the video by the Des Moines Register on June 18, 2007, Obama said, "It's just one more example of the fertile imagination of the Internet.

[9] Kauffman and Ettinger confirmed this during their June 15, 2007 appearance on Fox & Friends, where they said that the video was not made to support Barack Obama in his campaign but rather for fun.