We guessed from his first campaign ad that President Obama was going to be vocal about clean energy this election, but we didn’t realize he was going to go full-on Green:

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I saw someone refer to this as Obama’s Bill Clinton saxophone moment, but let’s be real: The saxophone thing was Bill Clinton’s Obama Al Green moment retroactively.

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