So, I’ve never really understood why this dumb “Obama Girl” video made the rounds a few months ago, with various media scholars hootin’ and hollerin’ about how it was a fascinating new use of digital media or whatnot. It’s not, really, it’s just a bad song with awkward lyrics and a joke that isn’t all that funny — but, since it’s about a major political figure involved in a major political race and it’s on the single major video-sharing website, well, I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised that it’s garnered attention.

If you never saw it, here’s the video:

Yeah, okay, great. Nice try, but not terribly funny, move along, right? Well, actually, no.

Turns out Barack Obama is — several months after this video’s heyday — offended and upset by the video. Huh? Here are a couple choice quotes:

“I guess it’s too much to ask, but you do wish people would think about what impact their actions have on kids and families,” Obama said during the interview, held in the den of a supporter who just had hosted a campaign stop on her front lawn attended by about 120 people.

“This is part of the process of politics that can be difficult, (that) is making sure that your kids and your wife and your family are insulated from both things like this and what I suspect will be at some point some negative campaigning,” Obama said.

What the? He’s worrying about his family being insulated from this video and negative campaigning only garners a little mention at the end? Oh, dude, you’re gonna be in for a world of hurt soon, if you fear dumb little YouTube videos as threatening the integrity of your family.

In recent weeks, I’ve questioned Obama as a candidate — I just don’t think the guy’s close to being ready — and reactions like this show a surprisingly thin skin. Bill Clinton, for all his faults, would have handled a video like this with a laugh and a joke and, okay, maybe by trying to get the “Obama girl”‘s phone number. But Obama takes the road of victimization, and that’s not something you want to do when someone is making — for free, mind you — advertisements that get people excited about your campaign.