On the third day, New York magazine's Amanda Dobbins called Crosson "he of the spot-on YouTube Obama impersonations", saying "he really goes in" during the video Il Quotidiano Italiano wrote that Crosson was "punctual as always" in his production of the video so quickly after the news event it was spoofing. "Alphacat, one of the most popular political Internet Webstars... has not missed an opportunity to mount a parody ad hoc for this historic event." The Moderate Voice expressed that "there have been some great spoofs of Obama in the past and this impersonator, Alphacat has been responsible for a good chunk of them. This new video has to be one of his best yet."
