This would be creepy to me even if it weren’t about Obama.
Almost every blog I’ve read today has mentioned this video of a bunch of Hollywood Democrats’ kids singing a song that could just as easily be a bunch of North Korean kids singing about Dear Leader.
Everyone is saying it’s creepy and it’s brainwashing and it’s not right.
All of that may be true, but do you know what my problem with it is? They’re children singing like they think they’re professionals.
I cannot bear the sight or sound of children singing in that particular way, that “trained” way. It drives me completely apeshit bonkers up the wall CRAZY.
I like the sound of a normal kid doing normal singing; no problem there. This isn’t really about kids per se but about fakery. And nothing sounds faker to me than a 10-year-old kid singing like she’s on Broadway. Maybe it’s because of that movie “Annie” that I saw when I was 9 and that gave me nightmares for days about filth and hunger and especially curly red clown wigs.
But okay, I suppose that’s not the MOST unpleasant thing about a video of kids being coached to sing about a community organizer-slash-senator as though he is the Savior of All Mankind. For one thing, the first kid singing doesn’t sound so much “trained” as “Eric Cartman”. For another thing, the lyrics:
We’re gonna spread happiness
We’re gonna spread freedom
Obama’s gonna change it
Obama’s gonna lead ‘emWe’re gonna change it
And rearrange it
We’re gonna change the world.Now’s the moment, lift each voice to sing
Sing with all your heart!
For our children, for our families,
Nations all joined as one.
Sing for joy and sing abundant peace,
Courage, justice, hope!
Sing together, hold each precious hand,
Lifting each other up;
Sing for vision, sing for unity,
Lifting our hearts to Sing!Yes we can
Lift each other up
In peace, in love, in hope
Change! Change!sing…vote
I just threw up in my mouth a little. Actually a lot.
That song reminds me of one thing and one thing only, and it ain’t hope or change. It’s church. Which I suppose is the exact idea because for today’s progressive leftist, there is no “church” anymore; there’s just Obama. He fulfills all the needs that they so derisively snark at religious people for when the religious get the same needs fulfilled by a deity.
Neither of which technique I can get behind myself, but it sure is fascinating to watch these people training their kids to worship a man while at the same time, odds are, they mock Christians for their blind faith and bible-clingin’. I guess the progressives think they’re evolved and enlightened because their clingin’ is all about a politician instead of an ancient deity, real or not.
The parents are either idiots, dupes or wanna-be whip-weilders.
AKA reactionary leftists.
September 30th, 2008 at 8:57 pmHey, Could Tailgunner Joe have been, you know, right?
September 30th, 2008 at 8:58 pmNations all joined as one?
How’s he gonna manage that one?
Oh, I forgot…it’s not about policies. It’s about ‘Hope!!’ and ‘Change!!’. So that’s all right, then.
September 30th, 2008 at 8:58 pmThat video was so creepy I couldn’t watch it all.
September 30th, 2008 at 8:59 pmChildren, can you say horripilation?
September 30th, 2008 at 9:01 pmTwo words, Wachl: Nailed It.
September 30th, 2008 at 9:03 pmCouldn’t watch it all. Shut it off at the second segment where it sounded like the children’s room at sunday school worshiping the messiah.
September 30th, 2008 at 9:05 pmHoly Fucking Dogshit!
I was hearing “Tomorrow Belongs to Me” in my head as these kids were singing those shitty lame white-ass songs. And there it is in that blog post.
I wish white folks would quit acting hip so the black folks will accept them. You ain’t hip so stop trying.
I know cause i’m black on the inside!
September 30th, 2008 at 9:13 pmDunno if you’ve read Liberal Fascism yet, but Goldberg had a lot to say about the religion-leftism connection.
They’re scary creepy people, they are.
September 30th, 2008 at 9:13 pmRush kept playing this today and it was totally freaking me out.
September 30th, 2008 at 9:17 pmJust remember this was a spontaneous event with spontaneous Obama flags and spontaneous memorized songs and someone was spontaneously able to do pro camera and editing work.
From Hot Air
Just a normal everyday spontaneous grassroots event.
September 30th, 2008 at 9:18 pmThis is disgusting.
Children shouldn’t have an opinion on presidential candidates. Their parents should be ashamed of themselves for pushing their personal beliefs on their spawn.
I would rather die in a vat of mushrooms than listen to a kid sing about something he/she knows nothing about. It’s like a kid singing about how much sex rocks his world.
Further, they can’t sing for shit.
September 30th, 2008 at 9:29 pmPlunger girl, you are wrong there. One of my deepest regrets in life is that I was 14 and too young to vote for Ronald Reagan for president: I had a very well-formed opinion that had absolutely nothing to do with my parents (democreeps, both), even though I was a child and unable to vote.
My youngest two children have an opinion regarding the current presidential race based on the concept of the continuation of the lifestyle they currently enjoy and the candidate whose values most align with that life-choice, and thus wish they could vote for that very reason. This does not mean I would use them as shills for that purpose. I am certain they would take umbrage with that statement.
Children as puppets is wrong; so is assuming that a child is uninformed and thus unable to form his/her own opinion separate from said child’s parent. It’s a parent’s job to educate and assist a child in forming his/her OWN opinions. Otherwise … dummies sitting on the lap of a ventriloquist.
September 30th, 2008 at 9:36 pmSorry, I don’t think I’m wrong about children having an opinion on presidential candidates, but I’m not going to delve into the topic. And those children aren’t 14.
September 30th, 2008 at 9:45 pmPlunger Girl:
Becs and the Short Man are 11 and 12. Divine Miss K is 21, and all three have their own opinions, entirely outside of my own. They always have, because Mr. M and I have provided information about both sides.
Do you have children?
EDIT: Nevermind. I read your most recent blog entry. Please don’t respond.
September 30th, 2008 at 9:49 pmI just can’t decide. Which is more disturbing to witness? These poor Obama Youthen singing their brainwashed little hearts out while doing their worshipful hand signs as instructed or the creepy-ass parents in the audience cheering this spectacle on?
It’s kinda like being asked which sight is more chilling, kindergardners at the Nuremberg rally or parents dutifully feeding their kids purple kool-aid while Jim Jones exhorts over the loudspeaker, “Let’s get gone, children…”
Utterly grotesque.
September 30th, 2008 at 10:04 pmDon’t insinuate that a person who doesn’t have children knows nothing about this topic–that’s absurd. It’s like saying a heterosexual person has no place voting on or discussing gay marriage.
A 21 year old hardly qualifies as a child. I don’t disagree that children should have their own opinions or that they’re incapable of them. A child should be a child. They only have that option for such a finite time. I personally believe a 12 year old has no place having a staunch political opinion. Should they know about the process and the topics? Absolutely.
Regardless, this is a pointless discussion. Everyone’s welcome to their own opinion regardless of whether or not they’ve reproduced.
September 30th, 2008 at 10:06 pmThis whole thing is so like Hitler Youth, it’s beyond creepy.
Take a look at this, please…
Understanding Obama: The Making of a Fuehrer.
This is a portrait of a clinical narcissist.
September 30th, 2008 at 10:11 pmUgh.
“We’re gonna change it
And rearrange it
We’re gonna change the world.”
Rearrange = redistribute wealth?
Perhaps we should just send this to Ahmadinejad (I totally had to look that up to spell it…) I’m sure his hardened heart will melt and we won’t have to worry about those nasty ol’ nukes anymore….
September 30th, 2008 at 10:15 pmI didn’t remotely insinuate that. I merely politely requested that you not respond to my question if you had children, because after reading your blog I knew you would get offended and believe I was denigrating your choice to not have any; I didn’t want to start a war over a mild disagreement.
Please don’t suggest I should stifle my 12-year-old’s opinions in order to keep him a child; he would never allow that, and I would not ask him to.
I did not say my 21 year old was a child. I was just offering facts regarding my experience with my children’s intellect/experience and their opinions formed as a result of such.
And I will reiterate you are definitely wrong to state that children should not have an opinion on the presidential candidates. They are inheriting the world; I prefer well-informed children and almost every child I have worked with for more than 20 years would be offended by the insinuation they were unable to have an opinion.
September 30th, 2008 at 10:21 pmI used to have low blood pressure, that was before I started reading this blog. Christ eating cornpone! I had a great night of painting and stuff then I come home to creepy zombie children singing and Steven Fooking Weber????
No amount of Budweiser can remedy this.
Palate cleansing suggestions anyone?
September 30th, 2008 at 10:22 pmI’m with 14 Karat on children having opinions. I’d be happier to see a child with an interest in the world around them then in High School Musical. I think it’s the parents’ job to instill that curiosity in them. Am I wrong?
Oh, and I’m child free myself.
September 30th, 2008 at 10:27 pmI’m kind of in the middle of 14K and Plunger Girl. I guess it would depend on the age of the child. My parents talked a little about politics to us because one was voting for Carter, (the shame), and the other for Reagan.
The problem for me was that I was too young to fully understand politics and the system and although they did teach us a little and I decided I liked Reagan better, (although WAY too young to vote), what it did to me was make me view one parent in a completely different light than I had ever viewed them before.
Of course, one parent went to church, making us go with them, and the other was agnostic and got to stay home so between the two: religion and politics, I was one extremely confused kid; not knowing which parent was right.
I’m not saying it would affect all kids this way but I think that in a sense, both are right. Of course teach your kids but maybe not so young because too young and most just aren’t going to get it. Besides, when I was a kid, I can’t count how many nights I went to bed in total and complete fear that any moment now we would all die from a nuclear war or we’d all starve to death in a depression or we’d run out of gas and I’d never know the thrill of driving a car, (ok, that last was shallow but I did think it)…things that maybe little kids really shouldn’t have keeping them up all night long.
As to this video: I just couldn’t bring myself to watch it. I saw a link about it on another blog earlier and I don’t like the idea any more than I do those who bring their kids to their protest marches. There’s something…I don’t know, “wrong” and “sick” don’t seem strong enough here, but along those lines.
September 30th, 2008 at 10:34 pmObama just had an ad on where he discussed what he meant by change. He would keep banks and oil companies from ripping people off. Real healthcare instead of talking about it. A president who could reach across the aisles to the opposition.
In other words, the Democrats had nothing to do with the financial crisis. Getting off foreign oil doesn’t mean drilling here, but renewables (which can also drive up food prices). I don’t know what he means by real healthcare. When had he ever reached across the aisle, in the Illinois and US legislature?
Drilling will bring more change now to gas prices than banking on technology that is unproven or requires tax breaks to make (ethanol). McCain reaches across the aisle more (much more than many conservatives like) in a proven way than Obama has even considered doing.
To me, McCain is the real change, not the phoney Obama.
September 30th, 2008 at 10:35 pmI’m not sure what’s creepier, the kids, or their smiling parents in the background. Actually, it doesn’t really look like the kids are into it that much, but just singing what they were told to sing. They look like typical kids at a typical elementary music recital.
The parents seem more creepy since they seem to actually be enjoying it. Which, quite frankly, is unbelieveable, because the song sucks. Personally, if I were an Obama supporter, I’d be embarassed (if an Obama supporter is capable of such a thing).
September 30th, 2008 at 10:35 pmPlunger Girl / 14K:
I think there’s a fair position betwixt the two y’all have staked out: the problem is the should/should not. To say a child “should” have an opinion on the election is to state by negative implication that something is amiss (either with the child or his/her rearing) if a child doesn’t have such an opinion. Likewise, as 14K’s response was meant to address, saying a child “should not” hold an opinion implies something negative in the opposite direction.
I think it’s fair to say that there are too many variables — the child, age, environment, etc — to argue the should/should not line.
Let’s focus on what we can agree on: turning a bunch of elementary students into a choir of the proverbial cherubim and seraphim for The One is beyond creepy.
September 30th, 2008 at 10:37 pmHoly christ! Rockin’ for Obama seems to be the flavor of the month…at least these kids seem less, um, zombie-like…still a freak show, though…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA_oPtsX2ew&feature=related
September 30th, 2008 at 10:41 pmThat video made me want to break something.
September 30th, 2008 at 10:41 pmAll — especially Lance:
I haven’t staked out a position that a child “should” have an opinion, I just disagreed with Plunger Girl that a child “shouldn’t.”
Read again.
I agree wholeheartedly that this video is disgusting and creeps the hell out of me, and commented as such, for those of you who are John Carpenter fans, here.
September 30th, 2008 at 10:43 pmYou forgot to mention that the main producer for this ‘Dear Leader Obama’ video is none other than the CEO of the NBC network, Jeff Zucker.
This is not the work of some fringe crazy group; this was produced by what is essentially the Obama Mind-Control Machine, the same people who decide on what goes in Hollywood, on the air, and in print.
This particular video, far more than Jack Cafferty’s rantings on CNN, is twenty kinds of creepy.
Yet Obama is turning out to be The Big Let-Down of ’08.
Obama kept insinuating that He is The Second Coming but every time we’ve held our breaths waiting for him to change water into wine, we’ve been disappointed. Obama kept telling us to ‘tune in next week!’ and he never delivers, the miracle never comes. There is nothing there.
Obama’s has a problem with clarity. I have systematically studied both his autobiographies and I still don’t know what kind of man I’m dealing with. When he was first showcased on TV, my interest was aroused. I used to find Obama enigmatic, but now he just comes off as vacuous, empty.
September 30th, 2008 at 10:46 pmObama’s two books address the questions of “Journey of Discovery to Where?” and “Who Am I?” We can all relate to such pondering. But Obama does not give us an answer. If he has found the answer since publishing those two books two years ago then he hasn’t told us yet.
McCain has been on a longer and harder personal journey. There can be nothing more extreme than surviving daily torture for five years. Can you imagine that? To be beaten day-in and day-out, starved, your hands and legs bound by chains? McCain already knows what he can take, and humbly knows where he breaks. Every man and woman has a breaking point. It is very human. McCain already knows his, even though he held out as long as he could.
What trials or stories of human devastation has Obama endured? I can’t imagine being Black in America is an easy thing. But Obama was raised in Polynesia by white grandparents and then went on to Harvard, community service, the Senate, and now the presidency. Obama’s journey seems to have been very easy. His skin color opened all the right doors for him instead of slamming them shut. Obama didn’t march against segregation. Obama didn’t fight for affirmative action. He planted no tree. He carried no water for that tree. Obama has just come along and picked the fruits. That is easy street. This is not a great American story. This is not a triumph of will over adversity. This is a story of baby-boomer entitlement. This is the story of the yuppy next door. These stories are a dime a dozen on aisle 3 at Whole Foods.
You may agree or disagree with McCain but at least you know where he stands. He has a long track record to judge him by. McCain has a long list of hits and misses. He has made mistakes (like us all) but that is because he had been trying to do things and change things all his life. Obama markets himself as the candidate with an unblemished record, but that is only because he doesn’t have a record. We have nothing to judge Obama by. All he gives us is his word and we are supposed to put all our trust in his future promises. But these promises keep changing: Obama has produced two contradictory promises on Iraq, two contradictory promises on NAFTA, and two contradictory promises on taxes. Are we supposed to judge him by the original promise he made, or by his most recent one? The candidate who flows with the changing winds of polls is the lightweight. That much we know.
I feel very embarrassed for buying into the Obama phenomena. Maybe now that the weather is changing I see things in a new light. I feel sheepish for falling for the marketing pitch. Where do I go to get a refund?
I think that many voters like me are looking for clarity in our next president. I feel I know what kind of man McCain is, and that I can trust him. McCain gets my vote.
I thought this was the worst thing I’d seen today, but then I watched the Daily Show and heard Bill Maher have a good yuck with Jon about us stoopid Christians. But hey, at least he admitted that the America he lives in, the one he wants to live in, is a “progressive European nation” that keeps getting “strangled before it can be born” by the “Sarah Palins of this world.” Oh, the other America, the one we live in (the one with the guns and bibles and clingin’), he refers to that one as “stupid redneck America” and the audience went wild!! And Jon nearly pissed himself he thought it was just SOOO FUNNNY!
The video isn’t up yet, but look for it tomorrow. Can you imagine one of us on that show mocking these kids and their parents and talking about how the America we want to live in keeps getting “strangled” by people like them?
I live in Charlotte, and thousands of Wachovia employees are losing their jobs today, but Bill Maher not only still has his, he probably made more delivering that little tirade than most of us make in a year.
September 30th, 2008 at 10:48 pmOk. I figured if others here were brave enough to watch it, I would have to be brave as well. So I got to 1:22 before I couldn’t take it anymore.
My thoughts mirrored Jason when he said this:
My very first thought in my mind while watching that was some old footage played on the History Channel one time about the indoctrination of youths in Nazi time.
I find this to be incredibly disturbing in so many ways.
September 30th, 2008 at 10:51 pmPersonally, I have no problem with children having political opinions. I admired Reagan when I was only 10 years old. And, I would expect most parents to teach their children their values, which would likely include politics.
However, singing about a politician is pretty creepy, even when adults do it. Adults making kids do it is that much creepier. I mean, this is the U.S. We should not be worshipping politicians. That’s third-world, tin-pot dictator crap.
Obama’s just a politician. And, quite frankly (at least in my opinion), not a particularly accomplished or impressive one at that.
September 30th, 2008 at 10:52 pmIf we must listen to kids singing, then I nominate these girls
September 30th, 2008 at 11:05 pmI’ve viewed this twice today and (shudder) it reminds me of children singing for Mao, singing for Hitler, and singing for the Dear Leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-Il.
This is one of the creepiest things I’ve seen coming out of this election, and that is saying a lot!
September 30th, 2008 at 11:09 pmObama’s just a politician.
September 30th, 2008 at 11:15 pmJUST a politician? That’s like saying that someone is JUST a demon or JUST the anti-christ. For the life of me, I can’t think of any scarier monster than a politician. They’ve killed more people per capita than Dracula or Godzilla could have ever dreamed of doing in.
When I was 7, we use to sing, “My bologna has a first name, it’s J-I-M-M-Y” Though it was an opinion, it wasn’t exactly my own. Yet, I still think the song was appropriate, and neither my parents or music teacher taught me the song. However, I find it more reasonable that kids spontaneously modify a popular commercial jingle than make up a totally original song and get it produced by Hollywood professionals.
September 30th, 2008 at 11:19 pmLeland,
You just kicked loose something from the darkest recesses of my memory banks!
No adult taught me that! Sitting in a blazing hot station wagon with five screaming siblings in the endless gas line always brought that particular jump rope ditty to mind. It didn’t matter if you were a child (I was 10 during the worst of it) — any breathing entity with a brain in its head suffered and hoped for better alongside the adults in the horrific recession/economic crisis with the misery index at an all-time high of nearly 22% — I actually got smacked once for singing that song in front of the democrazies who created and were raising me [shudder].
OMG! Thanks, Leland (I think) …
September 30th, 2008 at 11:33 pmJUST a politician? That’s like saying that someone is JUST a demon or JUST the anti-christ.
Ok, fair enough. But I still think worshipping one is ridiculous. Or at least, if you’re going to worship one, wait until after he’s actually done something.
September 30th, 2008 at 11:40 pmre ‘using’ the kids…
Another difference between us and them. We know it’s an adult’s job to protect children from adult things. Libs think -everything- is political first. Kids = useful tools.
September 30th, 2008 at 11:49 pmI always thought it was profoundly RIGHT that the movie ANNIE was soooooooo creepy, since the comic strip it was based on (Little Orphan Annie) was arguably the creepiest thing ever printed in a sunday color supplement. Ugly art, tiresome characters, and deadly dull writing ….. shudder!
As for the video; what do you expect? This is what passes for thought in the Democrat Party under the bunch of far left political hacks that have hijacked it since 1968. The kind of fools who think that the 1968 protesters in Chicago represented something POSITIVE; something worth remembering and emulating. As opposed to being a bunch of obviously underspanked spoiled white brats.
September 30th, 2008 at 11:49 pmI can’t resist tossing in my coin on the issue of children having political opinions.
Some kids naturally will, others won’t. It depends a lot on their nature and their interests, I think. What matters is that the adults in any given child’s life not 1) squish dissenting views, or 2) brainwash the kid.
This strikes a chord with me, but again, whether or not a kid reacts that way depends a lot on the personality of the child. I was a naturally anxious child who would get frightened by the snippets of conversations and news broadcasts that I overheard but didn’t understand. The only way to ease my mind was to explain things to me so I could understand the context of the information I’d heard. The result was that I had a much greater understanding of the politics of the world than most children my age. Inevitably then, I had opinions on political stuff. I would have been enormously insulted to be told I shouldn’t have an opinion because I was just a child. Whether or not my opinions were particularly valid is another issue, but they were mine and I came to them on my own.
Maybe, ideally, children should not trouble themselves about the larger issues of the world. There is the desire to let children be children, and therefore innocent. But I don’t believe that means it’s inappropriate for a child to have his own views about political matters.
October 1st, 2008 at 12:28 amCult of Personality.
This is some freaky ass stuff, right from NBC no less. It’s…
Okay I just can’t think about it anymore. Mmmm scotch glug glug glug glug
October 1st, 2008 at 12:31 amI don’t want “nations all joined as one.” Imagine paying taxes for what’s going on over in England or France.
And if these kids were on my lawn singing I’d put the hose on them.
October 1st, 2008 at 12:34 amJason,
As did I, which of course tells me we must be close to the same age. But it wasn’t until I was 14 and an election cycle came around that my admiration was solidified to the point of actually longing for the ability to cancel out the vote of a liberal with my devious/rebellious little “screw you 60s era hippie parental units” mentality.
Heh.
The Monster,
Seconded. Those voices could almost put the least patriotic set of nasolacrimal ducts into hyperdrive.
I’m definitely eye wiping and nose honking after that.
WOW! Thank you.
And … creepy, indeed.
October 1st, 2008 at 12:51 amAnd they’ve made the video private. Hope someone got a copy of it somewhere, though I doubt I really want to watch it.
From youtube:
“This is a private video. If you have been sent this video, please make sure you accept the sender’s friend request. ”
Hmm, original Obama kids vid with nazi german singing overlayed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1L4i523s88&feature=related
October 1st, 2008 at 2:19 amI’ve been reading about this all day.. and getting pissed off and a little worried.
Then I remembered the late 70s.. all the canned food and ammo we had.. and how we prepared for our own survival.
I also remembered I need to clean my shotgun and there’s some whiskey left.
Now I feel better.
October 1st, 2008 at 3:01 amPfffttt, Y’all are stoopid. Everyone loves children. Children love Obama. Therefore everyone will love Obama if children sing.
Is it just me or is anyone else having a Willy Wonka moment, or at best a Chitty Chitty Bang Bang flashback when you hear about Obama?
October 1st, 2008 at 5:36 amAllen: No, children love Gamera!
October 1st, 2008 at 5:46 amChildren singing about their favorite presidential candidate is little different than feminists demanding “equality” but who run screaming from the chance to register for the draft.
19 hours without sleep. I’m surprised I can even spell.
October 1st, 2008 at 5:46 amjana,
You still spelled it wrong, it’s Ahmadinnerjacket.
(I keed, I keed)
October 1st, 2008 at 6:32 amWell puke on a choir of brainwashed Bratomatons, the link didn’t work for me. Video removed. WTF? Just as well. I don’t need to be any more irritated than I already am.
October 1st, 2008 at 6:43 am14K…your demotivator…that’s it, right there. THAT’S the image that does better than my words to describe what I felt while watching that video.
October 1st, 2008 at 6:53 amApparently Obama’s Brown Shirts have cleansed YouTube of the video. Has anyone saved a copy?
October 1st, 2008 at 7:15 amThe video has been pulled from You-tube.
It was so creepy it hurt the Dear Leader so they pulled it.
Anone got a copy?
October 1st, 2008 at 7:21 amRemember - to a Liberal, Government is Religion.
October 1st, 2008 at 7:24 amRachel, I think I’ve read in previous posts that you are a bit reluctant sometimes to write about politics. I just wanted to say that I’m very glad you are doing more of it lately! Your writing style hits the perfect combination of yeah-damn-right and crack-me-up that makes you a delight to read. (Of course, it helps that I agree with nearly every little thing you say…) Your blog is a daily stop for me; the only “regular person” blog I follow. Big back-pats: you are a very cool woman.
October 1st, 2008 at 7:45 amAiiieeeee!!! My eyes, my ears… that is an obamination.
But thanks to Monster for providing the cure
October 1st, 2008 at 7:57 amFor those who haven’t seen it, and are fresh out of syrup of ipecac, HERE is a copy.
October 1st, 2008 at 8:00 amNick - They pulled the clip because they are almost ready to issue the second video in the series. It’s a bunch of children on a farm chanting ‘Four legs good/Two legs bad’.
October 1st, 2008 at 8:04 amI thought some of those kids were kinda hot.
Is that wrong?
I hope Bill Maher comes down south to my town in NC and starts running his mouth about G-d-fearing folk.
We’re gonna shoot selzter down his pants for starters, and then shave that huge hubbard squash he calls a nose.
October 1st, 2008 at 8:05 amChange we can make-believe in.
October 1st, 2008 at 8:40 amWell, I’m no lyricist and certainly not a 60’s folkie, but here’s my attempt. Afterwards I may need me a couple of shots of Jack, iff’n you know whats I mean.
Where have all the Liberals gone
Praising Mao everyone
Where have all the Liberals gone
Praising Che everyone
Where have all the Liberals gone
Gone to Asshats everyone
When will they ever learn
When will they ever learn
Where have all the Asshats gone
October 1st, 2008 at 8:44 amGone to Obama everyone
Where have all the Asshats gone
Gone to Obama everyone
Where have all the Asshats gone
Gone to toke another bong
When will they ever learn
When will they ever learn
Evening news schedule: All channels, all times
Date: April 15, 2009
News item: “Chairman Obama leads the happy workers in song”
News item: “Large parade with happy workers carrying banners demanding higher taxes”
News item: “Trial of Republicans continues. Executions scheduled for tomorrow.”
October 1st, 2008 at 8:49 amI think this is like those perverted kiddie model fashion shows. It seemed to me to be a distinct lack of emotion from those kids. In a “I’m going to get this right the first time so I can go back to playing way”. That wasn’t something they were proud of coming up with themselves, that was a chore they had to perform to Mommy Dearest’s satisfaction. All so Mommy could prove her kids were just as cute as Piper Palin
October 1st, 2008 at 8:53 amI’ve been talking about this with some friends and we’ve come to the conclusion that this is like the premies of Guru Maharaj Ji, or Filipino kids with Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos. It’s like “reject Christ and follow the True Messiah, 0bama!” Can you imagine the utter outrage that would come from the Left if it were McCain they were singing about? Or the Left’s latest bete noire, SARAH PALIN?
October 1st, 2008 at 9:09 amThey could have at least sung Chicago’s “Dialogue (I and II).” The lyrics are marginally better and it has that bitchen horn riff. It’s not like NBC couldn’t afford the royalties; nor that the band would turn it down, considering they once dedicated an album to “supporting the revolution, in all its forms,” and used “The whole world’s watching” chant from the ‘68 DNC protests as the intro to a song.
October 1st, 2008 at 9:30 amI am SOO waiting for South Park to parody the video!
October 1st, 2008 at 9:33 am“Nick - They pulled the clip because they are almost ready to issue the second video in the series. It’s a bunch of children on a farm chanting ‘Four legs good/Two legs bad’.”
Snowdog,
Do the kiddies then get marched into the slaughterhouse and reduced to chops and tenderloins?
Not that I think Obama is that inept, but the PETA fools are CERTAINLY that fanatic and stupid, as are a lot of Obama-Rama-Ding-Dong’s Leftwing TWit allies.
October 1st, 2008 at 9:43 amNow, it was actually written for Cabaret, but its simulation is creepily true to its original intent, and maybe a little too similar to the lyrics in the video mentioned above:
The sun on the meadow is summery warm.
The stag in the forest runs free.
But gather together to greet the storm.
Tomorrow belongs to me.
The branch of the linden is leafy and green,
The Rhine gives its gold to the sea.
But somewhere a glory awaits unseen.
Tomorrow belongs to me.
The babe in his cradle is closing his eyes
The blossom embraces the bee.
But soon, says a whisper, “Arise, arise,
Tomorrow belongs to me”
Oh Fatherland, Fatherland, show us the sign
October 1st, 2008 at 9:44 amYour children have waited to see.
The morning will come when the world is mine.
Tomorrow belongs to me!
Somebody redid the video with new footage reflecting the Dear Leader theme.
October 1st, 2008 at 9:46 am“That video was so creepy I couldn’t watch it all”
me either.
October 1st, 2008 at 9:53 am“I am SOO waiting for South Park to parody the video!”
along with Family Guy,with Stewie as the Messiah
October 1st, 2008 at 9:54 amCaught this thing yesterday. I was mucho surprised when it didn’t end with the Horst Wessel Lied.
In the words of the immortal Dorothy Parker: “Tonstant Weader Fwowed Up.”
October 1st, 2008 at 9:54 am“News item: “Trial of Republicans continues. Executions scheduled for tomorrow.”
THATS why the rise of radical leftism has been spurring increased ammunition sales among non leftists.
October 1st, 2008 at 9:55 am14K, that demotivator is perfect.
Short story…
I remember sitting in a restaurant with a large group of friends and their kids. My oldest was 11 at the time. His buddy plunked himself down in the chair, picked up a bottle of Heinz ketchup, and shot this question at my son: “So. Are you a Democrat or a Republican?” Silence fell. The adults at the table, amused by kids talking politics, shut up and leaned in for the answer. My son coolly answered, “Neither. I’m a sheepdog.”
OMFG. I just about transcended to the heavens with pride. My son is a sheepdog.
I should’ve sent that anecdote to Whittle a long time ago…
October 1st, 2008 at 9:56 am“And if these kids were on my lawn singing I’d put the hose on them”
scrwew that.I’ve got no tresspassing signs posted prominently all over my property.I’d personally prosecute every last parent of these little hitler youths.
October 1st, 2008 at 9:58 am“Is it just me or is anyone else having a Willy Wonka moment, or at best a Chitty Chitty Bang Bang flashback when you hear about Obama?”
more like a Lord of the Flies moment
October 1st, 2008 at 9:59 amI’m telling you we are screwed.
If Obama wasn’t going to win before the financial crisis he will now. People in the US are still blaming republicans for everything.
So we’re going to get this kind of goofy shit for 4 years. This crap is going to be normal. And when he gets elected nobody will have an excuse short of “don’t blame me I voted for”.
And republicans won’t be able to block 90% of what he wants to do. After all, he hasn’t exactly made a secret of what a leftoid whacko he is, has he? Anyone that paid attention knows what he wants to do.
So we’re going to get 2-4 extreme leftoid SCOTUS appointments (did you know a lot of people on the left think Ginsberg is “too right-wing”?). That will mean gun rights are in serious jeopardy, abortion on demand will go on (and we’ll start paying for it with tax dollars). The whole leftoid dream list will come up one at a time with a Dem majority in both houses and president. National health care. Universal preschool. Higher taxes. And on. And on. And on.
The only question is how long it will take for average people to glom onto what’s going on and how much damage can be done in the meantime.
This is shaping up to be an ugly 4 (8?!?) years.
October 1st, 2008 at 10:02 amDaveW, not only that, but the media, as the newly anointed Ministry of Information for an Obama Administration, will propagandize information until we the people have no real idea of what is going on.
Obama will control the flow of information in this country, since the media, by default, cannot allow anything negative (read: honest) about Obama’s decisions to be presented to the public. They will need to protect their choice, because it is through their tireless efforts that Obama will get elected.
Talk radio will succumb to the Fairness Doctrine and Internet blogs, such as Rachel’s, will be forcibly shut down for “hate speech.” That’s not too extreme - check out the Truth Squads in Missouri to see that we are already there.
Count on it.
I’ve said it before: Fuck Obama and anyone who votes for him. And fuck Oprah for good measure - Oprah and her creepy, religious proclamation of The One.
October 1st, 2008 at 10:09 amObama loves me, this I know,
For the TV tells me so.
Little ones to Him belong;
They are weak but He is strong.
Obama loves me,
October 1st, 2008 at 10:12 amObama loves me,
Obama loves me,
The TV tells me so.
Where is your picture of Sunny with her paws over her ears?
October 1st, 2008 at 10:18 amAnother short story…
My entire extended family had evacuated for Hurricane Ike. My family and I stayed here in Houston (we live further south by Galveston), my sis and her fam spent a few weeks in our home town in Wisconsin, and my folks evacuated to Minnesota to visit extended family.
My entire extended Minnesotan family are old-fashioned, generational Democrats. I come from farmer stock - ’nuff said. Politics is a topical non-starter, obviously, when we’re all together.
I’ve been feeling (slightly) bad about saying “Fuck Obama and anyone who votes for him” because I thought my entire extended family was going to be Just. That. Stupid. I am happy to report that my folks returned from their evac bearing the happy tidings that my entire extended family - aunts, uncles, cousins, all - has (finally) wised up. They will no way, no how vote for Obama. I am greatly relieved that they won’t be part of bringing our nation to its knees under socialism.
October 1st, 2008 at 10:19 amJust wait until all children are required to sing this song every day at school. Unlike the Pledge of Allegiance, participation will be mandatory.
Redhead Infidel said:
Not to be too crude, but should anyone try to shut down my blog as “Hate Speech”, my response will be to tell them to suck my d*ck. I expect many others to respond the exact same way. Also, I would hope that the populace hasn’t become so complacent that we’d all just submit to the reeducation, but rather light the torches and sharpen the pitchforks.
I’ve been saying for years that I expected this country to hit rock bottom, sooner or later. Truthfully, I was hoping for sooner because I wanted to find out if this country still had the stomach to fight against a vast, centralized, in every aspect of your life nanny state government. Much like tossing a frog into hot water, we’d-hopefully- revolt and take back our country. Right now, though, with Pravda having relocated to America, I’m unconvinced what will happen.
One final thought: I remember Barry’s comments about “mandatory volunteerism” and I remember thinking that I would give the finger to anyone who tried to forcibly conscript my children into servitude. Now I’m thinking that I might need a more forceful response to such bullshit.
October 1st, 2008 at 10:20 amOK, another comment at 10:19 swallowed by Akismet…
…and another one at 10:26.
I think I’m posting too soon. You would think 10 minutes is enough time between comments, but maybe not.
October 1st, 2008 at 10:21 amI don’t think you’ll have much choice in the matter. Your host will be pressured into removing “hate speech” blogs, not you. If you’re hosting your own server, then your ISP will be forced to shut down your connection. And it won’t be like the government will have to notice your specific blog to do so, you’ll be part of a broader category. We’ll all be “Wrong Thinkers” in a socialist land.
October 1st, 2008 at 10:26 amActually all of us parents can seem petty creepy when our children perform, no matter how much they suck. (Doubly so for my grandkids). I couldn’t decide if that was the proud parent look or the mesmerized by thoughts of the OB1 look.
October 1st, 2008 at 10:35 amY’all need to read: Understanding Obama: The Making of a Fuhrer.
Here’s an excerpt:
October 1st, 2008 at 10:38 amReading Andy McCarthy’s column about Obama’s Stalinist tactics would be a good idea as well.
October 1st, 2008 at 10:40 amRI:
Could it be your name causing the constant backup? I mean, think of the ginger kids thing …
Kidding. I’ve been caught in moderation responding with your whole name before, which is why I shorten it to RI or Redhead.
Just a theory.
October 1st, 2008 at 10:41 amC. S. P. Schofield Says:
Snowdog,
Do the kiddies then get marched into the slaughterhouse and reduced to chops and tenderloins?
Not chops and tenderloins (but it’s not a bad idea). No, they get sent to the Soylent Corporation factory. Look for the green wafers, coming soon to a store near you.
October 1st, 2008 at 10:42 amThat’s another quote from the article I linked above, and I had another short story about this…
My sister-in-law is an obsessive, anal-retentive, control freak lawyer. She is Harvard-educated, sits on the Harvard Law Review, and is about as liberal as all that would imply. She intimidates the hell out of everyone that meets her.
She told my mother-in-law that she went to an Obama rally just to “see for herself” what he was really like. I won’t bore you with her worship but suffice it to say that she said that she will surely vote for Obama, because she “caught his eye, and they looked at each other for a moment, and she FELT his sincerity and passion, and it THRILLED her to her soul.” I kid you not. That hard-nosed attorney said that, almost verbatim.
He thrilled her soul.
Now don’t that make you throw up in yer mouth a little bit?
October 1st, 2008 at 11:02 am
October 1st, 2008 at 11:03 am14K, that’s funny.
Ginger kids. heh
So it might be my name? I wonder…maybe being an infidel is cause for moderation.
I’ll try posting this with just RI to see if it works (since my previous comment at 11:02 was moderated too).
UPDATE: Nope, didn’t work. And now my 11:02 comment is gone for good - completely erased - not even showing up in mod.
*sigh*
October 1st, 2008 at 11:06 amReminds me of Hitler Youth, actually.
Yep, sounds familiar.
October 1st, 2008 at 11:11 amAnd THANK YOU, Wachl.
Now I can’t get “The sun’ll come up …tomorrow” out of my head.
October 1st, 2008 at 11:13 amThere has got to be someone (much smarter than me) who can mash these 2 videos together or overlay the singing of “Tomorow Belongs To Me” on the “All praise Obama” song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdM8PDu6VMg
October 1st, 2008 at 11:37 amHere’s a creepy mix, My Awesome Mixed Tape #6 …
October 1st, 2008 at 11:50 am14k: Wow. Just freakin’ wow. Too right, both on demotivators and that mix.
October 1st, 2008 at 12:00 pmWow, RI, I think that if I felt such OOOOOOOOH-ness from a politician, like your sister-in-law felt when she made glorious eye contact with Obama, I’d find that alarming, not devotion-inspiring.
But that’s just me. And I’m odd.
October 1st, 2008 at 12:33 pmSorry, Redhead, I was hoping that might help …
October 1st, 2008 at 12:40 pmGinger vibes. Definitely! : )
Yeah, you’d think, right?
When such a hard bitch swoons like a groupie when making eye contact with The Messiah, it’s terribly disturbing. A red flag should’ve gone up for her. But let’s not forget that Obama supporters are NOT thinking, they are FEELING. And my sister-in-law has lost her mind.
Bleh.
October 1st, 2008 at 12:55 pmHEY! I’ve got to wade through 80 comments before getting to a single “F@ck Oprah?” Buddha on a biscuit, that really should appear in the first 10 at least.
As to the subject at hand: I first thought, “How many of these kids are just mouthing the words of their contemporaries, going along with the crowd because everyone they know agrees with them, having never really given or been able to give consious thought to the consequences of their position?” Then I thought: “Probably the same percentage as their parents.”
Oh, and F@ck Oprah (with Zucker).
October 1st, 2008 at 1:35 pm“Children of the ACORN,” OMFG, that’s hilarious!
October 1st, 2008 at 3:40 pmRachel, I don’t get your gripe about “professional”. I’ve heard lots of children’s choirs better than this one. They did make some attempt at blend and intonation. (Would you rather they sang out of tune?) That’s the scary thing about it…it was planned, and rehearsed, and these kids either did it in school (which is REALLY scary) or else their moms put ‘em in the SUV and ferried them to rehearsals.
Kids don’t generally have mature political opinions. They get them from parents or peers. I got in trouble for scratching “Goldwater is a fart” on the back of a school bus seat in 1964. But there’s a difference between individual and self-willed parroting of a line, and being organized into the Obamajugend-chor. Kids shouldn’t be pimped into political prostitution.
October 1st, 2008 at 5:05 pmWouldn’t be the first time the Obama campaign reminded someone of Hitler.
October 1st, 2008 at 5:26 pmActually, it reminds me of an scene from “Rock and Rule,” where our heroes have been drugged into watching Mok’s old holovid -
Triumph!
Triumph of the power
Truimph of the glory of me!
Triumph!
Triumph of the power,
The power and the glory of me!
It’s like the National Anthem of Nihilism. In a movie in which very little was subtle, that was possibly the most effective bit. (And a great little snippet of a song by Lou Reed.)
Hope you can change in!
October 1st, 2008 at 6:12 pmIs that Bill Ayers playing the flute?
October 1st, 2008 at 9:28 pmDead thread but thought I would post a link to Reason’s remix of this kids singing obama’s praises
with it using clips of North Korea propaganda.
The original was very creepy.
OBAMA KIDS: SING FOR CHANGE (PYONGYANG REMIX)
It is only 2 minutes long
October 2nd, 2008 at 8:35 am