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Thursday, January 25, 2007

Randy Newman's got a new tune

I have to agree with Randy here. George W. Bush is the worst President we've ever had, but he's certainly not the worst "leader" ever to have existed on this planet. Gotta try to keep things in perspective, although it's hard when we have to hear and see this dolt practically every day.

I still wonder how in the world did this "greatest nation on earth" end up getting saddled with this spoiled frat-rat bully? Are we as Americans just too lazy to really give a damn about what happens, and gave him an opening? He lied and lied and lied along the campaign trail, and our compliant, complicit media went along with it, trashing both Gore and Kerry along the way. If we truly had a "liberal media" in this country, this would not have happened.

No one really expected Bush to steal his way into the White House. We didn't really expect the Supreme Court to go along with this clown. Bush's reign of error should be a warning sign that very powerful interests are loose in this country, and we have to remember that this nation was created for the people, of the people, and by the people, not the filthy spoiled rich. Or at least I hope not.

Oh yeah, Randy Newman has a new tune coming out...Thanks to my sister in Colorado for pointing me towards this one...


State of the Union: Another Take

By RANDY NEWMAN

Randy Newman, the singer, songwriter and composer, performed this song at Carnegie Hall in 2006. It will be released soon online. This is an abridged version.


A Few Words in Defense of Our Country
By Randy Newman

I’d like to say a few words
In defense of our country
Whose people aren’t bad nor are they mean
Now the leaders we have
While they’re the worst that we’ve had
Are hardly the worst this poor world has seen

Let’s turn history’s pages, shall we?

Take the Caesars for example
Why within the first few of them
They had split Gaul into three parts
Fed the Christians to the lions
And burned down the City
And one of ’em
Appointed his own horse Consul of the Empire
That’s like vice president or something
That’s not a very good example, is it?
But wait, here’s one, the Spanish Inquisition
They put people in a terrible position

I don’t even like to think about it
Well, sometimes I like to think about it


Just a few words in defense of our country
Whose time at the top
Could be coming to an end
Now we don’t want their love
And respect at this point is pretty much out of the question
But in times like these
We sure could use a friend

Hitler. Stalin.
Men who need no introduction
King Leopold of Belgium. That’s right.
Everyone thinks he’s so great
Well he owned The Congo
He tore it up too
He took the diamonds, he took the gold
He took the silver
Know what he left them with?
Malaria

A president once said,
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”
Now it seems like we’re supposed to be afraid
It’s patriotic in fact and color coded
And what are we supposed to be afraid of?
Why, of being afraid
That’s what terror means, doesn’t it?
That’s what it used to mean

The end of an empire is messy at best
And this empire is ending
Like all the rest
Like the Spanish Armada adrift on the sea
We’re adrift in the land of the brave
And the home of the free
Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye.

published in the NYT

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