President Obama held a fundraiser in San Francisco yesterday, and, would you believe it, some people don’t like the fact that he hasn’t honored his campaign promises! Slow-working security guys failed to wrangle a group of protestors at the $5,000 a plate gig, and they were able to complete a protest song. “That was a nice song,” the illegal-prison president responded. Nice in that he will stop violating civil liberties and such? No.
“You guys have much better voices than I have,” Obama continued. Aww, don’t worry, Obama. Ask your mom to call up that Fat Usher guy at Ark Music Factory and he’ll autotune you! You can even wear your little pirate costume!
Seven a.m., waking up in the morning
Gotta be fresh, gotta go downstairs
Gotta have my bowl, gotta bomb Libya
Seein’ everything, the Change is goin’
Tickin’ on and on, everybody’s rushin’
Gotta get down to San Fran
Gotta catch my plane, I see my friends (My friends)It’s Thursday, Thursday
Gotta fundraise on Thursday
Everybody’s lookin’ forward to the election, election
Thursday, Thursday
John Ensign resigns on Thursday
Everybody’s lookin’ forward to the election
Instead of knocking out the power ballad on stage, though, Obama presumably continued on with his speaking and stuff (missing the opportunity to make a terrible viral video and thus LOSING RE-ELECTION).
Here are the very expensive lyrics the protestors were apparently able to get out:
Dear Mr. President we honor you today sir / Each of us brought you $5,000 / It takes a lot of Benjamin’s to run a campaign/ I paid my dues, where’s our change?/ We’ll vote for you in 2012, yes that’s true/Look at the Republicans – what else can we do/Even though we don’t know if we’ll retain our liberties/In what you seem content to call a free society/Yes it’s true that Terry Jones is legally free/To burn a people’s holy book in shameful effigy/ But at another location in this country/Alone in a 6×12 cell sits Bradley/23 hours a day and night/The 5th and 8th Amendments say this kind of thing isn’t right/We paid our dues, where’s our change?
Good work! Obama will now pay a visit to Brad Manning and personally brand these words on his naked body, for national security. [Global BC via Daily Intel]
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"President Obama held a fundraiser in San Francisco yesterday, and, would you believe it, some people don’t like the fact that he hasn’t honored his campaign promises! "
I always thought campaign promises were optional, I'm still waiting for "compassionate conservatism" to take hold.
For that, they send in Kiss to perform.
It has taken hold, silly! The compassionate part is the smiles as they work their hardest to dismantle the government and kill the poor.
This is an excellent example of why conservatives hate liberals.
Harmony?
Almost as bad as the Karl Rove rap.
Conservatives hate liberals because empathy is ghey.
Nah, this is why conservatives laugh at liberals and stuff them in lockers. They hate them when they get all wild eyed and hold up crazy signs and get themselves killed by the National Guard (WASTING AMMO, DAGGONE IT)
i don't know about conservatives, but this is why I hate liberals.
I know. If that'd had been a Bush fundraiser, the security detail would have beat the shit out of those women before they finished the song to a crowd roaring furiously in approval at said beating.
$5k a plate just to bitch about Bradley Manning? There's not anything else more important to warble about to him in person? I mean, you can keep Manning in for the chorus or something. But how about a rousing fight song to use his balls more often like when he was "off mic" regarding sweet, sweet, dreamy Paul Ryan's plan to crush the middle class?
Reminiscent of Sublime's "What I Got", I have to assume the band's reunion isn't going so well, they're hard up for gigs, so they busked at the President's event.
i bet he'll have them sent to sing sing.
I say we put Gadhaffi in a cell in Quantico and let Bradley Manning rule Libya.
Life must be so hard when you can afford a $5K/plate event…
This shit was probably funded by all the little people who've donated the the Bradley Manning Defense Fund. What else are they gonna spend it on?
You mean you don't get any PayPal benefits under Solitary Confinement?
Did you see what happened to our comments there? Seems talk of artificially enhanced or deflated pees is taboo.
Probably just missed the Koch Sucker Cramps: Secret band that wears "Atlas Shrugged" gear, but the Earth is a giant eyeball. Oooooooo!
The Book of Manning.
So, does Bammerz return the multiple $5,000 contributions now? Or does he say, "Suckaz!" and keep the money? I hope there's some follow-up to that.
what would this country be like If everyone kept their campaign promises ?
Well at least they spared the cow and the dog this time. The Negro? Not so much.
Typical. The protesters concede at the outset they despite his broken promises, they'll still vote for Obama cause they got no place else to go. Nothing folds like a Democrat.
It really is all quite disappointing isn't it? Beck and the others kicked-off their "defeat Obama" campaign the day after the election with the catch phrase "take back America" and yet Obama has basically let them have the America they've always had with not even a convincing effort at changing things. Elections have consequences?…um, apparently not.
I'm union, part of those groups that gave a measly 400 million in 2008, we're still waiting for EFCA and a walk.
Not to be Petty but
♪♫ the waiting is the hardest part ♫♪
I guess the change in my pocket wasn't enough…
I'd like these eager souls to sing us all a new Congress.
Or simply replace that entire branch of government entirely with the 100% effective "bully pulpit."
Should have brought those big ugly puppets that always show up at left wing DC protests. Seriously, you might as well hold a hacky sack tournament in conjunction…
Wow that was bad, and they're calling him lame?
Think about how different history would be if these kids had been in the baby boom generation. Had these kids been the ones outside the LBJ White House, instead of the ones who yelled "hey hey ho ho LBJ has got to go," they would have chanted that lame bit about change, LBJ would have figured he had a decent chance and run for re-election…and Nixon would have been toast…
Just wondering — is this like 'bowl'ing for 4.20 or, is it the bowl of sh*t Carcetti is informed will be his daily dosage as mayor on The Wire?
I tend to think of the latter when I condsider Barry getting served a bowl of something. Carcetti et al's analogy helps me forgive him, somewhat, in that context.
dammit I just wrote out an entire Barack Obama reelection version of "Because I got High" and intensedebate banhammered it and now i've lost my buzz and can't reproduce it
That's happened to me (well, not that specifically), but in the past I've managed to save disappeared comments by hitting the 'back' button a few times on my browser, to get back to the window where I was entering the text.
Not even RZA could make that sound good.
See? That's what happens when you allow the riff-raff to be involved in politics.
Needz more cowbell, also.
"We’ll vote for you in 2012, yes that’s true/Look at the Republicans – what else can we do"
I guess. Although some days I feel like we should all register as Republicans and vote for the worst they have to offer… give the teatards, birchers and dinosaur riders ten years of the America they think they want and see how that goes.
At least no one hurled a shoe.
Face it, if that happened during a Dubya Funder they would have been carried outside and stoned by the Pharisees and Sadducees of the GOP.
And it would have just served them right for head-butting the cops' nightsticks!
And hitting them in the knee with their crotch.
I look forward to the impending Weird Al Yankovic parody: "I Paint Chartreuse. Ain't That Strange?"
At least he listened and didn't have Peter, Paul and Merry thrown out…
I think gay travel guide writers Betty and Pansy limned San Francisco activism the best: "We're planning a coup, but we have to have a latte first."
"Each of us brought you $5,000"
And that's the only line in their little song that matters. You can say whatever you want, just leave your money at the door.
Hating this song will finally bring liberals and conservatives together.
"We had to violate civil liberties to save them."
HEY-OHHHHHHH!
President Obama held a fundraiser in San Francisco yesterday, and, would you believe it, some people don’t like the fact that he hasn’t honored his campaign promises!
I missed the one about no white people going to jail, ever, but that sounds like something he would have promised.
These people need will.i.am's brilliance to make the greatest video evah. Worked for Barry. I mean, as-is, this song is pretty lame and it's OK to waterboard these people.
Why rich old white ladies are stupid, part 482:
These people paid a total of $76,000 to attend the dinner and sing this atonal ditty. All of that money goes to Obama's reelection campaign.
When she pulled up her tee shirt , I thought for sure she was going to offer the Prez her boobs. I was like, "No, she isn't…"
I was thinking the same thing. I thought she was going to do one of those protest strips that seem to be so popular, these days (see: PETA).
Bradley Manning is now in gen pop in Leavenworth, so can we complain about something a little more meaningful?
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