Awesome compilation, Teresa, thank you! I am especially delighted
with "Barack the Magnificent." Those lyrics are a political commentary
better than I've read in the newspaper.
And, because the spirit is with the Obama campaign at this mortal
moment, three middle-school white kids dressed up--two as rappers, one
in a sombrero--to record their own version: Como Se dice Como Se llama
Obama. Good on 'em.
*cringe* But now THAT video is breathtakingly racist and just plain
wrong. Those kids are so horribly unfamiliar with the language and
culture of the people they are imitating that their imitation is pure
mockery.
I was born in 1965 and I have very vague memories of the lunar landing, but the first news event I really remember was the 1972 Summer Olympics. Not the games, of course, but the Israeli hostages. I remember the news footage of a balcony, and men with machine guns and black masks.
Sam @ #43, I'm a huge fan of Doug Muder's writing, too. "Red Family, Blue Family" was a watershed brain-changing article for me to read, too.
And yet I come to exactly the opposite conclusion that you do with respect to the influence of what you label "traditionalist" and I would label "fundamentalist" religion in the U.S. Traditionalists/Fundamentalists (red family type folk) have had the Republican Party by the short and curlies for the past 25 years or so. Because of that, our Supreme Court has people on it who will most likely overturn Roe v Wade. Precisely because of the control exercised over our government by traditionalists/fundamentalists/red family type folks.
And intelligent design in schools (which the Flying Spaghetti Monster is a response to) is attributable to nothing other than t/f/rftf exercising power over government.
Limousine liberal elites are so 40 years ago. Welcome to government brought to us by The Heritage Foundation.
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