11-06-2009, 05:03 AM
Quote:http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte...aises-to-obama/
This makes me nostalgic about my youth in that bastion of freedom formerly called the USSR. We sang songs like that about Lenin and Brezhnev. Now, little American kids can enjoy the same open minded policies and views as kids of my generation behind the Iron curtain did. I love it!
Enjoy.
Is this an attempt at satire? Most of those songs, such as the "Change We Can Believe In-Song", are purely meant to be inspirational and don't even mention Obamas name. Furthermore, they're message is positive: we need to change the way we do things because the way we do things is unhealthy. I see nothing wrong with that. The message can be applied on a personal level to our social and/or spiritual lives, or be about the environmental awareness. It's telling people - the youth who will shape this nation in the future - that they need to stop being so goddamn selfish and wake up, to see that their actions have consequences... and value! That they can change the future for the better. That everyone counts. Damn good message if you ask me. And none of the songs are asking people to compromise their values, quite the contrary, they ask that we respect one another.
Awhile back, thanks to Fox News, I had a genuine fear that Obama might be trying to control our youths by brainwashing them. You see, after reading on Fox News about a speech that was to be given to students in schools by Obama supposedly glorifying himself and telling students to follow him, and then saw the hysteria this caused - some parents I know pulled their kids out of school that day, and then I actually got a chance to read a transcript of what was said, well it really makes me believe that there is a group of people simply out to "get Obama" at any cost. "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" So far, everything I have seen or heard that students of any grade level have expressed regarding Obama has been nothing but positive. And its not just our youth, but there is some real B.S. misinformation being spread out to the mass about what Obama does, and I don't say this lightly - I was a McCain supporter for crying outloud! I feel like I can't even enter a room without some paranoid person spouting out some piece of misinformation. It's frustrating, and even I was suckered into it once upon a time. Now I try and get my facts from multiple sources and read up on what everybody is getting so worked up about before running my mouth. I wish others would do the same.
"The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self." -Albert Einsetin