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Happy Inaugeration, Mr. President ... and ...

The Red States Change Color ... and ...

Obama: Muslim, Terrorist


The videos on this YouTube channel at times exploit my unwitting children, who have been brainwashed into thinking that daddy’s late-night web video projects are funny. To them (and to their mother and my lovely non-trouble-causing wife) I apologize.

I also apologize to those who watch these videos with audio enabled.

I am not a trained singer.

I haven’t even made a good effort for an eager-but-untrained one.

To anyone offended by these videos I do not apologize, because I made these videos to offend you in the first place.

Whether you know it or not, the only reason you’re watching political videos on The YouTube* is to be amused or offended. If you think you’re watching political videos on The YouTube* to get educated, you have booted up the wrong computer and landed on the wrong internets.


About RaisedRong Productions:

RaisedRong Productions was born during the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign. It is completely solvent in these tough, challenging economic times because we don't pay anybody, and because The YouTube* hosts our pap for free.

About RaisedRong:

Just another late-night blogger. I am special, however, in that President Obama recently appointed me the nation's Car Czar without his knowledge. Read all about it here. (Really! Read it. The Car Czar blog is all about cars, driving, and the existential question, "How can Rush Limbaugh talk 24-hours-a-day to whacked-out old white people and still shove enough Ruth's Chris porterhouses in his pie hole to maintain his massive above-the-belt girth?" I've been thinking about shortening that last part to something more thought-provoking, like, "Has anybody seen Rush Limbaugh's Maybach? Do you think he ate it?").

While I don't believe Campaign 08 is the dirtiest ever, it is the first I can remember where outrageous, outright lies have been spread like wildfire and readily adopted by a large percentage of the population of one of the most modern, most educated countries on this planet.

You might blame the Obama Muslim/Terrorist/Socialist hysteria on the instant broadcast blast of the anything-goes web, but a large portion of those who are spreading this never-ending steaming pile of poo don’t even own a computer.

They’re not all old.

They’re not all racist.

They’re not all crazy. (Except inexplicably crazy about keeping Barack Obama out of the Oval Office).

I have some theories.

I moderate a political forum where the most paranoid examples of left and right extremist thinking mix it up on a regular basis while a few blessed, sane souls try (charitably but insanely) to steer the whole mess toward rational thought. I also live among folks who range from uncomfortable to terrified about a Barack Obama presidency.

Some observations about the Barack bashers I know personally:

All are from a generation that finds it unfashionable and "weak" to admit when it is wrong.

All are Republicans who voted for George W. Bush in 2004, when the world had an alarming amount of negative data from W’s first four years in office.

All are in my blow-hard opinion in the denial stage of shock at the result:

Denying that this country is stuck in an economically- and socially-expensive oil war born of apparent self-absorbed presidential ambition: a war wholly unrelated to the terrorists who attacked our country in 2001.

Denying that "their boy" had much, if anything, to do with the current financial meltdown on Wall Street. (In fairness, this meltdown was coming long before GWB took office ... no politician of any stripe would want to be known for standing in the way of a 15k Dow ... even one built on a house of "derivative" cards and borrowed Chinese capital).

As fate would have it, there is no silent, contrite void in today’s partisan right-wing denial. Maybe we don’t notice that silent, contrite void because it’s silent ... but that doesn’t mean it isn’t isn’t there. (Take that, Franz Kafka, if your consciousness is streaming anywhere here in The YouTube* smog).

The angry, hurt accusations reverberate from the padded walls of the self-constructed asylums of these self-styled Yankee kick-asses: George-Bush-the-Texas-cowboy-wannabe-identifying kickasses who have just had their asses kicked on the pages of history ... right before their own closed eyes.

Pay No Attention To The Guy Currently In The Oval Office ... the other guy ... the anti-Bush ... the black guy ... the Muslim ... terrorist ... socialist ... is going to sink this country.

Shucks, folks. Take a look around you. How much lower can it sink?

And this country’s going to sink based on stories you’ve made up about a guy who’s not even in office yet?

My poorly-sung Obama videos mock this stupidity, but they certainly don’t endorse Barack Obama. Maybe some day I’ll make a video without a political theme, and without singing.

I do endorse Mr. Obama.

I’m voting for Barack Obama because he’s probably the smartest, toughest, wisest guy to run the U.S. presidential election gauntlet in my lifetime.

He may be a disaster as president. I know lots of very smart guys who are too smart to find their own zippers. I remember Jimmy Carter. But I think we’ve gotten a few hints about the extraordinary abilities of Mr. Obama, and for that matter, we’ve already seen what a disaster-as-president can do to this country.

That said, if President Obama’s limo detonates a thermonuclear device during his inaugural parade or this guy so much as sells us out to the A-rabs, I’ll apologize right here, should I be fortunate enough to make it through the apocalypse. Until then, please plug your ears and enjoy.

-- RaisedRong, October 24, 2008



*My 10-year-old son, who mainly searches "fart" and "poop" on YouTube, calls it "The YouTube" -- just like all those old people do. I continue to think calling YouTube "The YouTube" is hilarious, and I am an old people.