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10-01-2008, 03:27 PM #11Dapper Dandy
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It played just fine for me
It's weird, but nothing new. Kids have been singing the praises of their parent's favorite cadidates for a long time. What scares me is the "we're gonna change the world, rearrange it" bit. That little girl has no idea
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10-01-2008, 03:31 PM #12Senior Member
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Well, it does have shades of "Die Knechtschaft dauert nur mehr kurze Zeit", but anyone that would tear up and be convinced to vote for Obama because of this would probably tear up and be convinced that every time a lion is born in Africa, some monkey stands up on a cliff and holds it up for the zebras to see. "Hey, turds! Here's the next king that's going to gobble you up..." (What am I saying? That's EXACTLY like American politics.) We have only ourselves to blame for this kind of crap, from both sides of the aisle, because it's just this sort of symbolism over substance (to borrow a loathed phrase) that we've been touting. The one thing that made me throw up a little bit in my mouth was the phrase, "...we are going to change the world." Oh, really? Under whose auspices? With what mandate? Hey, Bruno, we're going to change Belguim for you, because, well... you know... it needs to be CHANGED! And we know better than you do how it should be changed, see? Yeah. I don't ever recall reading anywhere in the Constitution that the President of the U.S. is granted authority to run anything at all outside of the U.S. Leader of the "free world" indeed. It makes me so sick.
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10-01-2008, 06:06 PM #13< Banned User >
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Well Mark are you looking for a real opinion or only what agrees with your sentiment?
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10-01-2008, 06:15 PM #14Senior Member
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Those poor kids. I don't know exactly what to say, and probably shouldn't say here.
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10-01-2008, 06:23 PM #15French Toast Please!
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+1 on this statement. And who cares anyway? My kids aren't in this video.
Now if he gets elected and starts rounding up Jewish people and sending them to concentration camps I might play the Hitler youth card. Until then I just don't care about stuff like this or any propaganda as I don't let it influence me.
Originally Posted by Quick Orange
It played just fine for me
It's weird, but nothing new. Kids have been singing the praises of their parent's favorite cadidates for a long time.
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10-01-2008, 07:54 PM #17what Dad calls me
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I wouldnt let my kid sing for either candidate. Its like mothers who force their daughters to do the beauty pageants, living thru their kids.
It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled. Twain
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10-01-2008, 11:23 PM #18Usagi Yojimbo
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I asked what you thought, didn't I? Originally Posted by icedog
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10-02-2008, 04:52 AM #19Senior Member
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The kids singing for the Obama campaign could have been singing for any cause, anywhere in the US, for either party, or at any church, or summer camp, or youth center.
I listened to it and only heard Obama's name mentioned in the beginning, the rest was how "we" (the kids singing are going to make changes, "we" are going to do this, etc.
I found the labeling of this by the Conservatives as a hymn to "Dear Leader" Obama or other such comments to be puerile.
Using children for political purposes is as old as politics - and is sad and in bad taste regardless of the party involved.
However, as noted here, parents will force their kids into anything - sports, beauty pageants, music lessons, youth groups, etc. It depends on whether the kids wants to participate or if the parent is living through the child, hoping to fulfill some personal fantasy. To wit, the dad arrested for assaulting a coach becasue Junior didn't get to pick his hat and jersey first or the mom who asked brother-in-law to hire a hit man to kill the mom of another cheerleader competing against her daughter for a spot on the cheer leading squad or the mother who assaulted an 11-year old boy becasue he was cheering for the team playing against hers on.
Will it influence my vote? Only as far as supporting any potential bond issue that would raise funds for music and vocal training.
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