Tuesday Tune: Super "President Obama" Bonus Play

What a difference four years can make ...

November 2008




November 2004

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Tuesday Tune: Bedtime for Bonzo

Remember the good old days when "Bedtime for Bonzo" star and U.S. President Ronald Reagan visited a Nazi Gestapo SS cemetery during a visit to Bitburg, Germany? The Ramones did.

Now that recent events have pretty much laid bare the failures of the Reagan Revolution's deregulation infatuation and supply-side economics (and many, many "Reagan Democrats" will be coming back home this year to vote for Obama) it seems the Gipper's revolution has finally run its course. It truly is "Bedtime for Bonzo" and his failed policies. ENJOY!



You've got to pick up the pieces
C'mon, sort your trash
You better pull yourself back together
Maybe you've got too much cash
Better call, call the law
When you gonna turn yourself in? Yeah
You're a politician
Don't become one of Hitler's children

Bonzo goes to bitburg then goes out for a cup of tea
As I watched it on TV somehow it really bothered me
Drank in all the bars in town for an extended foreign policy
Pick up the pieces

My brain is hanging upside down
I need something to slow me down

Shouldn't wish you happiness, wish her the very best
Fifty thousand dollar dress
Shaking hands with your highness
See through you like cellophane
You watch the world complain, but you do it anyway
Who am I, am I to say

Bonzo goes to bitburg then goes out for a cup of tea
As I watched it on TV somehow it really bothered me
Drank in all the bars in town for an extended foreign policy
Pick up the pieces

My brain is hanging upside down
I need something to slow me down

If there's one thing that makes me sick
It's when someone tries to hide behind politics
I wish that time could go by fast
Somehow they manage to make it last

My brain is hanging upside down
I need something to slow me down

Electronic Voting Machine Wins Election

From the fine folks at the Onion News Network:

Tuesday Tune: Good Mornin' Blues . . .

... I just had to come by here and have a few words with you

Washington Week Discusses Oregon Senate Race

Tonight on Washington Week, PBS's Gwen Ifill and guests John Dickerson (Slate), Jeanne Cummings (Politico), Shailagh Murray (The Washington Post) and Michael Viqueira (NBC News) discussed Oregon's U.S. Senate race and Barack Obama's coattails.

Obama's recently cut ad for Merkley got their attention, as did Gordon Smith's party-identification avoidance. But mostly it was Obama's coattails.

Watch the video HERE.

The Oregonian v. Gordon Smith's Head Fake

As part of its endorsement of incumbent Republican Sen. Gordon Smith against challenger Jeff Merkley, the Oregonian editorial board had this to say about Smith's reversal of fortunes on the Iraq war:

"By far, though, Smith's conscience-driven reversal of his support for the war in Iraq was his most important decision. He made the choice after deep reflection and while under great pressure from the White House and Republicans to stay the course. His defection prompted others and pushed the administration toward finally developing an endgame in Iraq. The decision cost him support among GOP voters, which could cost him this election."

Alllllrighty then! That's mighty fine.

But there is another, less -- heh-hemmm -- deferential, version of events that goes a little something like this...


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"The Great Schlep" For Obama

Comedian Sarah Silverman asks young Jews to convince their grandparents to vote for Barack Obama.

(If you're listening to this at work, you might want to turn down the volume a bit, unless maybe you work at a construction site).


The Great Schlep from The Great Schlep on Vimeo.

Tuesday Tune Two-fer: Rust Never Sleeps

My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)



Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)

Dumb Is So Five Minutes Ago

Mo Rocca may be (sort of) onto something HERE ...

"The problem is it isn't 2000 anymore, when the world was safe (relatively) and the economy was booming (sort of). Back then we could afford to elect someone who seemed to be ... just like you and me. That's why we elected George Bush, aka the Male Sarah Palin. He was someone you wanted to have a (non-alcoholic) beer with.

But right now, Knowledge is In. Dumb is so five minutes ago.

Another Third Party Candidate Emerges

Not as funny as his last appearance on Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update, when he unveiled his plan for a cow college, but "Write-In Party" presidential candidate Tim Calhoun gives another solid performance ...

Today in Oregon

Tuesday Tune: Can't See For The Brightness...

Today in Oregon

Nocturnal Wildlife

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Franken Leading Polls In Minnesota Senate Race

From The Nation:

(T)wo new polls have confirmed Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party candidate Al Franken's status as a narrow-but-consistent leader in the race with Republican incumbent Norm Coleman and Independence Party candidate Dean Barkley, who briefly held the seat as an appointee after the death of U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone in 2002.

A Rasmussen Poll has Franken at 43 percent, Coleman at 37 and Barkley at 17.

A University of Minnesota survey puts Franken at 41, Coleman at 37, Barkley at 14.

PDX Council Candidates Discuss Racial Profiling

Portland city council candidates Amanda Fritz and Charles Lewis discussed the sensitive issue of racial profiling recently at a debate in Northeast Portland:

From The Portland Observer:

Both candidates acknowledged in last week's forum that racial profiling is a real problem, one that must be addressed.

Lewis, the founder of Ethos, Inc., a provider of music education to minority and disadvantaged populations, said being singled out and discriminated against are "hard on a person's spirit."

Although he did not believe the vast majority of Portland's police officers were involved in racial profiling, he said there were definitely a few bad apples out there.

Fritz, a registered nurse, volunteer leader and public schools activist, said the city was very good about studying things and making committees, but that the time has come to implement recommendations to curb racial profiling.

Read the rest HERE.