Head Bang For Obama

To continue my musical-propaganda train for my favorite 2008 Presidential Candidate - Sen. Barack Obama - I present “Obama-sistable” a great find by Andrew Sullivan at the Atlantic’s Daily Dish.

The fact that Obama can get these guys to rip a few guitar chords in their parents basement - well that just takes the idea of political efficacy to a whole new level for me.

So far we have a broad musical tribute going on for the O-man:

• Deadheads for Obama
• The Yes We Can celebrity tribute to Obama
• My own personal “Hope The World A Better Place” mix cd
• The Obama Girl music video
• The Bergevin Bros “Fire it Up and Ready To Go” song

And there are many more musical tributes for this campaign of hope that I’m sure I haven’t even seen yet. I wonder if this campaign has the grassroots record for the most cause related music created for one Presidential campaign?

So, far only one musician has totally failed his peers when it comes to flexing his musical muscles in the political world - DMX. According to his interview in XXL Magazine, he doesn’t even know Barack Obama is a) black or b) running for President.

Are you following the presidential race?
Not at all.

You’re not? You know there’s a Black guy running, Barack Obama and then there’s Hillary Clinton.
His name is Barack?!

Barack Obama, yeah.
Barack?!

Barack.
What the fuck is a Barack?! Barack Obama. Where he from, Africa?

Yeah, his dad is from Kenya.
Barack Obama?

Yeah.
What the fuck?! That ain’t no fuckin’ name, yo. That ain’t that nigga’s name. You can’t be serious. Barack Obama. Get the fuck outta here.

You’re telling me you haven’t heard about him before.
I ain’t really paying much attention.

I mean, it’s pretty big if a Black…
Wow, Barack! The nigga’s name is Barack. Barack? Nigga named Barack Obama. What the fuck, man?! Is he serious? That ain’t his fuckin’ name. Ima tell this nigga when I see him, “Stop that bullshit. Stop that bullshit” [laughs] “That ain’t your fuckin’ name.” Your momma ain’t name you no damn Barack.

So you’re not following the race. You can’t vote right?
Nope.

Is that why you’re not following it?
No, because it’s just—it doesn’t matter. They’re gonna do what they’re gonna do. It doesn’t really make a difference. These are the last years.

But it would be pretty big if we had a first Black president. That would be huge.
I mean, I guess…. What, they gon’ give a dog a bone? There you go. Ooh, we have a Black president now. They should’ve done that shit a long time ago, we wouldn’t be in the fuckin’ position we in now. With world war coming up right now. They done fucked this shit up then give it to the Black people, “Here you take it. Take my mess.”

Right, exactly.
It’s all a fuckin’ setup. It’s all a setup. All fuckin’ bullshit. All bullshit. I don’t give a fuck about none of that.

We could have a female president also, Hillary Clinton.
I mean, either way it doesn’t matter. I don’t care. No one person is directly affected by which president, you know, so what does it matter.

Yeah, but the country is.
I guess. The president is a puppet anyway. The president don’t make no damn decisions.

The president…they don’t have that much authority basically?
Nah, never.

But Bush pretty much…
You think Bush is making fuckin’ decisions?

He did, yeah, he fucked up the country.
He act like he making decisions. He could barely speak! He could barely fuckin’ speak! Can’t be serious. He ain’t making no damn decisions.

WOW - thanks DMX. Just when we thought we were making a dent….how about you just keep to rapping, we’ll keep to politicking.

 

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