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April 6, 2009

Obama's Submarine

Obama's gonna MAKE US RICH! (An answering machine message a Lubbock Texas Bank after the bank had notified a customer that the bank needed to repossess their car. Click to play and wait for the last five seconds.)

(Lenin/McCarthy)
In the land where I was born
Ran a pol who said he sees 
And he promised us spare change
 If we gave him the submarines  

So we voted him our Prez 
And he turned the sea red ink 
And we sank beneath those waves 
In Obama's submarine  

We're all broke in Obama's submarine 
Obama's submarine, Obama's submarine 
We're all broke in Obama's submarine 
Obama's submarine, Obama's submarine  

The Chicoms sucked up our debt 
They won't foreclose us, yah, you bet 
And history begins to play....  

We're all broke in Obama's submarine
Obama's submarine, Obama's submarine 
We're all broke in Obama's submarine 
Obama's submarine, Obama's submarine  

["Full speed ahead, Mr. Geithner, full speed ahead!"
"Full speed over here, bro!"
"Stimulus station! Stimulus station!" 
"Aye, aye, sir, fire GM!"
 "Heaven! Heaven!"]  

As we live a life of sleaze (A life of sleaze!)
Everyone of us (Everyone of us) gets little we need (Gets little we need) 
Sky of pie (Sky of pie!) and sea of spleen (Sea of spleen!) 
In Obama's (In Obama's) submarine (Submarine, ha, ha)

We're all broke in Obama's submarine
Obama's submarine, Obama's submarine 
We're all broke in Obama's submarine 
Obama's submarine, Obama's submarine 
We're all broke in Obama's submarine
Obama's submarine, Obama's submarine 
We're all broke in Obama's submarine 
Obama's submarine, Obama's submarine.....

Posted by Vanderleun at April 6, 2009 5:52 PM

You're welcome, and I take your point. But it's not really a diatribe. It's just a send-up using a Beatles song for a mild satire.

I would say that it it wasn't 8 years of economic incompetence. It was, for most of it, 8 really good years at the end of a long boom and the seeds of the meltdown were planted long before 2000. What counts are the policies not from the past but in the present and the future. On that we shall see, but there is a consensus that similar things tried by FDR in the Depression (See "The Forgotten Man") deepened and prolonged the Crash of 29 and what came later.

BTW, get ready to hear from Apple and Yoko. They're always on top of this sort of thing. I know.

Posted by: vanderleun at April 6, 2009 11:36 PM

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It is within Barack Obama's power to make us all poor, and he is trying mightily to do just that. It is not, however, within his power to make everybody rich. (Only himself and his friends) At the point when that finally dawns on people like this repo-lady, well, what happens then? Riots in the streets to claim all the stuff they were promised?

Posted by: Boots at April 6, 2009 7:19 PM

thanks for the post, but you are really comfortable with the idea that obama is going to make us poor? from my watch my company has been suffering long before O got in the door. its hardly fair to endure 8 years of incompetence to lambaste the new guy only in office for about 2 months. be critical, sure… but the above is a diatribe.

Posted by: thomas romer at April 6, 2009 11:19 PM