A song for all you racist Romney voters

So Randy Newman is still alive, huh? Let me say up front that I've never been a fan of his music. His unique form of vocalizing isn't a sound I'd pay money to hear (though I might consider paying him to be quiet, if that were an option). I'm still recovering from Short People which played nonstop on the radio in 1978 and opened all of our eyes to what bigots we really are. Very deep! (Nor have I gotten over the bumping of Jeff Beal's delightful Monk theme in favor of Newman's "It's a Jungle Out There," bleated by the artist himself.)

But anyway, he's apparently still kicking and caterwauling. And he's got something to say to all of you Americans who don't plan to vote for Barack Obama: You Are Racists. That is all.

That whirring sound you hear in the background is Irving Berlin, a man who was pretty thrilled with the America he adopted (in spite of all those white guys), spinning in his grave.



Lyrics here.

A few questions: So Obama does know how to "handle money" (beyond enthusiastically spending and borrowing it)? And Obama hasn't started his own war, or engaged pretty enthusiastically in certain aspects of the ones he inherited? And why doesn't Newman apply his own (and Country Joe McDonald's) question, "What are we fighting for?" to Afghanistan, where Americans (of all colors) are fighting and dying right now? How about a song about that? But that's Obama's war now, so only racists would criticize it.

I don't quite get the part in the middle about the little boy in Africa, but I guess the point is that we need presidents who . . . um, can run fast and climb trees? The song ends with: "He won't be the brightest, perhaps, but he'll be the whitest, and I'll vote for that."

Is that too subtle for you? If so, Newman explains here.

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