Very Interesting Blog Post - Comments about Stephen Colbert, White House, and the Way the Press Ignored Colbert

Check it out from The Swamp in the Chicago Tribune.

Iraq and Its Oil Industry On Verge of Total Collapse

So says the German pub, Der Spiegel:

The British and the Americans are guarding Iraq's Persian Gulf oil platforms -- the troubled country's only real sources of revenue -- like crown jewels. But Iraqi oil is flowing sluggishly at best, while hoped-for investments haven't materialized and the Iraqi oil industry is on the verge of collapse -- both technical and political.

The HMS Bulwark, Her Majesty Elizabeth II's most state-of-the-art warship, has been bobbing at the mouth of the Shatt al-Arab River for days. With its crew of more than 600 men, the amphibious ship, outfitted with landing craft and the latest technology, has a mission in fragile spots in the Persian Gulf -- but nothing happens. The coasts of Kuwait, Iraq and Iran are dimly visible on the horizon. The sea is calm as a dozen fishing boats crisscross the waters around the ship. Sometimes the calm lasts for days.

And then, suddenly, after weeks of monotony, something does happen. Four Iranian patrol boats traveling at high speeds -- 45 knots, or about 80 kilometers per hour (50 mph) -- approach the Bulwark from the East. They're manned by members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards -- not regular navy personnel. It's considered an ominous sign.

Captain Clive Johnstone sprints from his cabin to the command deck, and for a moment he loses his typically British cool. "All men without orders leave the bridge immediately!" he barks. Johnstone anxiously has his crew establish radio contact with the Iranians. It takes a few minutes to make the connection, but by then the Revolutionary Guards, or Pasdaran, have already stopped their boats -- at a point they believe marks the nautical border between Iran and Iraq.

The enemy that's making officers of the Royal Navy on the Bulwark so nervous consists of bearded men piloting small, agile, high-speed boats. Even the mightiest warship is vulnerable, as the suicide attack on the USS Cole in the Yemeni port city of Aden in October 2000 illustrates. In that incident, explosives hidden on a fishing boat manned by al-Qaida terrorists ripped an enormous hole -- six by 12 meters (19 by 39 feet) -- into the hull of the American destroyer, killing 17 American sailors.

Far more would be at stake if the same kind of attack were to occur here in the northern Gulf. The Bulwark lies at anchor between two giant oil platforms, the Basra and the Khawr al Amaya terminals. Two pipelines running along the ocean floor connect the platforms with the mainland 20 kilometers (12 miles) away. When both platforms operate at full capacity, they can load about 2 million barrels of oil onto waiting tankers -- about as much oil as France consumes in a day, or more than 2 percent of daily global demand. "A successful attack on one of these terminals would raise the world market price by several dollars within hours," says Commodore Bruce Williams, commander of the multinational fleet that monitors the waters off the Iraqi coast from its base on the Bulwark.

Bird Flu Boo-Boo Redux

Chaos is only the START of what I fear from a pandemic in the incapable, manipulative, nasty hands of the Bushies. From US News and World Report:

A flu pandemic would cause massive disruptions lasting for months, and cities, states and businesses must make plans now to keep functioning - and not count on a federal rescue, the Bush administration said Wednesday.

"Our nation will face this global threat united in purpose and united in action in order to best protect our families, our communities, our nation and our world from the threat of pandemic influenza," President Bush said in a letter to Americans noting the release of an updated national pandemic response strategy.

Bush last fall proposed a $7.1 billion plan to prepare for the next worldwide outbreak of a super-strain of influenza. Wednesday's report updates that plan, an incremental step that basically outlines exactly which government agency is responsible for some 300 tasks, many already under way.

Even the most draconian steps, such as shutting down U.S. borders against outbreaks abroad, would almost certainly fail to keep a flu pandemic from spreading here, the report acknowledges - and thus it outlines more limited travel restrictions that would be used instead.

"Stuck in Iraq" Or George and Dick's Excellent Adventure, the Untold Story

Posted by Rozius from Maureen Dowd's column today, "Stuck in Iraq":

Now we see this classic plotline in the Middle East. The inept captors have become the captives. The country the administration precipitously grabbed and overconfidently took over has ended up trapping, draining, flummoxing and alarming the administration, which is more and more desperate to hand it off and escape.

President Bush said Saturday, "As Iraqis continue to make progress toward a democracy that can govern itself, defend itself, and sustain itself, more of our troops can come home."

And in an interview in the new Vanity Fair, Todd Purdum asks Dick Cheney whether in his "darkest night" he has even "a little doubt" about the administration's course. "No," Vice says. "I think what we've done has been what needed to be done."

But even if they and their 33 percent unshakeable base are still in denial, there's a growing consensus that their plot was hatched, as O. Henry put it, "during a moment of temporary mental apparition" and that we're the Middle East hostages now, to war and oil.

The Sunday graduation ceremony for nearly a thousand new Iraqi soldiers at a base near Baghdad turned into an ugly melee when dozens of Sunnis declared they would fight only in their home areas, another reflection of growing internecine bitterness.

The Washington Post reported last weekend that American troops in Hawija are growing more distrustful of their Iraqi counterparts, fearing that many soldiers they are training are cooperating with the enemy.

Senator Joseph Biden and Leslie Gelb wrote an Op-Ed in The Times on Monday promoting the idea of "decentralizing" Iraq into three "ethno-religious" groups, even though critics argue that this could make it more likely that the Sunni section would become a haven for Al Qaeda and the Shiite sector an Iranian satellite.

Sam Alito, Right Wing Vote for Sale

This is why Sam Alito NEVER should have been allowed NEAR the Supreme Court.

Talk About Ridiculous: Cheney on a "Freedom Agenda" Tour?

Freedom Agenda? Oh, Mr. Cheney has an agenda alright, but the freedom of normal mortals is NOT what interests him one bit!

From the wires:

WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney looked ahead Tuesday to a three-nation, six-day trip designed to nurture democracy and advance U.S. interests in lands where political change doesn't always come easily.

Administration officials said a speech in Lithuania on Thursday to leaders of the Baltic and Black Sea regions would be the centerpiece of the journey, which also includes an unusual high-level visit to Kazakhstan.

The final stop was Croatia, where Cheney arranged meetings with leaders of three members of the Adriatic Charter, an organization founded by countries eager for admission to NATO.

While officials hoped Cheney's trip would advance President Bush's second-term "freedom agenda," energy issues, Iran's nuclear program and concerns about Russian President Vladimir Putin's actions also hovered over the journey.

The Soviet Union once occupied many of the countries whose leaders Cheney intends to meet, and President Bush recently expressed concern about the pace of democratization in Russia.

Potemkin Congress Indeed

I think Jon Carroll is RIGHT on the money with this, sad to say. From the San Francisco Chronicle:

There were two very fine photographs on the front page of this very newspaper the other day. The first showed the speaker of the House driving off in a hydrogen-powered car after a news conference on gas prices. The second showed him, about 100 yards down the road, getting out of the energy-efficient car and lumbering toward the SUV that would take him the rest of the way to wherever he was going.

Coming soon -- the Potemkin Congress.

Politicians are trying very hard to convince us that they have not been cowering before the mighty oil companies for just ever. They are talking bravely of taxing windfall profits, and prohibiting accounting tricks that keep profits high, and -- well, a bunch of stuff that will never happen. Bill Frist is talking about giving each of us $100 just for being ourselves. He feels our pain. Well, no, he doesn't, but he's hired someone to feel our pain.

Is there a more transparent trick than "Vote for me and I'll give you $100"? It's beyond satire. What's next? Free orgasms? Wait, they're already free. The system works.

It is equally amusing watching the oil companies explain how their record profits are not profits as such, and that with the costs of exploration and the growing need for energy and -- did you even try to follow it? We're rolling in money, but we're not actually rolling in money! This is not money! We are not here! Unless you're a stockholder, in which case we are here and this is money.

One might say to the American people: What did you expect? You voted for a guy who made his money in the oil business. (What he did in the oil business: not so clear.) You voted for a vice president who set energy policy by having secret meetings with oil company executives. You were in favor of a war that was fought to guarantee our oil supply. You cheered when economy-stimulating tax cuts were enacted. You are now paying $3 a gallon at the pump in what Daniel Yergin has called "the permanent shortage," and you feel betrayed? This was an act between consenting adults; it's a little late for buyer's remorse.

Not that one would expect the Democrats to do much better. Our political institutions are, in the area of corporate governance, largely irrelevant. The government couldn't help even if the government wanted to help. That train left the station 30 years ago.

Is the Congressional Sex Scandal Starting to Be Noticed By the Mainstream Media?

At least ABC News Online discovered it. Story here, with a snippet:

The Congressional payoff scandal may soon be known as the Congressional sex scandal.

The FBI is now investigating whether hookers were part of the scheme used by defense companies to get lucrative contracts.

We already know about the cash, cars, mansions and yachts that changed hands in the case of disgraced former Congressman Duke Cunningham.

But now sources close to the investigation tell us, as well as the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, that sexual favors may have been part of the deal.

The allegations include descriptions of Washington, D.C. poker parties in hotel suites, where prostitutes were brought by limousine as part of the entertainment.

No comment from the owner of the limousine company, a man with a long criminal record who just happened to get a $20 million contract to provide limousine service for the Department of Homeland Security.

200 Abramoff Visits to the White House in Less than 10 Months?

It was reported today that super-GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff, just in the first 10 months of the Bush presidency in 2001, signed into the White House more than 200 times! That amounts to about one visit each and every business day.

Remember, too, that in 2001, one would expect that the White House would have had more to worry about than Indian gaming casinos and the other stupid ass stuff Abramoff peddled. Yet - instead of stopping the terrorists on 9/11 or coming up with an energy plan NOT authored by Halliburton, Exxon, Texaco-Chevron, and Enron - people at the White House were busy making Mr. Abramoff's every request come true.

Then remember this was ONLY the first 10 months of the Bush presidency. We can only guess right now what happened during the other five years before the Abramoff story broke and the GOP, so greedy, was no longer trying to hide any of the excess.

I'm raging mad.

Poor, Poor President Bush: He Can Dish Out Soldiers to a Faked War But Can't Take Any Criticism

From US News and World Report (and boo fucking hoo that Bush didn't like it):

Comedy Central star Stephen Colbert's biting routine at the White House Correspondents Association dinner won a rare silent protest from Bush aides and supporters Saturday when several independently left before he finished.

"Colbert crossed the line," said one top Bush aide, who rushed out of the hotel as soon as Colbert finished. Another said that the president was visibly angered by the sharp lines that kept coming.

"I've been there before, and I can see that he is [angry]," said a former top aide. "He's got that look that he's ready to blow."

Colbert's routine was similar to what he does on his show, the Colbert Report, but much longer on the topic of Bush, suggesting that the president is out of touch with reality. Aides and reporters, however, said that it did not overshadow Bush's own funny routine, which featured an impersonator who told the audience what Bush was thinking when he spoke dull speech lines.

In fact, some aides crowed over reports that the president easily bested Colbert in the reviews of both comedy acts.

No Honor Among Medal of Honor Thieves

This sounds both sad and somehow uniquely American. Sheesh.

From ABC News:

A proliferation of phony heroes is prompting such groups as The Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation to lobby for tougher laws to punish the impostors.

The organization reports that there are 113 living recipients of the nation's highest military award, but an FBI agent who tracks the fakes said impostors outnumber the true heroes.

"There are more and more of these impostors, and they are literally stealing the valor and acts of valor of the real guys," said Agent Tom Cottone, who also works on an FBI violent crime squad in West Paterson, N.J.

Some fakers merely brag about receiving the award and that's not illegal but some impostors wear military uniforms and bogus medals. The FBI has about 25 pending investigations of such phony heroes, said Cottone.

Anyone convicted of fraudulently wearing the Medal of Honor faces up to a year in prison and a $100,000 fine. But there's no such penalty for other medals.

Net Neutrality: Keeping a Democratic Web

Here's another important editorial from The Times, something we should all be thinking about right now with both some Dems as well as too many Reprehensibles (far worse than regular Republicans) looking to take over the Internet to divide and conquer against us:

"Net neutrality" is a concept that is still unfamiliar to most Americans, but it keeps the Internet democratic. Cable and telephone companies that provide Internet service are talking about creating a two-tiered Internet, in which Web sites that pay them large fees would get priority over everything else. Opponents of these plans are supporting Net-neutrality legislation, which would require all Web sites to be treated equally. Net neutrality recently suffered a setback in the House, but there is growing hope that the Senate will take up the cause.

One of the Internet's great strengths is that a single blogger or a small political group can inexpensively create a Web page that is just as accessible to the world as Microsoft's home page.

But this democratic Internet would be in danger if the companies that deliver Internet service changed the rules so that Web sites that pay them money would be easily accessible, while little-guy sites would be harder to access, and slower to navigate. Providers could also block access to sites they do not like.

That would be a financial windfall for Internet service providers, but a disaster for users, who could find their Web browsing influenced by whichever sites paid their service provider the most money. There is a growing movement of Internet users who are pushing for legislation to make this kind of discrimination impossible. It has attracted supporters ranging from MoveOn.org to the Gun Owners of America. Grass-roots political groups like these are rightly concerned that their online speech could be curtailed if Internet service providers were allowed to pick and choose among Web sites.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee defeated a good Net-neutrality amendment last week. But the amendment got more votes than many people expected, suggesting that support for Net neutrality is beginning to take hold in Congress. In the Senate, Olympia Snowe, a Maine Republican, and Byron Dorgan, a North Dakota Democrat, are drafting a strong Net-neutrality bill that would prohibit broadband providers from creating a two-tiered Internet. Senators who care about the Internet and Internet users should get behind it.

The Times Gets My Applause for This Immigrant-Oriented Editorial

Hurray:

Warnings of a crippling immigrant boycott did not come true yesterday. The economy survived. But what may not survive — we hope — is people's willful misunderstanding of the nature of the immigrant-rights movement.

The worst among our citizens and politicians are eager to depict illegal immigrants as criminals, potential terrorists and alien invaders. But what we saw yesterday, in huge, peaceful rallies in Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Chicago, Denver, New York, Atlanta and other cities, were regular people: the same types of assimilation-minded moms, dads and children we wistfully romanticize on holidays devoted to, say, St. Patrick and Columbus.

If these extraordinarily positive events were a protest of anything, it was the idea of the immigrant as temporary and unwelcome guest worker. The marches flew in the face of theories that undocumented workers want nothing but to labor unnoticed and separate from the nation that employs them to make its meals, trim its hedges and slaughter its beef.

These immigrants, weary of silent servitude, are speaking up and asking for something simple: a chance to work to become citizens, with all the obligations and opportunities that go with it.

Our lawmakers, to their discredit, have erected barriers within barriers, created legal hurdles and bureaucratic hoops, and dangled the opportunity for lowly guest-worker status without the citizenship to go with it. It is an invitation to create a society with a permanent underclass deprived of any ladder to something better. It is a path to creating a different, and lower, vision of our country and ourselves.

It is not only the border-obsessed Minutemen who should be shamed by yesterday's joyous outpouring. Lawmakers who have stymied comprehensive immigration reform with stalemated name-calling and cold electoral calculation should listen up. A silent, shadow population is speaking with one voice. The message, aimed at Washington but something the whole country should hear, is clear: We are America. We want to join you.

Bush, Rumsfeld Call More and More Americans 50-70+ to Iraq

Doesn't this seem a little sad? Especially when you consider we have NEVER had war situations where we've called 50-75 year-olds back to active duty like the Bush-Rumsfeld crew.

From MSNBC:

A grandmother in eastern Iowa is getting one last call to duty.

Janet Grass, 52, had planned to retire from the military in about 10 months after spending 19 years in the U.S. Navy Reserve. Instead, she has been ordered to leave her job as a special-education teacher in Cascade to do security work in the Middle East.

"They're changing my career just as I'm retiring," she said.

Gee... perhaps Barbara Bush at 80 could be drafted. She looks a bit like a Bradley tank, don't you think?

Cato Institute: President Bush in Ceaseless Push for Power, His Way

As reported by the Financial Times:

President George W. Bush had shown disdain and indifference for the US constitution by adopting an “astonishingly broad” view of presidential powers, a leading libertarian think-tank said on Monday.

The critique from the Cato Institute reflects growing criticism by conservatives about administration policy in areas such as the “war on terror” and undermining congressional power.
“The pattern that emerges is one of a ceaseless push for power, unchecked by either the courts or Congress, one in short of disdain for constitutional limits,” the report by legal scholars Gene Healy and Timothy Lynch concludes.

That view was echoed last week by former congressman Bob Barr, a Republican, who called on Congress to exercise “leadership by putting the constitution above party politics and insisting on the facts” in the debate over illegal domestic wiretapping of terrorist suspects.

On Thursday Senator Arlen Specter, chairman of the judiciary committee, noted: “Institutionally, the presidency is walking all over Congress.”

Mr Healy and Mr Lynch argue that Mr Bush has also failed to protect the right to political free speech by approving a bill that eliminated “soft money” contributions to political parties. He had also cracked down on dissenters, with non-violent protesters being harassed by secret service agents whenever Mr Bush appears in public, it said.

Iran, Israel and the United States

The Iranian president today threatened that if the U.S. attacks his country, their first retaliatory attack will be against Israel. That sounds bad; it truly does.

Yet before we just give a knee-jerk reaction, let's look at some facts behind it.

First, Israel has been trying to get the U.S. to go after Iran for sometime. Many authorities, even those on the far right, agree that if the U.S. goes to war with Iran, the ONLY partner we will have will be Israel, which isn't such a good thing.

Second, in fact, there was very little outrage expressed by anyone when Israel last year was threatening to strike nuclear targets in Iran despite the fact that this would cause a world emergency. You can't hit a nuclear target without massive death and destruction and a change in the world environment. Very little of the coverage I've read and heard today offer the fact that Israel has already threatened them which isn't any better than Iran threatening Israel.

Third, Israel isn't some little helpless country. They have one of the four largest, most advanced militaries in the world although they also happen to be one of the smallest countries in the word. How did they get so powerful? Because the U.S. hands them more in aid, especially military aid, than any other country on the planet.

Fourth, Israel has very dirty hands in terms of black ops and military strikes, along with the Mossad, their secret military group. They wrote the book on "strike first and then find a justification for it later".

So I would NOT like to see Iran strike Israel, but I want just as little for Israel to attack Iran or Israel to goad the Bushies into going after Iran. We don't need Israel writing our military policy for us just because the extreme right considers Israel valuable for the Rapture to occur.

Skippy's Blogtopia!

I'm not quite sure I understand exactly what the fuss was about when Skippy (of Skippy the Bush Kangaroo fame) tried to contribute to advertising to help defray costs of the YearlyKos event and why the publication's people had such a problem letting Skippy identify himself the way he wished to except that - probably like many of you - I have noticed that a little bit of notoriety among some bloggers seems to go to their heads (I am not talking about skippy, who remains the same lovable 'roo he has always been).

But I do know this - Skippy definitely coined the phrase blogtopia as a nice alternative to "the world of blogs" and the "blogosphere" and I am pleased as punch (that's punch, not Krazed Konservative Kool-Aid) to be part of Skippy's version of blogtopia.

I also don't feel that having a huge number of hits or getting oneself constantly invited to political shindigs and having one's picture taken endlessly with political hacks necessarily makes a blogger a Master of the Universe (since even in the progressive end of blogtopia, only the male bloggers matter it seems).

But then, I'm just a female blogger so what do I know? ::cough::

The Privacy Invasions Never End with the Bushies

From today's Washington Post:

The FBI sought personal information on thousands of Americans last year from banks, Internet service providers and other companies without having to seek approval from a court, according to new data released by the Justice Department.

In a report to the top leaders of both parties in the House, the department disclosed that the FBI had issued more than 9,200 "national security letters," or NSLs, seeking detailed information about more than 3,500 U.S. citizens or legal residents in 2005.

The report, released late Friday, represents the first official count of NSL use. It was required under legislation that extended the USA Patriot Act anti-terrorism law.

The count does not include other such letters that are issued by the FBI to obtain more limited subscriber information from companies, such as a person's name, address or other identifying data, according to the report. Sources have said that would include thousands of additional letters and may be the largest category of NSLs issued. The Washington Post reported in November that the FBI now issues more than 30,000 NSLs each year, including subscriber requests.

The Justice Department report also outlined a continued increase in the use of secret warrants under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA. The secret court that oversees the law approved a record 2,072 orders for clandestine searches or surveillance in 2005 -- an 18 percent increase from the year before.

The new statistics provide the latest measure of the government's rapidly expanding anti-terrorism activities, which include a wide range of secret warrants and powers aimed at monitoring suspicious behavior and preventing attacks.

Vermonters: Pay Heed, Take Action

Fellow Vermonters, this is an especially important issue here. While we've stopped the disastrous electronic voting machines, Vermont is still committed to use Diebold (ugh!) optical scanners to count our paper ballots which clearly leaves room for error and fraud.

Please read the following from the Vermonters for Voting Integrity and, if you see the problems I do, take the recommended action ASAP. Thank you!

Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 4:32 PM
Subject: Do you trust Diebold electronic voting machines in Vermont?!?

Dear Concerned Vermonter,

You probably have heard about some of the problems with the Diebold electronic voting machines we use here in Vermont.Vermonters for Voting Integrity is a group of concerned citizens, working together to address this issue, by raising awareness and fighting to improve the security of our state's election system. From time to time we will let you know when there are action items, or news you should know about.

In brief, we would like to make sure everyone is aware of these basic facts concerning our election system:

1) The Diebold optical-scan system that is used to count most of the votes in Vermont has been found to have illegal software code on it.

An independent testing agency stated:"Memory card attacks are a real threat: We determined that anyone who has access to amemory card of the AV-OS, and can tamper it (i.e. modify its contents), and can havethe modified cards used in a voting machine during election, can indeed modify the electionresults from that machine in a number of ways.

The fact that the results are incorrect cannot be detected except by a recount of the original paper ballots."The "interpreted code" found on the memory cards is like a "back door" that allows anyone at LHS or Diebold to alter the results of an election, without leaving a trace of evidence. This type of code is specifically banned by the Federal Election Commission for this very reason.In other words, with a very important election coming up - including for Governor, Senate, and Congress, the results of the election could be altered and we would never know. Our democracy is seriously at stake!

2) When this vulnerability was discovered, several other states' election officials took action. The machines we use have been banned in many other areas. Our Secretary of State thus far has not responded.

3) Our election system in Vermont is currently not audited. This means if election fraud took place, it would never be detected.

4) The Secretary of State has the power to conduct random audits, which would provide a means to detect election fraud if it were to take place. According to Title 17 Section 2493 (a) (2):"The secretary of state may conduct a random post election audit of any polling place election results for a primary or general election within 30 days of the election."

IMPORTANT ACTION ITEM: Vermonters for Voting Integrity urges all citizens to contact Secretary of State Deb Markowitz and ask her to use her authority under the Constitution to conduct random audits in the coming November election. Please ask Ms. Markowitz specifically to conduct random hand-count audits on no less than 5% of the ballots that are counted and tabulated by the Diebold optical scan system. Here is the contact information:

Deb Markowitz
Vermont Secretary of State's Office
26 Terrace Street
Montpelier, Vermont 05609
(802)828-2363 email: dmarkowitz@sec.state.vt.us

Kathleen S. DeWolfe
Director of Elections & Campaign Finance
Office of the Secretary of State
26 Terrace St.Montpelier, VT 05609-1101
(802) 828-2304email: kdewolfe@sec.state.vt.us

In addition to this important action item, Vermonters for Voting Integrity encourages you to:

1) Forward this email to friends and associates. Encourage others to sign up for our mailing list (by contacting us at vermontvoters@solarbus.org). The key to getting the Secretary to take action is to show that a lot of people are concerned. This will only happen by grass-roots effort. Please do your part by passing this on and discussing the subject with others. If everyone got just one friend to join our list, it would double in size immediately!

2) Visit our website for more updated information on this important subject: http://solarbus.org/vtvoters

On the website you can find more details about the issues discussed in this email. Please encourage others to visit the website too.

Neil Young's Let's Impeach the President: The Lyrics

Here you go:

Let’s impeach the president for lying
And leading our country into war
Abusing all the power that we gave him
And shipping all our money out the door
He’s the man who hired all the criminals
The White House shadows who hide behind closed doors
And bend the facts to fit with their new stories
Of why we have to send our men to war
Let’s impeach the president for spying
On citizens inside their own homes
Breaking every law in the country
By tapping our computers and telephones
What if Al Qaeda blew up the levees
Would New Orleans have been safer that way
Sheltered by our government’s protection
Or was someone just not home that day?
Let’s impeach the president
For hijacking our religion and using it to get elected
Dividing our country into colors
And still leaving black people neglected
Thank god he’s cracking down on steroids
Since he sold his old baseball team
There’s lot of people looking at big trouble
But of course the president is clean
Thank God