This was inspired by a song by Noël Coward, called "Don't Let's Be Beastly To The Germans." If you're curious about the tune, here's a link to the song on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wveW9Tw2JKE

Don’t let’s be beastly to the Clintons

Now it’s certain that Barack’s the nominee

We must offer them a tissue, to dry their crying eyes

Maybe offer some spare delegates as a consolation prize

Let’s be sweet to them and day by day repeat to them

They’re still our favorite corporate bourgeoisie

Let’s give them both a cabinet post to let them know they matter most

But don’t let’s be mean to Billary

 

We must be kind

And with an open mind

We must endeavor to find a way

To let the Clintons know that though their smears were awful

They are not the ones who have to pay

We must be sweet, and tactful, and discreet

And though they’ve suffered defeat we mustn’t let them feel upset

Or ever get the feeling that we’re cross with them or hate them

Our double house majority must not alienate them

 

Don’t let’s be beastly to the Clintons

Because we know it is Obama’s victory

We must treat them very kindly as we would a valued friend

Treat the whole campaign to dinner…well, maybe not Mark Penn

Let’s employ with them a sort of “strength through joy” with them

And not lambaste their noble DLC

Let’s let them feel they’re swell again and smear us all to hell again

But don’t let’s not be mean to Billary

 

We must be just

And win their love and trust

And in addition we must be wise

And ask their failed campaign to come join our hands to aid them

That would be a wonderful surprise

For many years, they’ve been in a flood of tears

Because the poor little dears

Have been so wronged and only longed

To game the party and maim the party

For what they are entitled

How we blame them now for being homicidal?

 

Don’t let’s be beastly to the Clintons

Because you can’t deprive a dradle of its spin

Though they’ve been a little haughty to the smaller states and such

I can’t believe those voters really minded very much

We should humor them, and help them spread the rumors then

Of Barack’s skin-deep electability

Let’s interpret wins in larger states as reason to capitulate

But don’t let’s be mean to Billary

 

Don’t let’s be beastly to the Clintons

There’s a certain charm in all that secrecy

To demand to see those tax returns shows a shameful disrespect

Should the man who asks those questions be the man we should elect?

Our country needs brand name again, or should else vote George McCain again

There are untold virtues in having monarchy

Let’s allow them hope to wish again, and give them votes in Michigan

But don’t let’s be mean to Billary

Casey Knowles, the sleeping babe (in the poetic sense) from the Grand Hillusion that was the 3am ad, has released an official(?) video for the Obama campaign. I'm not sure how new it is, but here's the link anyway: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXmYVRIpu2w

You probably all read Dailykos, but I felt I'd post this link anyway.  These are videos of Reverend Wright's statements, but put in the context of the larger speeches.  Send, send, send!
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/3/20/224958/631/841/481227

Well, all I have to say is: so long, Reverend Wright.

I'm an adamant, unwavering Obama supporter, but one of my friends recently sent me this scalding critique of him.  I was just wondering how TPM feels about it.
'Barack Obama and the Audacity of Deception: The Manufacture of the Progressive Illusion'
By Paul StreetBarack Obama and his corporate handlers are masters of smoke and mirrors. Obama claims to have bumped his Afro-centric pastor from his official presidential announcement to "protect" the minister, rather than to shield his own candidacy. Obama implies that Hillary Clinton is a tool of corporate money, when he is a cog in the very same machine. He tells a Black audience that his own conception was made possible by civil rights struggles at Selma, Alabama, 1965, and Birmingham, 1963 - but Obama was born in 1961.  And he claims a vote for him is the equivalent of joining the anti-war movement. Of course, real anti-war activity isn't that easy - what comes easy for Barack Obama, is lying.

read on:http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?Itemid=34&id=463&option=com_content&task=view