Posted on 05/21/2008 5:06:22 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
Sheesh! In an unbelievable display of a lack of common sense, the Obama campaign chose The Decemberists as the band to perform prior to the arrival of the Obamassiah last weekend in Portland. For those unfamiliar with the Decemberists, they often open their acts with a rendition of the national anthem...of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. I kid you not. I found one of their Soviet Anthem tunes on YouTube but the quality really stinks and all you see is mostly darkness and people yaketty-yakking in the background. However, you can hear and see the Soviet national anthem in a more entertaining venue in the Rocky IV VIDEO above. IMHO, Rocky IV was probably the BEST of all the Rocky sequels. Of great entertainment value was when the Soviet soldiers stood up in full uniform and bellowed out the Soviet National anthem as Communist flags with a grim Ivan Drago emblazoned on them rose into the air. Also of interest was the Gorbachev character in this flick who gazed angrily at his Sports Commissair after Drago was knocked out. And who can forget that terrific speech that Rocky gave to the crowd? Yeah, in the context of this movie the presentation of the Soviet National Anthem works from an entertainment POV but if you are a presidential candidate, do you really want to be fronted by a band who frequently uses that anthem as an opening. BTW, does anybody out there know if The Decemberists did play the Soviet anthem when opening for Obama in Portland?
One other thing of great interest in light of Obama's previous aversion to wearing the American flag pin. It turns out that in The Decemberists music VIDEO Sixteen Military Wives, the EVIL American representative makes a point out of wearing the flag pin on his lapel. Yet more cluelessness from the Obama campaign. What next? Jeremiah Wright doing an opening comedy act for Obama?
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Just starting points ... beware, Wiki is unreliable:
The band: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Decembrists
The historical Decembrist Revolt: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decembrist_revolt
Ha! Bow to Ronaldus. You all are mere pikers today in the PJ Comix fan club!
Part of that is the fault of ignoramus band leader Colin Meloy who thought the Decembrist revolt in Russia (when Karl Marx was about 12 years old) was somehow a Communist revolt.
It's mostly tribal nonsense, the same way a college student will wear a Che t-shirt knowing only that it's a vague expression of rebellion guaranteed to irritate his class enemies. A real Che would have blown that kid's brains out in La Cabaña. Whether Obama has any real Decemberists working for him - ay, there's the rub.
It doesn’t matter what he does, his supporters are as hypnotised by him as the followers of Jim Jones were, right down to the point when he made them drink cyanide-laced Kool-Aid. And they are going to try to guilt other Americans into voting for him. The whole rest of the world is salivating at the prospect of America joining them in the socialist globalist sewer-misery loves company. And the alternative is only marginally better, except on national defense (admiitedly a huge exception. But even he plans to flood the country with illegal immigrants).
I’m so over this election. I’d almost like to do whatever I can to get “off the grid” and go somewhere and be forgotten, so that the coming destruction won’t affect me for a while at any rate. The politicians on both sides have managed to create an impossible situation as far as we the people having much voice in our government. Amnesty is the clearest example-they just don’t quit, because they know that sooner rather than later, they’re going to get it shoved down our throats, no matter what a majority of Americans say they want.
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The Decembrists were a revolt by Czarist officers long before the Bolshevik Revolution. It took place around 1825.
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http://www.washingtonian.com/blogarticles/artsfun/afterhours/3628.html
Here’s some info where the bassist calls Bush a “War Criminal”
Thanks - I did actually know that. They aren’t the first of a long line of Russian revolutionaries but are by far the most romantic, glorified by old Herzen while Nicholas trembled in his castle. Marx was referring to them when he said “revolutions are the locomotives of history.”
Ah, but they do appear to be noble and conscience socialists.
The Decemberists
Look for the French National Anthem, la Marseillaise, sung by their equivalent to Kate Smith (but better looking!), Mireille Mathieu (from 1989). (audio only is here)Lyrics are even nastier than the later verses of the Star Bangled Banner.
English translation of Lyrics.
For reference full lyrics of the Star Spangled Banner are Here.
Compare:
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion, A home and a country should leave us no more! Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave: And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
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To arms citizens Form your battalions March, march Let impure blood Water our furrows
You have to recall that the French Revolution was in some degree, fairly large degree, inspired by our own, and that the Star Spangled Banner and la Marseillaise were actually written about the same time, sort of, but la Marseillaise was written first, 1792 actually during the Revolution, while ours was written during the War of 1812. Although interestingly it was originally a Loyalist song (a supporter of Louis XVI and army engineer, but adopted by the Revolutionaries. Sort of like "Yankee Doodle".
There’s another edition of this song in the movie “The Hunt for Red October.”
Captain, I thought I heard singing....
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