Posted on 01/07/2010 9:35:00 PM PST by bogusname
Grammy Award-winning music artist Ray Stevens has recorded a song and video that is fast becoming the anthem of the Tea Party Movement.
We the People is about Obamacare and the health-care reform bills that have passed both houses of Congress.
The lyrics express a comic, but pointed warning to members of Congress: You vote Obamacare, were going to vote you out of there. We the People have awakened to your tricks. You vote to let this pass, youre going to be out on your (sound of foghorn). ...
(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...
Great song. The movement is certainly developing a culture of its own. Plenty of room for many, many songs.
Have you SEEN the HITS that thing is getting on You Tube? My lord! ... ;-)
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Excellent !!!!
There’s been an ongoing battle with the lefties (you know, those people who are always pontificating about free speech?) pulling the video down, and the producers putting it back up again. At the moment, America Rising is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=662R2awSwPQ&feature=topvideos
If the neo-fascists get it again, just search for the title.
Want to thank everyone for the links. I have become a ‘Yankee with a cause’ and emailed all the links to everyone I know with a please forward attached.
Oh, by the way, the guy who posted it was getting death threats from the “champions of tolerance”.
I have become a Yankee with a cause.
Thank you for posting the link (I had not seen this excellent video, and I appreciate the opportunity to send it to my email contacts):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=662R2awSwPQ&feature=topvideos
Just want to add the comments of the one who posted it on YouTube, who is obviously being harassed big time and has had to block comments about the video:
“If you are smart enough to read the description before commenting, congratulate yourself, you are smarter than most of the liberals that commented. I have stopped the comments on this video for many reasons, for example: racist rants, death threats, calling out for murder, accusing me of things that are just not true (as if you liberals somehow have ESP and know what I am all about.) Get over yourselves! Thanks to all the people who do get it, you are out there, keep spreading accurate information as most of us can agree we are not being shown the truth. So I will answer most of the shat that was coming at me in the following points, I will keep it simple so you can follow.
1. I did not create this video
2. Both Democrats and Republicans are guilty of legislating poor policies that negatively affect us for generations to come. Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and the Post Office are not doing well, they are on the verge of bankruptcy.
3. Anyone who is in the health care field understands why this reform is not going to do anything but grow the government and raise the cost of health care. Anyone who is not, thinks they know best.
4. Big government is not the solution as it is unsustainable. Government needs to be run like a business not a service, they need a reduction in force. Any company designed like our federal government would be long gone by now unless, of course, they had unlimited access to the taxpayer’s wallet.
5. Contrary to all who think that being “unenrolled” somehow prevents me from voting any way I would like, again, in my state I can.
6. Most of the absolute anger, death threats and name calling has come from the left, real grown up guys.
7. This experience has woken me up to the sad fact of how Obama got in office, you believe what you want and reject anything that paints your “man” in a negative light. As if “well, where were you when Bush was in office?” is a valid argument. Wake up!
8. Many of the Tea party goers I met were unhappy with the over-reaching hand of the government, regardless of political affiliation.
9. If you voted for Hope and/or Change, you should just stick to American Idol. There is a reason they call it “Chicago Politics”
10. They want us to be divided, as long as we are they will remain in power to do as they wish with our lives, our money and our freedom.
11. The fact that some members of Congress are breaking laws that would end us up in prison, should have you motivated to demand they step down, but you probably don’t even know who Charlie Rangell is.”
“Would that the movements anthem had a more respectable pedigree.”
Ever heard of Anacreon?
Ray’s video is very funny, but for an anthem I much prefer Lloyds, agreed.
Ha ha. My best friend from elementary school toured with him! Now he’s the music director for the Grand Ole Opry.
Many a true word is spoken in jest.
Awhile back he wrote, "If Ten Percent is Good Enough for Jesus, It Ought to Be Enough for Uncle Sam." He's been conservative for a long time.
there are only two spontaneous songs that became recent patriotic anthems,
“Proud to be an American/God bless the USA”
and
The post sept 11 “boot in your ass” song.
I get the impression most of the rest are just looking to become famous.
unless the group can sing a positive message then these songs are all pointless.
We are better off with “we will rock you” or we are the champions than the samples proposed here.
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