Class Warfare Propaganda in American Folk-Pop

I just realized I must be one of those detestable upper-class people John Cougar Mellencamp sings about in his song "Pink Houses"

Well there's people and more people
What do they know know know
Go to work in some high rise
And vacation down at the Gulf of Mexico
Ooh yeah

We just decided to go on our first ever Florida vacation to St. Pete's Beach just west of Tampa-yes, on the Gulf of Mexico. And I guess you could say I work in a "high-rise" in Tyson's Corner. To be fair to my man JCM, this was written while 25 years ago when maybe a trip to the "Gulf of Mexico" seemed more exotic, and now it's more affordable. But then you would have to admit that our standard of living has increased over the last 25 years-something leftists are loath to do.

How many other pop songs did we blindly sing along with as teenagers, without realizing the leftist class envy propaganda being pushed? Let's see, there's Tracy Chapman "Revolution:"

While they're standing in the welfare lines
Crying at the doorsteps of those armies of salvation
Wasting time in the unemployment lines
Sitting around waiting for a promotion

Poor people gonna rise up
And get their share
Poor people gonna rise up
And take whats theirs

"Poor people go to rise up and take what's theirs?" Yikes! Another one that comes to mind is Bruce Hornsby's"The Way It Is"

Standin' in line marking time
Waiting for the welfare dime
'Cause they can't buy a job
The man in the silk suit hurries by
As he catches the poor old lady's eyes
Just for fun he says, 'Get a job'

Can you think of any others?

Worshipping Obama

FrontPage Magazine: "'My prayers for decades have been answered in this minute,' Wallis breathlessly told The Washington Times after the inauguration, boasting of his friendship with Obama for years. 'We've been talking faith and politics for a long time.'"

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Kudos and "Boo-dos"

Kudos to President Obama for thanking George Bush for his service to our country. That's not usually done during inauguration speeches, and Obama will pay a price in the blogosphere of the loony left-at least for a day or two. And I thought it was extra classy to walk him to his helicopter.

"Boo-dos" to the crowd that booed Bush when he got up to speak. You would think in victory, after all the help bush has given the incoming administration, people could at least show a little respect. But that's part and parcel of the last eight years. Makes me want to put one of those obnoxious bumper stickers on my car-remember all the 01-20-09 bumper stickers? But I refuse to stoop to that level and put a 01-20-13 bumper sticker on mine. But when I see people act like that I'd have to admit I'm tempted…

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Inauguration 2009 Prayer

Psalm 146

1 Praise the LORD. [a]
Praise the LORD, O my soul.

2 I will praise the LORD all my life;
I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.

3 Do not put your trust in princes,
in mortal men, who cannot save.

4 When their spirit departs, they return to the ground;
on that very day their plans come to nothing.

5 Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob,
whose hope is in the LORD his God,

6 the Maker of heaven and earth,
the sea, and everything in them—
the LORD, who remains faithful forever.

7 He upholds the cause of the oppressed
and gives food to the hungry.
The LORD sets prisoners free,

8 the LORD gives sight to the blind,
the LORD lifts up those who are bowed down,
the LORD loves the righteous.

9 The LORD watches over the alien
and sustains the fatherless and the widow,
but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.

10 The LORD reigns forever,
your God, O Zion, for all generations.
Praise the LORD.

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