Nomad

Pink (Live) Music Video - Dear Mr President

ubertuber

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Why did you post this? Just to share? Nomad, please come back and at least tell us what you think of this.

I checked it out. It's good - she sings well and it's timely. In fact, a little song like this could be more effective with the masses than splashy soundbites of Howard Dean in New Orleans.

On the other hand (and I'm sort of saying this to get it out of the way), there are some lines in that song that.... "Let me tell you about hard work. Making minimum wage... Let me tell you about hard work. You don't know nothing about hard work..."

I heard this saying once. It starts like this: people who live in glass houses...

But I'll be honest, I went to iTunes and downloaded it. So I'm part of the reason Pink makes more than minimum wage to take shots at other people who make more than minimum wage.

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flstf

This song is hilarious coming from someone like Pink, a millionaire lecturing a millionaire. She must be a "Stupid Girl" if she thinks she is not being a hypocrite.

Elphaba

Spellbinding lyrics.

Gatorade Frost

She's right. Maybe I should vote Democrat in the next election. I know the Kennedys have learned what a hard days work is all about.

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Paq

if yo uthink about it..was pink always a millionairre? IIRC, no

so she did, in some way, work hard as hell at some point for min wage or something near it. It's not like she was brought up with the simpsons or the kennedy's or the bush's.

Now, that said, it's a song, it's meant to speak for more people than just the person singing it.

still, in the light of the other pop songs out..it at least has some message..

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ironman

So she should give away all her mundane possesions in order to be able to sing this song without been criticized? Give me a brake! in Cartman's words "Damn Hippies"

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ubertuber

Well, the point is true no matter who says it. But, there's some enjoyable irony in a rock-star criticizing the president for being well-off. Nothing more, nothing less.

It'll be interesting to see how much radio play this gets - and if that translates into a barometer for people's attitudes come November.

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Ustwo

Last thing I would want is a president who was poor.

And ubertuber if 'Pink' has a direct effect on the next election, I'm going to be hording ammunition.

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ubertuber

I was thinking a measure of people's attitudes, not an influencer of them. But I guess you can never tell.

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Ustwo

Fair enough, but when/if the republicans loose a majority in 2006 or the presidency in 2008 the reason will not be whatever is said in the left wing press (the same ones that gave the faulty 'moral values' as an excuse for 2004) but because the Republicans have failed to do what we put them there to do in 1994.

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host

Please stop calling it, <b>"the left wing press"</b>...over and over, without making any successful attempt to back up your accusation.

It's "hard work" to counter your unsubstaniated opinions, again and again...
Your post #43....
I find your oft posted opinion about a consistant, "liberal" or "leftist" bias in the U.S., mainstream press, as incredible as I found the 1972, taped conversation of the most powerful U.S. politician and the most influential U.S. religious leader:
Ustwo, it was absurd when those two, very powerful men said it in 1972, and it is at least as absurd, IMO, these days, when you post it, on these threads. I have a small sliver of hope that you will compare how Nixon and Billy Graham "looked", making those comments (especially if they actually believed what they said to each other....), with how anyone who makes similar comments "looks", today.

Even if you see nothing contradictory between Nixon and Graham's power and influence, vs. their comments about "media control", my remaining, tiny remnant of hope is that you recognize that the onus is on you to convincingly back your "liberal media" mantra.

The record shows that you have failed to do that, hence..... yet another response to your comments...like this one...

Kadath

Yeah, she really did put in the work, singing backup for a good few years and managed to succeed. She dropped out of high school after 11th grade to go make it, and did. I hate her music, and I didn't like her much when we were in school together, but she definitely worked for her money.

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