A Quick Biography of Barack Obama by Jeffrey Lewis

New York City comic book artist and antifolk songwriter/performer Jeffrey Lewis performs his "low budget video" about presidential candidate Barack Obama
With a father from Kenya and a mother from Kansas,
Barack was born in the storms of our Honolulu Island/
From Jakarta to Hawaii to Columbia U. in New York,
where he studied International Relations and Political Science/
In the '80s, in his 20s, in Chicago, he did plenty,
working as director of Developing Communities/
He started job training programs and tenants' rights organizations,
where folks needed hope he helped at all opportunities/
After doing so much good for Chicago's poor neighborhoods,
Barack saw Europe and Kenya and learned the world is one home/
At Harvard Law School he was elected head of the Law Review,
and as its first black president he first became nationally known/
He kept fightin' for ya as a civil rights lawyer,
and at Chicago U. he taught Constitutional Law/
In the state legislature he worked on welfare and healthcare,
and he was elected to the US Senate in 2004/
As Senator, Barack opposed the wasteful war in Iraq,
he knows people need help more than big corporations/
What happens next is a guess, but I'm hoping that yes,
Barack Obama will become a great president of our nation.
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[boitheimeach]

aww jeff! no. fuck. doing this right after releasing a crass cover album??

your smarter than this bandwagon shit.

[clairedelune49]

Well, consider the alternative.

[RenardRoberts]

Well, he got that fucker wrong...

[DNI12333]

It's almost as if young and minority voters were able to relate to a candidate who wasn't a white guy from an extremely rich family, and were aware of the fact that Bush had been running the country into the ground for EIGHT CONSECUTIVE MOTHERFUCKING YEARS. But no, it's clearly because he's half black AFFIRMATIVE ACTION GEORGE SOROS ACORN ACORN ACORN RAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH. Enjoy your newfound political irrelevance you racist sack of shit..

[bluntpunk83]

cant win them all

[hmmmmSeriously]

I know this probably seemed like a good idea at the time...

[Yarrrgh]

learning can be fun!

[anarchopinko]

@clairedelune49 - I just stumbled on this video. 2 years after your comment I hope you see Obama is just business as usual and like his predecessor, is just another warmonger.

[LordRassy]

Why did America re-elect george bush?

[trix2810]

Love his optimism!

[radioamor]

@clairedelune49

Yes, a race to the bottom of justifying the lesser of two evils!!! That's just what our post-Citizens United America needs!

Jesus, grow a spine...

[timothyxmcveigh]

Democrat or republican they're all repitlian shapeshifter scum! :)

[MrPocketGroover]

@EJ1012Kinkos hahahahahaha no!