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Posted by Glum at 7:39 PM




You have to watch the conductor and how the band responds to his every gesture to understand this post.

One of the only things I can compare this too is marching band. (Just bear with me for a second.) I am as tired all both of you with the lack of better candidates. Josh, you could even admit that there were far more qualified candidates on the Democratic side of things than Obama for President. I agree that even though McCain isn't the most ideal candidate, his goods definately outweigh Obama's goods and bads. In comparison to a well directed marching band it takes skill, precision, and pin point accuracy to know how to direct a group of highly talented and qualified musicians. Having directed a prestigious band for two years in college, I know what that entails. No one in their right mind would pretend to have that kind of skill set, be awarded that position and know the first place to begin if they didn't have the training. Obama has none of that. At least McCain has learned how to read music, play an instrument and marched in a few bands. Obama has just picked up his recorder to squeek out Puff the Magic Dragon. Experience must be in play here. (No pun intended.) I hope this makes sense, becuase it did to me at least.

 

2 Comments:

  1. Glum said...
    September 12, 2008 at 8:19 PM  
    Even if the comparison is cheesy, you have to admit the video is pretty cool.
    Josh said...
    September 12, 2008 at 11:01 PM  
    Yea, I need to get some clam diggers like that. Oh, the band analogy's could go on forever.

    I won't say you're tooting your own horn but your obvious West-Coast Band arrogance is telling. Foisting on us your trumpet toting superiority. Just because you can pretend that you have perfect pitch doesn't mean that you're better than the rest of us. I'm so sick of all this fascist right-wing tuba conspiracy stuff anyway. Where are all the unbiased flautists? What happened to the just and honest piccoloists? And what do you have against professional recorder-ists? Do you truly believe that there something categorically wrong with Puff the Magic Dragon? Do you think pot-smoking hippy folk singers are terrorists? Are you saying recorders are the instrument of Satan himself? Should the president were blue tropical jammers to his inauguration? Where's the vibraphone player?

    I'm gonna say that, while well meant, you're analogy doesn't fit. Georgie Porgie ain't no leader of the band. Our greatest President 'lead' our country through a civil war, and that ain't whistlin' dixie. Bill Clinton played the sax and managed, somehow, to not ruin the reputation of moral and chaste saxophonists for generations to come. McCain may know how to read music but he's the one following the lobbyist pipers. And Barack Obama was raised in Hawaii so that means he probably touched the Ukulele at some point in his life which is infinitely more impressive and important than having an extensive collection of Barry Manilow 45's like old McWarpants does.

    Nobody in this country will follow any president like a conductor in this day and age unless they are in uniform. A president doesn't direct, I hardly even dare for a president who inspires. And if John McCain can 'knows how to read music' then he certainly has changed his tune in the past month. Some say he follows the beat of his own drum but we all know that it's Rovian thugs who are beating the drum and telling McCain where to row to. And what's with the new girl with the 'idiot's guide to basic Music Theory' whose upstaging Mr. McConductor. Just last week she was got her hands on her first harmonica and now she claims to be a piano virtuoso.

    McCain's drum needs a little tightening.

    He might be playing the right song, but he's missing all of the notes.

    You don't need to read music when you're playing the blues.

    John McCain is like Vanilla Ice. When he was confronted about how the music in his song was identical to someone else's music good ol' frosty said:

    Their song goes da-dum-diddy-dum-diddy-d'dum dum, and my song goes da-dum-diddy-dum-diddy-Dum-dum. See? They're totally different!

    John McCain:

    "I voted with Bush %90 percent of the time." "We're the original Mavericks!"

    See? They're totally different! That's Change!

    You're right though Derrick. Sometime we all just need to stop, collaborate, and listen. Ice is back with a brand new... oh, wait. Sorry.

    Will you still feed me, will you still need me, when I'm 74?
    -John McCain

    Oh, and how could I forget the lyrics from Dan Folgerberg classic, every bandleaders inspiration, "leader of the band."

    'The leader of the band is tired and his eyes are growing old."
    MmmmmmmmmmmmmCcain!

    Alright, that's enough. I'll stop.

    But you can't stop the music.

    Da-NA-na-na nananan-NA!

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