Barack Obama: The Puppet on the Left

Watching Barack Obama spend the past few weeks now staffing his administration with the most hawkish members of Congress, people from the Clinton administration, and even some people from the Bush administration, I couldn't help but be reminded of Bill Hicks' classic bit about how, when you're elected president, you're taken into a smoky room and shown a film of the Kennedy assassination from a never before seen angle, suspiciously off the grassy knoll.

Bill Hicks' comedy has had a way of remaining oddly prescient years after the fact. The past eight years in particular, you could listen him talk about President Bush and the Iraq War and think he was talking about the present, despite the fact that he died way the fuck back in 1994. I wonder what he would have thought about America electing its first black-ish president.

After the jump is "American Politics," a video I found on YouTube where some guy has taken audio of Bill Hicks discussing his view of politics in America, and added corresponding images from film, TV commercials and what have you. It's actually kinda brillant, in an extra low budget, half-assed sort of way. Someone should take the entire album, Rant in E-Minor, and give it a similar treatment. If they do, and they make any money from it, I should receive some sort of fee. It's not like Bill needs the money now anyway.