And now, Deep Thoughts ... by Neil Young

[Coffee Diva]

Leaked to Fox News of all places, the lyrics to Neil Young's new song “Let’s Impeach the President”:

Let’s impeach the president for lying

And leading our country into war

Abusing all the power that we gave him

And shipping all our money out the door

He’s the man who hired all the criminals

The White House shadows who hide behind closed doors

And bend the facts to fit with their new stories

Of why we have to send our men to war

Let’s impeach the president for spying

On citizens inside their own homes

Breaking every law in the country

By tapping our computers and telephones

What if Al Qaeda blew up the levees

Would New Orleans have been safer that way

Sheltered by our government’s protection

Or was someone just not home that day?

Let’s impeach the president

For hijacking our religion and using it to get elected

Dividing our country into colors

And still leaving black people neglected

Thank god he’s racking down on steroids

Since he sold his old baseball team

There’s lot of people looking at big trouble

But of course the president is clean

Thank God

Smelly old hippie.

[tattered]

i can just hear that Dana Carvey impression of neil young about how every song sounds the same

[YourAmishDaddy]

Never been the biggest Neil Young fan, but already ordered the album, I may buy two for the hell of it.

[mikepop]

The lyrics were on his website.

[B54]

Yes, lets impeach the President, that will solve every problem in America today.

[Coffee Diva]

Yes, lets impeach the President, that will solve every problem in America today.

I, for one, look forward to our new Cheney overlord!

[YourAmishDaddy]

That's what we have now.

For one I am just tired of these politicians altogether. But i'll say it like Lewis Black so eloquently stated it... I simply hate authority. I dish it out to all of them, it just so happens these jackasses are in now, so they get it.

And I'm glad the Bush presidency came along. After the Clinton administration I now remember that shit comes in two forms.

[Brady T cell]

Neil Young should die in a fire.
Wow! You hate Bush, how original. we get it already.

Yet another left leaning dork who finds it easier to be a critic than to offer an alternate answer.

[YourAmishDaddy]

I suggest more research into Neil Young's career, tell me, when all those hippies were bashing Johnson were they "left leaning" too?

[jagsfans]

Forgive my ignorance, but I was'nt born during the Vietnam War. All the news and documentary footage I see show more demonstrations during the Nixon part of the war more than the Johnson. Am I mistaken on this?

[Shpadoinkle]

Wow this is pretty straight forward. What happened to the poetry and deeper meaning in these protest type songs? Now people are just lazy. These lyrics look like he just took every complaint from moveon.org then just made them rhyme.

[Coffee Diva]

I suggest more research into Neil Young's career, tell me, when all those hippies were bashing Johnson were they "left leaning" too?

Well, actually ... yes.

[YourAmishDaddy]

Forgive my ignorance, but I was'nt born during the Vietnam War. All the news and documentary footage I see show more demonstrations during the Nixon part of the war more than the Johnson. Am I mistaken on this?

Nixon got a lot of shit, but Johnson got the brunt of it, deservedly.

[Sinn Fein]

Life sure is easy when you're a multi-millionaire musician. I guess somehow that gives you all the answers...

[sclone]

I don't understand some of these responses. Look, the song doesn't seem to be all that well-written, but you don't think there are a lot of people who share his opinion?

"Neil Young should die in a fire... Yet another left leaning dork who finds it easier to be a critic than to offer an alternate answer."

Why would Neil Young offer alternate answers? Music is the last place I'd ever look for detailed explanations and theories about how to solve our problems. Can't it just serve as an instrument to convey emotion/opinions? (Feel free to add MAAAAAAAAAN here to your liking).

"Life sure is easy when you're a multi-millionaire musician. I guess somehow that gives you all the answers..."

I don't understand this either. Because he has money, what, he should have no opinions?

This isn't like an actor who decides to define his public persona by speaking out about this or that. He's a musician who relies on his music to convey messages. I understand disagreeing with his opinion, and even pointing out it's lyrical garbage, but why the attack mode?

[YourAmishDaddy]

Everybody is so wrapped up in that R and that D... that's all it is. The minute someone comes along, not just Young, but anyone that comes along and just lays the stuff out in simple order, no bullshit, and just tells it like it is all these people that do all this partisan nonsense, and cheerleading, and being loyal and faithful just can't fathom it's just that simple. It's nothing more than like taking a girlfriend to a hockey game and watching her pick the team with the prettiest colors and cheering like there's no tomorrow. They don't care about stats, about penalties, goals, nothing but their "team" is winning.

That's politics today.

People have invested so much of themselves into this ideological bullshit if anything comes along that challenges their fantasy beliefs the first instinct is attack.

The fact is they're all garbage. and as long as people keep propping up this garbage in society like their shit doesn't smell and rays of sun fly out of their asses we'll always be in this mess.

[jagsfans]

I don't understand some of these responses. Look, the song doesn't seem to be all that well-written, but you don't think there are a lot of people who share his opinion?

"Neil Young should die in a fire... Yet another left leaning dork who finds it easier to be a critic than to offer an alternate answer."

Why would Neil Young offer alternate answers? Music is the last place I'd ever look for detailed explanations and theories about how to solve our problems. Can't it just serve as an instrument to convey emotion/opinions? (Feel free to add MAAAAAAAAAN here to your liking).

"Life sure is easy when you're a multi-millionaire musician. I guess somehow that gives you all the answers..."

I don't understand this either. Because he has money, what, he should have no opinions?

This isn't like an actor who decides to define his public persona by speaking out about this or that. He's a musician who relies on his music to convey messages. I understand disagreeing with his opinion, and even pointing out it's lyrical garbage, but why the attack mode?

Have you ever criticized Toby Keith or any other country stars for their jingoistic ballads? This is the exact same thing except on the opposite end of the political spectrum. Critics of Bush get upset about those mindless postures of support, just like some are angry about Neil Young's song that is perceived to be not very well thought out and instead just attacks.

[sclone]

Have you ever criticized Toby Keith or any other country stars for their jingoistic ballads? This is the exact same thing except on the opposite end of the political spectrum. Critics of Bush get upset about those mindless postures of support, just like some are angry about Neil Young's song that is perceived to be not very well thought out and instead just attacks.

You make a valid point, but when was the last time someone posted some Toby Keith lyrics for a good bashing? Nobody really cares. For some reason, when it's a liberal bashing Bush, he should die in a fire...

And anyway, here are the lyrics to a much more creative anti-Bush sing-along...

"The Man I Killed" by NOFX

When they tightly strap me in, give me lethal injection,
Just a few moments to live, no remorse for what I did,
Was for the betterment of man, I gave the utmost sacrifice,
Before more damage could be done I took his life.

There was a split second of silence when the dart punctured the skin,
Beady eyes rolled back in head, the body dropped from the poison,
They could incapacitate me, but could not erase my sneer,
I heard a thousand people screaming, while three billion others cheered,
He was gone, and I would soon be...

Executed by the state, all appeals would be in vain,
I was not criminally insane, in fact I was found to be,
An otherwise caring and respectable member of society,
A minor threat except for that one man I killed.

As the sedatives take effect, I just smile, close my eyes,
There's a priest kneeling next to me, he asks me if I realize,
I was going straight to hell, and he thought that I should know,
That the man I killed's replacement planned this whole scenario,
And what I did had no significance at all.

[jagsfans]

You make a valid point, but when was the last time someone posted some Toby Keith lyrics for a good bashing? Nobody really cares. For some reason, when it's a liberal bashing Bush, he should die in a fire...


On this site? Never. I don't think a lot of wackbaggers know country music exists. Not that anyone should.

My point is country stars take a ton of shit for espousing opinions that others don't share. I think Neil Young can take the same ribbing. You wanna put yourself out there you should expect it. Anyways, I havent liked Young since Lynyrd Skynyrd told me not to.

[YourAmishDaddy]

My question is really more why do people share these opinions? As if any of these politicians care about you. It's just the popular thing to do at any given time on either side. Just like when Toby Keith or in this case Neil Young say these things in songs who cares? The ones who do are mainly the easily influenced people who aren't involved in enough thought to look deeper into it.

What's that line "We'll put a boot in your ass cause it's the American way" that was just the most laughable thing to me when I heard it. How are we putting a "boot in these peoples asses" by feeding Iraqis and paying for health care and clothing and creating a Muslim welfare state?

Yeah, that was the big thing... They come over here and knock down the WTC and kill 3,000 people, and we go over there and feed them and rebuild Iraq 70 times over when the WTC is STILL a hole in the ground 5 years after 9-11?

That's gonna show em... "You attack us again and we... we... we're gonna make you vote, mister... That'll teach you.."

I can see people in the inner cities now lobbing Buicks into buildings if that's gonna be the definition of retaliation.

[FreeTheCricket]

That's all fine and dandy, but Bush STILL hasn't done a single thing that can even remotely be considered an impeachable offense. Neil Young is just proving that he has no idea about the way the US government works.

[YourAmishDaddy]

Oh please

[abudabit]

It's Neil Young, calmo everbody.

He's no Bruce Springstein. Not one unemployed factory reference. Neil will learn though.

[YourAmishDaddy]

Also, like many people Neil was onboard for a long time. He even supported the Patriot Act. But seriously, at this point it's not a Bush thing, there are plenty of conservatives against Iraq, and no one on this board can even say the modern GOP is the "party of limited government" anymore.

Time to just cut the losses and move on with this bunch.

[B54]

Oh please

Was that directed at FTC's previous comment?

He is right, what has Bush done that is impeachable?

[turdfrgsn]

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well i heard mr. young sing about her
i heard ol' neil put her down
well i hope neil young will remember
a southern man don't need him around anyhow

[YourAmishDaddy]

Was that directed at FTC's previous comment?

He is right, what has Bush done that is impeachable?

That's fairly easy. He's failed to uphold his oath of office. He's systematically and intentionally undermined Section 4 Article 4 under the Constitution. Not only under his tenure has he failed to secure the borders in a "time of war" of his own machinations, but has led to even more failure of this by compounding the problem. Pulling border guards off the patrols. Proposing amnesties, and allowing foreign nationals access to vital infrastructure.

He's systematically undermined his oath to uphold the Constitution by violating the 4th Amendment rights of each and every American. Violating the FISA laws is a gross and egregious crime.

He's failed to keep his oath of office by violating separations of powers on numerous occasions. Only Congress has the delegated duty to declare war, in such placing the authority to the executive the powers of "commander in chief" Congress has so woefully abrogated their duties so we now have an executive branch more powerful than the other two.

A president, like Congress takes an oath to defend and uphold the Constitution, no matter what. It is foolishness to even propose destroying it in order to "keep us safe"

Put simply war was never declared, being it hasn't the executive does not have the authority of "commander in chief" and even if it were, the Bill of Rights shall not be infringed upon, for any reason.

Shall I go on, or do you just believe that eviscerating due process, habeus corpus, and the like are just matters of convenience?

And the last thing I want to hear is "everyone else does it" Violating the Constitution is the last thing that can be justtified with the "et tu" defense.

[BIV]

Now, now. Leave Brutis out of this.

[FreeTheCricket]

That's fairly easy. He's failed to uphold his oath of office. He's systematically and intentionally undermined Section 4 Article 4 under the Constitution. Not only under his tenure has he failed to secure the borders in a "time of war" of his own machinations, but has led to even more failure of this by compounding the problem. Pulling border guards off the patrols. Proposing amnesties, and allowing foreign nationals access to vital infrastructure.

He's systematically undermined his oath to uphold the Constitution by violating the 4th Amendment rights of each and every American. Violating the FISA laws is a gross and egregious crime.

He's failed to keep his oath of office by violating separations of powers on numerous occasions. Only Congress has the delegated duty to declare war, in such placing the authority to the executive the powers of "commander in chief" Congress has so woefully abrogated their duties so we now have an executive branch more powerful than the other two.

A president, like Congress takes an oath to defend and uphold the Constitution, no matter what. It is foolishness to even propose destroying it in order to "keep us safe"

Put simply war was never declared, being it hasn't the executive does not have the authority of "commander in chief" and even if it were, the Bill of Rights shall not be infringed upon, for any reason.

Shall I go on, or do you just believe that eviscerating due process, habeus corpus, and the like are just matters of convenience?

And the last thing I want to hear is "everyone else does it" Violating the Constitution is the last thing that can be justtified with the "et tu" defense.

That's all wonderful, but NONE of it is impeachable under the laws. They may be poor decisions and make him a shitty president, but you can't impeach a president for being shitty.

[YourAmishDaddy]

Public schools, right? :action-sm

[roche]

Have you ever criticized Toby Keith or any other country stars for their jingoistic ballads? This is the exact same thing except on the opposite end of the political spectrum. Critics of Bush get upset about those mindless postures of support, just like some are angry about Neil Young's song that is perceived to be not very well thought out and instead just attacks.

You know what is funny about that? Toby Keith is actually a lifelong Democrat.

Not Neil Youngs best album, but it is pretty damned good in my opinion.