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Hawrtbrayker: Bush contributed $87 billion dollars and several hundred thousand US troops to Iraq, a country with no association to the groups that attacked our country, and he's the one that is the only person who is willing to do something about terrorism? That is a ridiculous statement. Bush has done more to keep Bin Laden alive than anyone else. If he had spent that money and used those troops in Afghanistan and Pakistan, we'd have Bin Laden already. But we don't. And we won't, for a long time. President Bush drove us into a ditch. Do you really want to let him sit and spin the tires, or do you want to admit you were wrong and call a tow truck?

I just saw the music video for this. I don't like the way the song sounds too much musically, but I couldn't agree more with the lyrics.

And guys please don't get into yet another bush arguement, this site already has plenty of them.

Dope song, great video.

Fuck Bush...this song tells it how it is...

I don't know what the fuck the guy above me is trying to say, Eminem is obviously very anti-Bush.

As am I, I think this is one of his best songs.

Is eminem just trying to sell records by once again being controversial, or is he really making a song about his political views?

Haahhaa...This song is cool. I basicaly love anything Anti-Bush.....Yay!

This song doesn't make sense at all....oh wait, we're talking about Emininem who has never made sense in his life. He talks about pumping his fist against Bin Laden and that maybe his speach will reach Al Queda, but yet he's against the only person who seems to want to do anything about Al Queda...aka President Bush!

If Eminem really thinks his stupid little rhymes will influence Al Queda, his is just as naive as the rest of those left wing, hollywood types. Yeah, lets use our words to get to Bin Laden and Al Queda...lets just talk with them about it. Yeah, I'd like to see Eminem talk to Bin Laden....he'd be the next person on their home made videos getting his bleach-ass head cut off and then I won't have to listen to this crap any more.

Anyone who is ANTI-TERRORISM must be PRO-BUSH...I guess I mean anyone who is ant-terrorism and has a functioning brain....Eminem obviously doesn't.

Obviously you guy's don't get it that Eminem dosn't give a f*ck about what others think. Him being controversial is what he does, thats how he gets HIS money. Just becase half of the stuff he says he dosn't actually do, dosn't mean he might not actually feel what he means behind all it.

He is just angry, like alot of other people in this country. He's just lucky he gets paid to vent his anger.

Funny thing, what he says doesn't matter. He rants, he raves and we both can do it really. I agree with tarnok, here. I just saw the video on the GNN website, it is a slick infusion of rhymes and animation but it only goes so far. This imagery of young people donning black hoodies and rampaging a state building to sign up to vote is completely and wholly unrealistic. Gore Vidal said it best, he voiced that Democrats and Republicans are really two wings of the same party. If the above scenarios were realistic, every black-hooded person would write Eminem in on the ballot and neither candidate would be elected. Even if you crowd up all the young people to vote in Eminem, you could never amass the popular voting power of their elders (parents and grandparents) because they outnumber my generation twofold. Bush and Kerry would still win the presidency. The ones who are truly in charge, the ones who are truly threatened, would make sure every bit zealotry that is taken as truth by the masses would be vanquished before its taken on as an axiom in the arena of common sense. It's common sense that anybody who is elevated to a position of popularity will surely turn out like their successors. Absolute power corrupts absolutely and with human nature being what it is (social for survival unless egged on into conflict), I guarantee you Eminem would make a fabulous addition to that long list of political failures much like Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Jesse Ventura, Harry Truman, Elizabeth I, etc. I foresee Schwarzenegger and Affleck becoming additions to that list.

The point is this: songs like this bring out false hope and this is another song that falls on that false hope list. They are unrealistic and only for the moment. They don't offer a method for curing human nature. If you want a truthful song about politics, "Won't Get Fooled Again" by The Who is maybe the best example that comes to mind about the perpetual state of politics and human nature. That's true mood music if you want my opinion on the subject. Eminem's deceiving himself, there is no way around the power-hungry aspect of human nature. I am liberal in my heart but I'm both a realist and a liberal in my head, I'm torn like that.

If this essay is removed from the boards, I sincerely apologize for torquing anybody off but I think it had to be said.