Better prose than I can write has been written about the ridiculousness of the village narrative that heiress-marrying, $520-shoes-wearing John McCain is a regular schmo while not-heiress-marrying self-made success Barack Obama is really Elizabeth Taylor with a monocle, and the subtext of McCain's inane ad that adds a scoop of protect-the-white-girls a la Harold Ford to the whole thing.
We did write a song about it, though. Enjoy "One of The Regulars."
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One of the Regulars
Implied association with questionable subjectsScraping the songs of the south for the subtextTo prop up a myth of epic proportionsOf a silver-spoon child dressed as an orphan
Lockstep lips joined at the hip, why we even try?The teleprompters are all cued up for the village to keep on repeating the lie of
One of the regulars, like the ones you see all dayJust one of the regulars with desert and beach estatesJust one of the regulars, started small and married upJust one of the regulars, just like us, just like us
They overlook the sheer contradictionA comparison based in pure utter fictionComplaints of mistreatment from a media darlingIf you crunch up the numbers it adds up to nothing
The picture reads more easily painted in shades of whiteThrowing stones from a house of glass bigger and nicer than the target site
From one of the regulars, like the ones you see all dayJust one of the regulars with desert and beach estatesJust one of the regulars, started small and married upJust one of the regulars, just like us, just like us
So tell me a story, baseless and fact devoidA self-made man in opera glasses staring down at the hoi polloiA selection of McMansions, an heiress on your armLike regular Joes, like you and I knowIn a magical land, you'll find them wherever you go
Just like one of the regulars, like the ones you see all dayJust one of the regulars with desert and beach estatesJust one of the regulars, started small and married upJust one of the regulars, just like us, just like us
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