Jeffrey Lewis A Quick Biography of Barack Obama
- 16 years ago
New York City comic book artist and antifolk songwriter/performer Jeffrey Lewis performs his "low budget video" about presidential candidate Barak Obama:
With a father from Kenya and a mother from Kansas,
Barack was born in the storms of our Honolulu Island/
From Jakarta to Hawaii to Columbia U. in New York,
where he studied International Relations and Political Science/
In the '80s, in his 20s, in Chicago, he did plenty,
working as director of Developing Communities/
He started job training programs and tenants' rights organizations,
where folks needed hope he helped at all opportunities/
After doing so much good for Chicago's poor neighborhoods,
Barack saw Europe and Kenya and learned the world is one home/
At Harvard Law School he was elected head of the Law Review,
and as its first black president he first became nationally known/
He kept fightin' for ya as a civil rights lawyer,
and at Chicago U. he taught Constitutional Law/
In the state legislature he worked on welfare and healthcare,
and he was elected to the US Senate in 2004/
As Senator, Barack opposed the wasteful war in Iraq,
he knows people need help more than big corporations/
What happens next is a guess, but I'm hoping that yes,
Barack Obama will become a great president of our nation.
.
With a father from Kenya and a mother from Kansas,
Barack was born in the storms of our Honolulu Island/
From Jakarta to Hawaii to Columbia U. in New York,
where he studied International Relations and Political Science/
In the '80s, in his 20s, in Chicago, he did plenty,
working as director of Developing Communities/
He started job training programs and tenants' rights organizations,
where folks needed hope he helped at all opportunities/
After doing so much good for Chicago's poor neighborhoods,
Barack saw Europe and Kenya and learned the world is one home/
At Harvard Law School he was elected head of the Law Review,
and as its first black president he first became nationally known/
He kept fightin' for ya as a civil rights lawyer,
and at Chicago U. he taught Constitutional Law/
In the state legislature he worked on welfare and healthcare,
and he was elected to the US Senate in 2004/
As Senator, Barack opposed the wasteful war in Iraq,
he knows people need help more than big corporations/
What happens next is a guess, but I'm hoping that yes,
Barack Obama will become a great president of our nation.
.