PLEASE NOTE THAT I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH ANY BILLBOARDS, MIKE MEEHAN, OR THE SITE THEREPUBLICANSONG.COM.
If you came here looking for The Republican Song, note that this is the title of a song that I wrote in 1998. I understand there is some idiot apparently too stupid to use Teh Google to find my song who has recently written his own song by that title. This person, Mike Meehan, apparently has paid for some tasteless billboards that say that the largest terrorist attack in American history, which occurred while a Republican was President after said Republican ignored a warning "bin Laden determined to strike in US", can be prevented from happening again by electing, err, the same Republicans who let it happen the first time? Anyhow, without further ado, just click on the big ole link to see...
And just because this moron pissed me off by stealing the title of my song, here's my response:
From: Obama For America (info@barackobama.com) Sent: Tue 7/15/08 11:23 AM To: Eric Green (*censored*@hotmail.com) Dear Eric, Thank you for your generous donation of $250.00. Your gift will be immediately put to work building a campaign to change our country and our politics for the better. Looking for more ways to get involved? Head over to My.BarackObama where our growing set of tools puts the future of this campaign in your hands: http://my.barackobama.com On My.BarackObama you can: - build your own profile and connect with supporters near you - find or create your own local or national group - create your own personal fundraising page and track your progress - find events near you or plan your own - chronicle your campaign experience on your own blog There will be much more to come in the weeks and months ahead thanks to your support. Thank you again for your donation. Obama for America http://www.BarackObama.com
Please note that my political affiliation would probably be more truthfully called "Libertarian". I have no connection to the Democratic Party and, other than the donation I just made, no connection to Barack Obama's campaign. Rather, I am a person who berated loonie lefties back in 2000 that "electing a moderate Republican isn't the disaster that you people say, you're just being alarmist." A doubling of the nation debt, two Vietnams for the price of one, and the worst terrorist attack in American history later, I'm man enough to admit I was wrong.
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Send Eric some Mail (and understand I'll answer it below):
Oooh, I got mail! So here's some of the mail I'm getting: (also see: Part 2)
From: Greg PerkinsDear Greg, thanks for your suggestion. My web site has been up since 1997. His web address is still available and I have nothing to do with it. I will, however, provide a link to it on my web site, since apparently far too many people are incapable of going to http://www.google.com and typing in "the republican song" and clicking on his web site. Thank you for your feedback.
Regardless of who did what first or wrote which song first, in the method of fair play and avoiding accusations of being an underhanded Democrat, you should make available to all-access to his web address. That would serve to be more of a representation of Democratic fair play and speak volumes of the Democratic parties position of being above board. Greg
From Vernon Wood:Vernon, I'm the author of the original "The Republican Song" written in 1998, a satire of Republicans and how they think based on my experience as a (now-reformed) Young Republican. I have no connection to Mike Meehan and his song of the same name which says that the way to prevent future terrorist attacks is to re-elect the people who ignored a memo that said "Bin Laden determined to strike in U.S." and let the worst terrorist attack in American history happen (gah, the stupid, it burns, it burns!). Note that I am not seeking donations of any kind. I am a well-paid engineering manager and have no need whatsoever for any donations of any kind. Thank you!
I wouldn't donate a dime to your song or anything else you are involved in. It is people like you and your ignorance that caused us to find ourselves in this country in a big heap of problems financially and morally.Look at the facts and stop being a bigot--It is the only message you are sending.
From Lager:Thanks for the support, Lager :-).
typed in repubsong to rant at said idiot. happily, i got your site instead. however, now am off to find (and rant/rave at) the idiot anyway. thanks for the uplift on the way.
From: Anonymous Republican Fuck you and obamaYou forgot to accuse me of having cooties too. Ooh, I'm so hurt!
From: Jeff Scott:I'm man enough to admit, two wars, one terror attack, a doubling of the national debt, and a tripling of oil prices later, that I was wrong to say in 2000 that George W. Bush would be a perfectly fine President and that there was nothing wr ong with having a Republican Congress to continue the budget surpluses of the previous years. I was wrong. Sad to say, some folks don't have the balls to admit they were wrong. Pathetic, isn't it?
hey you moron , the attacks on the trade center happen 8 months into ''W's presidency. your an idiot if you think they planned in that amount of time. your stupid president clinton let bin laden go when he was offered up on a silver platter. go ahead and vote for the jerk off barack and you get more attacks with his appeasements , higher gas prices and more communism with the commie dems .
From: Text MessageThank you!
Sweet!
From Peggy TilburyI'm not understanding you. Are you too stupid to go click on that other guy's web site? As far as I know, I have not affected it in any way. My web site has been here since 1997, his web site's still there, as far as I know. (Unless he voluntarily took it down).
I guess only democrats get free speech. There is your e-mail.
From Jimmy:Thanks!
very proud of you!
From OscarAnd another Republican sends email and proves that he cannot read :-)
: Were you the good guy who put up those 3 signs at Orlando Florida? GOOD FOR YOU. I AM SURE THE DEMOCRATS WILL TRASH YOU AS TASTELESS BECAUSE WHAT YOU SAY IS TRUE. I AM SICK OF BEING POLITICALLY CORRECT. DAMN RIGHT I SUPPORT YOU. GREAT JOB.
From: Dr. David N. Penton I suggest you drop the word IDIOT for it shows your lack of vocabulary. When this GENTLEMAN came up with voting for Obama is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sand ers the REPUBLICANS FI NALLY STOOD UP FOR T HEMSELVES. OPM other peoples $. Do it with YOUR OWN $.First of all, thank you for being a worker. I assure you I have no need for donations, and am not soliciting donations, because I, too, am a worker and probably made about as much money as you did last year. Secondly, you may be a worker, but really, your message was incoherent. Is this the best you can do? Do you have some confusion in your mind about the difference between the *real* The Republican Song (the one I wrote in 1998), and this new one written by some Republican to be their latest Horst Wessel Song? I'm sorry, really, you ought to take a writing class or something. Bye!Dr. David N. Penton
a worker not a receiver
From George:Thanks for your support, George. I don't want to sue this guy (even if I had a legal basis to do so -- I don't, song titles can't be copyrighted like that), it's more fun to point and laugh. As for folks who continue to support the Busheviks, well, there's some folks who just will never admit they were wrong. That's just how it is, and how it always has been. Some folks would rather look like total cretins than admit they made a mistake. So it goes.
I just something on CNN (Chicken Noodle News) about that billboard in Orlando and typed in “republicansong.com”. You ought to sue those bastards – hell, you have a copyright. Just to mess with their heads. I bet you could raise the legal fees to do it and fuck'em around a bit.You know, I can never get people who don’t want to dig a little bit to find out the info that’s in plain site. People who don’t understand that the Bushites ignored the warnings about bin Laden and 9/11 was preventable. But hey – they elected that clown 2x (well, maybe just once and that is debatable as well).
From KeithGood advice for anybody thinking of voting Republican this year. Look, we tried that. It hasn't worked. Regardless of any ideological bull****, *IT DID NOT WORK*. The nation is NOT better off today than it was eight years ago. The definition of failure is repeating something that did not work over and over again. And, sad to say, the last seven years have shown that Republican ideology is just massive fail all the way -- they had control of the Presidency, control of Congress for most of those years, and did... uhm... what?
They voted for Bush. They agree with bushs policies. Theyve just about destroyed this country both militarily and economically. Despite this they continue to hold out that conservative policies work which kind looks like insanity imo.You guys failed. You have no credibility left so just give it up . Go back to yer chambers, regroup and retool. Try and take new stances that will help America instead of bankrupt and destroy it.
Its your only hope and I'm saying this for your sake. Take my advice and maybe someday you'll be able to regain a least a bit of that credibilty you have lost. Stop the flailing. You look clueless and pathetic.
From Rochelle Gelfius:And there you have it. According to this Republican, Britney Speares is, like, the best singer ever, because more people have listened to her stuff. Yet another example of Republican "thinking" in action, folks.
Wow, your "Republican Song" must have been a real hit. Must be why no one has ever heard of it. Could you be a little jealous that this other guy is having a ton more hits to his website than yours. Ha!
From: M.J. LedbetterWhy bless your little ole' heart! Regarding the first statement, my own philosophy is to not reward failure. The Republicans have gone against everything they said they were for. They said they were the party of small government, and they bloated up government instead. They said they were the party of keeping America's soldiers at home rather than sending them all over the place as the world's policemen, and now we have not one, but two Vietnams. They said they were going to get government off our back, then passed the No Child Left Behind Act that tells my child's teacher how she has to teach my child, something that ought to be between me, my child's teacher, and my local school board where I can call up my school board member and bitch at her, not some goddamned Federal bureaucrat in Washington D.C. They said they were for balanced budgets, then ran up the biggest budget deficits ever. And so on and so forth. Seven years of that kind of nonsense. There used to be Republicans who were men of principle and honor. But I'll be damned if I can find any of'em in the current bunch. Since this is a democracy rather than a dictatorship, I'll vote for anybody but Republicans this year -- and if the Democrats are as bad as you say, I'll vote them out of office four years from now too. That's democracy. You're supposed to know this stuff.
Blame republicans for what we have now, because dems have only helped Americans, right? I dont wish you well, I wish you lifelong nightmares and paranoia.
From John Graves:You forgot to accuse me of cooties, and bein' Martian too, yessiree! The words accurately describe a man I actually knew, a bigwig in the Houston branch of the Republican Party. Yessiree, an accurate description of a man I actually knew is "socialist". There you have it, folks -- truth is socialist. Thanks for enlightenin' us, John, else we woulda never known that! Uhm, you think you might, like, try to tell us somethin' like, err, what's "socialist" about truth one of these days?
The music is great and the words are just good old socialist crap.
By the way, I chopped off the last sentence of John's little note. I don't use the N word on my home page, no sir. And ole' John was goin' there, he wasn't using the N word exactly, but he was goin' there, yessiree. Sorta like this scene.
From Anthony:Well now, you just accidentally put your finger on the problem I have with political songs. The Republican Song is the closest I've ever gotten to writing a political song because in my opinion, songs aren't for presenting ideals. A good song is something personal, something that makes you feel something, and a song that goes "me good because of reasons x,y,z" is a song that is, well, dull (though I must admit that Yes We Can comes close to your ideal of a positive song of that nature). The only reason my version of The Republican Song doesn't completely suck is because it does leave you with at least one feeling -- "what a jerk that Republican guy is" -- but that's pretty slim pickings for a song to stand on. In short, I do sort of agree with your opinion here. "The Republican Song" is a pretty slender song, which is why I never played mine much after writing it and why the other guy's song by that name, in my opinion, sucks even more.
I do not want to insult people for either their party affiliation or their sense on how the country SHOULD be . But I would just like to point out that a song that makes fun of or puts others down does not really help. Try writing a song that presents your ideals in an uplifting argument rather than putting others down. Why should I agree with your thoughts -- not why should I go against my own. You may get less hateful email.
From: An IndependentWhy thank you!
Ignore the haters. Your Obama donation was the perfect response to the billboard's non-logic. Kudos for publishing the flame-tards, too. You made my day.
From: GennipherWell, Gennipher, I have no need of any money. I got plenty. If you want, you can head over and donate to Obama. Or if there's a food pantry in your community, that's a good place to donate your $5 also, $5 goes a long way there and they need every dollar they can get in this Republican economy that has desperate people being turned away at their doors for lack of food. 'Round here in the Silly Cone Valley where I have my digs at the moment, my suggestion would be to send your money to Martha's Kitchen, they truly do God's work, but without the hate that some folks who pretend to "know God" carry in their hearts.
Keep up the positive attitude and open mind. There's alot of laziness in this world that leads to self-imposed ignorance. People need to understand that it's not about Republicans vs. Democrats. It's about who will do good for our country and for the world. Unfortunately there is just too much $$$$ floating around nowadays to buy out politicians. I loved all the emails on your site too, great responses!!! Like one of them, I stumbled on your site after searching for his. Thank goodness, you cheered me up! :) Do you have a Paypal account that I can donate $5 to (the price of his CD)? What a dingbat.
From Bobby Moyes:And somewhere, another village is missing its idiot... now, I'd give poor Bobby some lessons on proper use of the caps lock key, but really. Some folks just ain't got the sense God gave an armadillo, and ain't nothin' to be done about that but point and laugh.
FUCK OFF DICK HEADYOU SUCK ASS!!!
From Forest Jackson:You forgot to call me a booger-head while you were at it. Mature. Real mature. Meanwhile, listen to the next feller:
Grow a spine a panty waste, limp risked fruit.
From: RichardSadly I believe Richard is going to be disappointed. You got some folks who ain't ever going to admit they was wrong, no matter how stupid it makes them look. I'm man enough to admit it when I was wrong, but some folks, well.
Do you know who trained and financed bin Laden. You republicans have no only a short memory but you attack people without facts. Maybe if you educated yourself, you would find the bushes and bin Laden are in bed together. You would learned that b-movie actor (plus gb,sr, donny rummsfeld, dick cheny, richard perle, and paul wolfowitz were the architects) whose elevator did not go to the top floor Nineteen of the bombers were Saudis, and there were Saudis at Gitmo who georgie boy let go home. A mind is a terrible thing to waste. When finally the light shines on the lies, you will surely be educated.
From: KerryNot happening. The Republican Song is the only "political" song I've ever done. Most of my songs are about losers in trailer parks, lost loves, folks who can't seem to ever get a break, folks who make it out but at a horrific cost, about things I seen on the streets when I was working census or teaching inner city or rural kids... you know, about real life. Politics as practiced today in America with all that name calling and divisiveness and stuff, that ain't real. That's just bull****.
Brilliant... I await a full album... The Republican Song and other dittys of Mass Destruction
From: ColeNot happening. I mentioned why in an earlier post -- a) sorry, no legal case, and b) it's more fun to point and laugh anyhow. Thanks for the feedback though!
I'd say you have a legal case against this douchebag. I suggest taking all of his money.
From: Glenn DominguezThanks. I agree with you talking about people putting party before country being a big, big problem. I don't have any delusions about Obama. In the end he's a politician, and ambition is always going to be his number one priority. But he's got two things going for him: a) he's not a Republican (and I already talked above about how Republican rule over the past eight years has violated every principle the Republicans said they held, and has left the country worse-off than it was eight years ago), and b) he seems to understand that folks are just fed up with people putting partisan bull**** ahead of what's good for the country. I'm willing to give the man a chance. The Republicans... well, they had their chance, and blew it.
I was watching the news and saw the story about the bilboard in Fl. Curious to see what manner of nuts were behind it I googled republicansong.com, which is what I'm sure that 60% of the people who see their sign will remember. What a pleasant, and oh so ironic surprise! Someone spent lots of good dollars for that sign just to have it lead a great number of folks to you. I was thinking that if I had some millions lying around that I didn't need, I would buy or lease the land right after their billboard and erect another one that says: "Republicans aren't through screwing you yet!". If I owned this site I would put that here.Either way, kudos to you for putting your country before any party. With any luck, there are still enough folks out there like you to pull us out of all this crap.
From ChrisPlease don't do that, Chris. That's the sort of thing that a Republican would do. It's more fun to point and laugh anyhow, right?
I tried to find the guy's phone number on Anywho.com but drew a blank. No Meehans in St. Cloud, Florida and I'm reluctant to call all the other M. Meehans in the area (don't want to hassle them any more than they're being hassled right now). However if I could verify a correct phone number for the guy I'd gladly re-program my fax machine to repeatedly re-dial his number trying to send him a fax.