I never really get around to reading the New York Times’ songwriting blog, Measure for Measure, even though I am the target audience: A music-obsessed trivia hound who consumes news online all day.

So, in an effort to address this problem, I read a few posts tonight. Lo and behold, what do I find, but Jeffrey Lewis explaining his effort at making one of his “low budget videos” that consist of singing and comic book page-turning. In this edition, Jeff wrote a short bio/ode to then-just Sen. Barack Obama in his effort to be political for the political season:

Maybe, I thought, I could instead write a song just about Obama that would bring forward a lot of what I find positive about him that has been lost in his recent over-cautious, swing-vote conscious rhetoric-go-round: civil rights attorney, neighborhood organizer, grassroots voter-registration hero, that sort of thing. Not the man who says he wants to “kill Osama Bin Laden” (pardon me for preferring courts of law to lynch mobs). So I decided I would attempt a one-minute song-biography of the man.

The result:

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