"We paid our dues, where's our change?"
De
oorlogshitser Barack Obama werd op een fundraising dinner ($5.000 p.p.) getrakteerd op een protestlied gericht op het gevangenhouden van Bradley Manning, de Amerikaanse soldaat die informatie lekte naar WikiLeaks:
Voor wie wil meezingen, de lyrics:
Dear Mr President we honour you today,
Each of us brought you $5,000
It takes a lot of Benjamins* to run a campaign
I paid my dues, where's our change?
We'll vote for you in 2012, yes that's true,
Look at the Republicans - what else can we do?
Even though we don't know if we'll retain our liberties,
In what you seem content to call a free society.
Yes it's true that Terry Jones is legally free,
To burn a people's holy book in shameful effigy.
But at another location in this country,
Alone in a six by 12 cell sits Bradley.
Twenty-three hours a day and night,
The fifth and eighth amendments say,
This kind of thing ain't right.
We paid our dues, where's our change?