Comrade

Comrades Barack Obama, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
Comrades Barack Obama, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev

“My new comrade.”

That’s what Russian president Dmitry Medvedev called Barack Obama.

Heck, we’ve known his as Comrade Obama for some time.

I’m just waiting on a bailout bill to include a provision for a new song to replace the Star Spangled Banner.

18 Comments

  1. Berlusconi is a crook and Medvedev is a pansy Putin puppet with a cute baby face (“He can’t be a communist, can he, Daddy?”). Hell, Obama is the biggest communist at the G-20 summit, Basil. He probably outranks even the Chinese guy (what’s-his-name, Wang Dong Long, or something.).

  2. Der Song of Der Peephole

    The world is a great big pie
    America’s a slice
    We have stolen all we have from you
    We’ve not been very nice

    So please take all we own
    We want to now be fair
    We’ll slash our wrists, we’ll cut our throats
    Just so you know we care

    You have been so wise and we’re so dumb
    We have put you all through hell
    Our last crap sandwich we serve you now
    Is Barry and Michelle

  3. Basil, I know they’ll probably want to spend more money on a new anthem, but wouldn’t “We Are The World” do just fine? You know, basic feelgood drivel sung by santimonious hollywood types.

    Some of you guys may be too young to remember but this song was intended to raise money for world causes. Instead, it caused a reaction more like the “barf-o-rama” scene in Stand By Me.

  4. The Russian president obviously realized he’s dealing with a Master communist. Obama’s probably already told him that within the next four years, next to the US, Russia will look like a free market paradise…the operative word being “free.”

  5. It just goes to show how little people know of our National Anthem. If Obummer actually knew there were four verses, and what the verses said, it would’ve been changed in his first week.

    O! say can you see by the dawn’s early light
    What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming.
    Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
    O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming.
    And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
    Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
    O! say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
    O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

    On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
    Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
    What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
    As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
    Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
    In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
    ‘Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
    O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

    And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
    That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion,
    A home and a country should leave us no more!
    Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps’ pollution.
    No refuge could save the hireling and slave
    From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
    And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
    O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

    O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
    Between their loved home and the war’s desolation!
    Blest with victory and peace, may the heav’n rescued land
    Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
    Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
    And this be our motto: ‘In God is our trust.’
    And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
    O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave![9]

  6. I remember when I asked my Russian wife if comrade was pronounced the same in Russian as in English. She went on a rant about how stupid a word it was, and how only communist retards were the only ones to ever use it seriously. She also said that Comrade is almost only used outside the communist party, when you are mocking someone for being a leftist idiot. So either Medvedev has finally came out of the communist closet, or he was underhandedly mocking our fearless leader. Could be trying to get back at Obama for that whole reset button thing.

  7. #6-We are the World was the first thought I had. I think that would be right up there alley. Maybe a secondary theme, The old I’d like to buy the world a Coke, and you can mean soda, or nose candy. Should go over well on the coasts. Have Hollywood idiots sing this also. O.k., I’m making myself want to puke. Comrade, my a$$! That term shouldn’t be used unless one is watching old Hogan’s Heroes marathons. I agree with whoever above said that Medvedev is a front. Come on, Putin is driving that war plane. He’s the one we should be watching out for.

  8. The former commie Ruskies aren’t using their old one which is kind of a catchy tune. Maybe we could buy it from them for say…..a trillion dollars. They can use the money for toilet paper which has always been in short supply there.

  9. Actually since the late 90’s, the official Russian anthem is the same tune used for the “Hymn of the Soviet Union,” but purged of Soviet language. They’re really good at purging over there. The Russian anthem they should have used instead was “God Save the Tsar.”

    Marvin, the word for “comrade” that you were looking for is “товарищ” (“tovarish”).

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