Burt Bacharach Sings Obama Blues

I had to laugh when I picked up the Wall Street Journal today and read 'What the Songwriting World Needs Now', an opinion article by songwriter Burt Bacharach. Apparently, Burt is incensed that antiquated 1941 federal licensing laws governing vinyl records still prevail over the current world of ubiquitous headphones that can access 30 million tracks through any mobile device. Under federal consent decree only two groups, Ascap and BMI, can negotiate and collect fees for songwriters from businesses.  If the parties disagree,  the Federal Judges are the arbiters that set the value of songwriters' work--instead of the open free marketplace. Hmmn... sounds like Burt is a little too greedy here? The Hollywood liberals sure scream when government regulations affect their pocketbooks. How do liberals think that is any different with private insurance companies setting their values through government regulations with Obamacare? 

At an annual Grammy Awards Show Burt Bacharach said, "I've never seen times like we've got right now. I'm really upset. This is the future I'm leaving behind for these [my] kids, and I'm concerned. I think we've really made a mess of it. If the president had just gotten up and said, 'I made a mistake. I take full blame for it. There are no weapons of mass destruction; our information was wrong. Bear with me and we'll get through this together.' But to be stonewalled--" Bacharach shook his head. "I never like to be lied to by a girlfriend or an agent. And certainly not the president of the United States."

The Liberal Daily Kos blog then commented: "More importantly, I think Burt gave us a nice sound byte/meme to spread: "We don't like it when they are lied to by friends and family. And we certainly don't like it when we're lied to by the President."--Lather, rinse and repeat as necessary." [It deserves saying over and over again]

Those comments, by the way, were at the 2006 Grammy Awards Show during the Bush presidency--I wonder why Burt or the Daily Kos, at the least, hasn't addressed our current President Obama about his multitude of lies when he met President Obama at an awards dinner at the White House on May 9, 2012 he should have sung a medley of his song titles to get his ideas out. 

The medley might have sounded like: Barack always "Promises, Promises" that "Any day now" while Barack is "Always something there to Remind me" that he "Knows when to leave" as Burt swears "I'll never fall in love again" after the 2016 election when "The house is empty now" thinking "I'll say a little prayer" for "What the world needs now" is a new President in the White House.