Obama Jugend singt für Änderung

Cross-posted from The Real Barack Obama –mainly because watching those Children Who Know Not What This Means just sickened me and I simply couldn’t handle writing about it myself. Their parents are young. They do not know their history very well. At all. You can’t blame them. But I cannot forgive Barack Obama for stimulating this kind of behavior from Another Time and Another Place. I knew. I knew when I saw his first rally where his Playbook resided. This post must have been very difficult for Procrustes to gather. I am grateful. And afraid.

Obama Jugend singt für Änderung (Updated)
October 1, 2008
Top text: “Youth serves the leader.” Bottom text: “All teens into the Hitler Youth”

Townhall.com’s Amanda Carpenter wrote September 30, 2008, about the “video circulating on the internet of school-aged children singing in support of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama [that] is rocketing its way around the Internet.”

The Drudge Report linked to the YouTube video declaring “Obama Kids Sing for Dear Leader” Tuesday afternoon drawing much attention to a performance of 22 children, aged 5-12, wearing identical blue Obama shirts singing a 3-minute ode to the Democratic candidate. [No Quarter posted the video and commentary yesterday afternoon; this is a new take on the story.]

The performance was “inspired” by Obama fundraiser and music teacher Kathy Sawada and filmed on a Sunday afternoon in Venice, California.

The video was promoted on Obama’s presidential website in an August 20 post. “What the children and a few adults accomplished in a few hours on a Sunday afternoon embodies the nature of the Obama campaign: its grassroots inspiration, its inclusiveness, its community building,” Obama’s campaign site said of the video.

Music and Lyrics

Via Ed Morrissey at Hot Air we learn the video was produced by “Jeff Zucker, Holly Schiffer, Peter Rosenfeld, Darin Moran, Jean Martin, Andy Blumenthal, and Nick Phoenix.”

The lyrics below were taken from Obama’s official campaign website:

WE’RE GONNA CHANGE THE WORLD
Music and lyrics by Lily Campbell

We’re gonna spread happiness
We’re gonna spread freedom
Obama’s gonna change it
Obama’s gonna lead ‘em

We’re gonna change it
And rearrange it
We’re gonna change the world.

SING FOR CHANGE
Music and lyrics by Kathy Sawada

Now’s the moment, lift each voice to sing
Sing with all your heart!
For our children, for our families,
Nations all joined as one.
Sing for joy and sing abundant peace,
Courage, justice, hope!
Sing together, hold each precious hand,
Lifting each other up;
Sing for vision, sing for unity,
Lifting our hearts to Sing!

YES WE CAN
Music and lyrics by Kathy Sawada

Yes we can
Lift each other up
In peace, in love, in hope
Change! Change!

YouTube Links come … and … go

Here’s a YouTube link to an audio only version courtesy of Glenn Beck, posted September 20, 2008, as “O’ Hail the Messiah Lord Obama” by AmericaAgainstObama.

A second YouTube link for a contemporary video of the Hitler Jugend has since been taken down by YouTube and is no longer available.

The following comment accompanied the YouTube links:

Please notice the person leading the children….This is what is done in Communist Countries to children….In Russia, China, Cuba, North Korea, etc. If this doesn’t make you vote for McCain/Palin Then good luck….

Wayback Machine

Captain Thurston at The Big Feed Blog passes along the link to Hitler Jugend singing “Our Hitler is our Lord”:

One commenter on Carpenter’s post commented:

Lenni Riefenstahl organized the Nuremburg rallies and directed Hitler’s propaganda “films”. She’d LOVE this. Covers a total lack of ability and experience with spectacle.

Richard Fernandez at Pajamas Media offers “Lenin’s Little Potatoes” for comparison:

Or how about this February 2007 North Korean rally? (h/t Ed Morrissey at Hot Air)

More:

InsightAnalytical-GRL says this is Obama’s Very Own Cultural Revolution.

Update:

If the link to this YouTube video goes down, here’s the link to No-Libs.com, which has the embedded non-YouTube link.