When the President Talks to God

Every once in a while, I miss a moment in pop culture and am sorry I wasn't glued more tightly to my television. I was travelling when Justin bared Janet's breast on the Superbowl, and went to bed early the night Sinead O'Connor ripped up the Pope's picture on Saturday Night Live.
This week, it was the amazing performance by Bright Eyes on The Tonight Show that I missed.
Wow! Who would have thought that GE-owned NBC television would broadcast this?
And how have two days gone by without the right wing threatening boycotts, fines, etc.
I had never heard Bright Eyes before I encountered this video clip, but I am a new fan, happy to shell out $$$ for his CDs.
As for Jay Leno, this helps to make up for his giving Governor Arnold a forum to announce his candidacy a few years ago. But I did note that right-wing hag Ann Coulter is on his guest list for next week.
Here's the lyrics to the Bright Eyes song, as posted on DailyKos:

"When the President Talks to God"

When the president talks to God

Are the conversations brief or long?

Does he ask to rape our women's' rights

And send poor farm kids off to die?

Does God suggest an oil hike

When the president talks to God?

When the president talks to God

Are the consonants all hard or soft?

Is he resolute all down the line?

Is every issue black or white?

Does what God say ever change his mind

When the president talks to God?

When the president talks to God

Does he fake that drawl or merely nod?

Agree which convicts should be killed?

Where prisons should be built and filled?

Which voter fraud must be concealed

When the president talks to God?

When the president talks to God

I wonder which one plays the better cop

We should find some jobs. the ghetto's broke

No, they're lazy, George, I say we don't

Just give 'em more liquor stores and dirty coke

That's what God recommends

When the president talks to God

Do they drink near beer and go play golf

While they pick which countries to invade

Which Muslim souls still can be saved?

I guess god just calls a spade a spade

When the president talks to God

When the president talks to God

Does he ever think that maybe he's not?

That that voice is just inside his head

When he kneels next to the presidential bed

Does he ever smell his own bullshit

When the president talks to God?
I doubt it
I doubt it