In the wake of the Benazir Bhutto assassination, consider this: I was puzzled in my car yesterday listening to the XM satellite music service, and its reggae channel "The Joint." Rapper/singer Wyclef Jean was doing a little promotional ditty for XM and singing he was running for president, with "Clef for President" going up against Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, and then noting he would be "elected on Friday, assassinated on Saturday, buried on Sunday, back to work on Monday."
This is apparently a shortened version of Wyclef's song "If I Were President" from the Dave Chappelle show on Comedy Central. The little song on XM also had some of these cockeyed liberal lyrics:
An old man told me
Instead of spending
Billions on the war
We can use some of that money
In the ghetto
I know some so poor
When it rains that’s when they shower
Screaming fight the power
That’s when the vulture devours
It was an unusually long promo before the listener gets back to Toots and the Maytals.
