01 Nov, 2026

Video: Bush Raps Lennon’s ‘Imagine’

April 14, 2006April 14, 2006 Buck Banks

Smart bomb: John Callahan is a guy with no small amount of video editing talent and a lot on his mind. He has put together a remix of John Lennon’s classic peace anthem, “Imagine,” pieced together from 40 video clips of George Bush’s speeches and public utterances, interspersed with disturbing images of war and destruction from Iraq.

This is not your cutesie animation of George and Dick singing and dancing to illustrate a petty political point — it’s juiced-up anti-war rhetoric with a punch.

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Video: Bush Raps Lennon’s ‘Imagine’

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Verbatim

“One woman at a rally in New Jersey told me last week that she was ‘nauseously optimistic.’ That may capture a lot of people’s last-minute jitters.”

— Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), quoted by Axios, on what Democrats feel ahead of the midterm elections.

“I think Congress made a mistake not protesting turning the Rose Garden into what looks like the entrance to Liberace’s bathroom.”

— Former President Bill Clinton, quoted by The Wrap.

“Boy, they are scraping the bottom of the barrel. It feels like a real desperation play to me, because it has got zero basis in the law.”

— Republican election law expert Ben Ginsberg, quoted by Politico, on the Trump administration’s effort to invalidate Alaska’s election results.

Numerati

3,824

$1.4 billion

-35 points

31%

63% to 38%

KFF Poll: “With the 2026 midterm campaigns in full swing and early voting about to begin, there is a wide enthusiasm gap between partisan voters, with Democratic voters 25 percentage points more likely than Republican voters to say they are ‘more motivated’ than usual to vote (63% vs. 38%).”