Buzz Ballad: The Ballad of Joe Soptic

The laid-off Joe Soptic says Romney’s to thank
For his wife’s cancer death and his debts at the bank
But the skeptics sensed Soptic’s sob story was rank
And threw Soptic’s sob story into the septic tank

Joe was a steel man with a job at the mill
And made for himself a good living
But when hard times came the steel jobs were killed
And Joe Soptic’s most unforgiving

The mill where Soptic worked went right down the drain
And though Bain tried to turn it around
You can’t run a business with more loss than gain
So unemployed Joe himself found

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Five years later, sadly, doctors found Joe’s wife
Was suffering from cancer’s late stages
Right after diagnosis, she lost her life
And Joe felt that this was outrageous

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Joe set about looking for someone to blame
For the fact that his wife had to go
And decided it had all been the fault of Bain
And Mitt Romney, once Bain’s CEO

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Yes, Soptic blamed Romney, though Romney had left
Bain long before Joe’s plant was shuttered
A brief look shows that Joe’s story is quite bereft
Of any truth in what he uttered

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Joe Soptic says his wife was uninsured
And that’s what left her in a pickle
He could have put her on his plan, but demurred
In order to save a few nickels

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But Obama’s campaign, with a record of fail
Decided to smear their opponent
And used Soptic’s fabricated fairy tale
In hope that they could seize the moment

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Yes, Obama’s campaign has worked hard to retail
A story which they knew was truthless
But, when you must run on a record of fail
You see no downside to being ruthless

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One can—perhaps—pity Soptic for his lies
When he said Romney was to blame
But honest Americans all should despise
How Obama attacked Romney’s name