Barack Obama vs Mitt Romney/Rap Meanings

Mitt Romney
I'm not gonna let this battle be dictated by facts!

(Romney often relied on incomplete data and political sleight-of-hand, as opposed to hard figures, to debate Obama)

'''I'm rich! I've got fat stacks and super PACs!'''

(He spent liberally, employing both his own funds and those of giant lobby groups (a.k.a. political action committees))

We all know what went down in that 2008 election:

(Romney has a theory as to why Obama won in '08: And he knows Obama won the election because he is up to date)

You're a decent politician with a winning complexion!

(He's BLACK!! BFD!!)

You're all Barack and no bite; 

(Play on a phrase meaning that someone who talks big hasn't the means to back up his words. Obama is a powerful orator but as yet has not delivered on his promises, says Romney.)

Been no change and we're all still hopin'

(Obama ran in '08 on "Hope" for "Change" from the policies of Bush (43), which put the US in crisis.)

That you'll shut your mouth,

(Romney wants Obama's lips zipped.)

But like Guantanamo Bay, they're both open!

(Obama's first executive orders in 2009 were aimed at closing the detention facility on Guantanamo Bay, Cuba within the year. It isn't closed yet, nor is Obama's big mouth.)

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You're from the Windy City,

(Obama hails from a suburb outside of Chicago, nicknamed the Windy City for its unpredictable weather patterns.)

Where you're looking pretty with your blowhards

(He looks great while campaign-stumping...)

But come January, you'll be left evicted and with no job!

(Had Romney won, Obama would have been cast out of the White House on the morning of 20 January, 2013.)

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Raw rhymes stronger than my jawline when I spit a phrase

(Romney has a strong jawline, an indicator of manliness.  His rapping skills, he says, are stronger since they are 'raw'--unfiltered.)

knocking you harder than front doors in my old mission days!

(Even stronger than in his time as a Mormon missionary.  Mormons and others often go door-to-door as they preach.  But will his rapping knock Obama out?)

'''You see this silver spoon? This dug Mass. out of debt!'''

(Romney claims to have balanced the budget in Massachusetts while he was its governor (2000's).  He may have been lucky to do so, as to be "born with a silver spoon in one's mouth" implies that one has exceptionally good fortune.  Money helps.)

Took you four years to drop unemployment down below 8%!

(During Obama's first term, the unemployment rate hovered above 8%, peaking just over 9% briefly.  The ERB team, according to their ERB2 vlog, had different lyrics, but changed them as the reports were released before production--the September number clocked in at 7.9%.) 

'''You feel that, Barry? You're old news! Everyone's having doubts!'''

(The American people were frustrated at Obama's inaction on a number of matters.  Romney implies that they were ready to elect a new leader, that people might be better off under him.)

And your rhymes are as weak as this economy that you've done nothing about!

(Obama's rap skills must therefore be feeble, just as the economy was.)

Call me a vicious businessman, 'cause Romney's stealing this race!

(Romney claims he can steal the race by any means he chooses, being a corporate businessman.)

I'll go Bain Capital on your donkey-ass, restructure your face!

(The Democratic Party's mascot is an ass.  The animal.  Bain Capital was a private firm Romney restructured during his time there.  But to go ___________ on somebody's ass says that you want to mess them up badly.)

Barack Obama
They say your father was a great man; you must be what's left.

(Romney's father, George W. Romney, was an accomplished automotive executive who tried his hand at politics and succeeded on many levels including the governorship of Michigan and as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.  Obama says Romney himself is but a shadow of what his father was.)

Need to stop hatin' on gays, let 'em teach you how to dress.

(Romney wasn't particularly fond of homosexuals, and so Obama is telling him to stop with this needless homophobia. Also, homosexuals have a tendency to dress more sharply than straight men, a burn on Romney's drab 'fashion sense', so to speak.)

You got the momma jeans, and a Mr. Fantastic face,

(OK, so his jeans suck.  Romney is seen as rubber-faced, like The Fantastic Four's Reed "Mr. Fantastic" Richards, who was completely elastic.)

So rich and white, it's like I'm runnin' 'gainst a cheesecake!

(Romney is very rich and white, two distinguishable qualities of the popular dessert.)

Republicans need a puppet, and you fit

(The Republican Party is just using Romney.)

Got their hands so far up your rear, call you Mitt!

(When wearing a glove, puppet, or in Romney's case, making fun of his name, a mitt, one places their hand in what would appear to be its rear end.)

'''I'm the Head of State! You're like a head of cabbage'''

(Obama holds the Presidency for a reason: he claims intelligence greater than Romney's, comparing him to cabbage.)

'bout to get smacked by my stimulus package!

(Double entendre here: Obama passed a spending package to jolt the flagging economy in '09, and he wants Romney to "suck on deez"--his nuts, that is.)

You're a bad man with no chance, you can't even touch me!

(Romney's premise for running at all was perceived as hostile to the country.  This gave Obama a leg up i the polls early on.  So did a fractured Republican Party looking for a hero it never got.)

I got four more years (two terms!) in the White House, just trust me!

(Obama thinks, thus, that his re-election's a sure thing.)

I hope you saved your best rhynes for the second half,

(Daring Romney to stage a huge comeback in the final months of campaigning--and in this rap battle!)

'cause right now, I'm 47% through kicking your ass!

(In 2012, Romney was secretly filmed at a fundraiser in which he was overheard stating that 47% of the US voting public was requesting or receiving government aid.  Obama turns the comment to his favor; the voters are helping him beat down Romney.)

Mitt Romney
'''Whatever! That 40% thing got you real mad!'''

(Referring to Obama's last statement. In real life, Obama did not enjoy, in the slightest, Romney's stand point.)

What, did it remind you how many decent parents you had?!

(Realizing he's been burned for comments in the prior stanza, Romney jabs at Obama's parentage.  This was one of many "sideshows" in the 2012 campaign: was he an American or a foreign-born transplant? If the latter, he'd be disqualified from office.)

Barack Obama
'''Uhh, look.. I respect all religions, uhh... but it might get crazy'''

(Obama is extremely liberal, respecting all beliefs. He, however, does believe that Romney's crazy for...)

if the White House has a First, Second, AND a Third Lady!

(an obvious jab at Mormons, who could once take multiple wives.  Romney might follow that path, Obama says.)

Mitt Romney
'''Ha! Don't bring up wives, man! What are you doing?!'''

(Romney is telling Obama to back off, as he is already married to his highschool sweetheart.)

You got hitched to the female version of Patrick Ewing!

(At its core, a diss on Michelle Obama in retaliation for even mentioning polygamy.  She's tall, dark, and much too outspoken for a lady, says Romney. She reminds him of NBA legend Patrick Ewing.)

Barack Obama
'''Uhh... let me be clear; uhh... don't get it twisted!'''

(He is telling Romney not to be confused.)

We'll see how pretty your face is after my fist has kissed it!

(When addressing a point in his speeches, Obama often says "Let me be clear..."  Referring to Romney's opening shot, he'll do some face-restructuring of his own unto Romney)

Mitt Romney
'''Aaahhhuuuhhhaaaa... you're a stuttering Communist!'''

(Romney is poking fun of Obama's stutter. Many thick headed conservatives like to believe that Barack Obama is a Communist and shouldn't be President.)

Barack Obama
'''Oh yeah? Well you're stupid!'''

(Obama believes Romney is not intelligent.)

Mitt Romney
You're stupid!

(A quick rebuttal.)

Barack Obama
Nuh-uh!

(Obama denies he is stupid.)

Mitt Romney
AAUUUUGGGHHH!!!

(ROMNEY RAGE!)

Barack Obama
EEERRRGGGHHH!!!

(OBAMA ANGERED!)

Eagle
CAAAAAWWW!!!

(Abe Lincoln drops in to save all of America from this nightmare.)

Abe Lincoln
By the power invested in me by this giant bald bird,

(The bald eagle, an American icon, gave Lincoln authority to speak.)

the President shall not be the shiniest of two turds!

(We had two choices, and both sucked, each in his own way.  Lincoln wanted neither.  The Electoral College system in the US doesn't allow for that.  The electors just picked the one that sucked LESS ('shinier of two turds') in their collective minds.)

'''You! I wanna like you! Don't talk about change, just do it!'''

(Obama is charismatic, but if he can't do anything to back his words, he's just a windbag.)

I fought for what was on my brain until a bullet went through it!

(Lincoln playing up his history: crushing rebels, freeing slaves, and making great speeches, until his assassination by being shot in the head.)

'''And you! Moneybags, you're a pancake; you're flip-floppity!'''

(Romney backtracked from his own opinions on many issues to appease the "base" he ran with--and at times returned to those original opinions situationally.  When a politician does so, he "flip-flops" like a pancake.)

It's a country, not a company you can play like Monopoly!

(But you can't just throw money at America's issues and expect to fix them. Monopoly is a board game about economics.)

I'll properly reach across the aisle and bitch-smack you as equals!

(Double entendre: to "reach across the aisle" is to come to a compromise on a particular issue. Here, Lincoln wants to slap both candidates in the face.)

'''Of the people!  By the people!  For the people!'''

(While referencing the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln indeed bitch-smacks both fighters.)

'''Eagle! '''

(Lincoln calls for the eagle.)

Eagle
'''CAAAAAWWW!!! '''