The bald eagle, the national symbol of the United States, is seen carrying Lincoln in to join the battle. Also “by the power invested in me” is a typical introduction to a statement made from a position of authority, which Lincoln has as a legendary president.

In the behind the scenes for this ERB, Nice Peter states that any one can enter a rap battle at any time so long as it’s by flying creature. This seems to have been dropped in finale in season 2.

On May 17th 2012 Mitt Romney’s campaign held a $50k/plate fundraiser in Boca Roton, Florida; an anonymous person, probably wait staff, secretly videotaped part of the event. One donor asked Romney about his campaign strategy and he answered with the following:

There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That’s an entitlement. The government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what. And I mean the president starts off with 48, 49…he starts off with a huge number. These are people who pay no income tax. Forty-seven percent of Americans pay no income tax. So our message of low taxes doesn’t connect. So he’ll be out there talking about tax cuts for the rich. … My job is not to worry about those people. I’ll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives. What I have to do is convince the 5–10% in the center that are independents, that are thoughtful, that look at voting one way or the other depending upon in some cases emotion, whether they like the guy or not.

In September, a copy of the tape was given to the liberal website Mother Jones (run by Jimmy Carter’s grandson), who then released the tape to the general public. Much like John McCain’s “the fundamentals of our economy are sound” remark back in 2008, the firestorm of debate and criticism that followed this revelation did not help Romney’s poll numbers. He recovered somewhat after the first presidential debate, and the media perpetuated a horse-race scenario, but that, if anything else, was probably the final nail in Romney’s chances for the presidency.

In an ironic twist of fate, Mitt Romney’s final share of the popular vote in the election was…47%.

As a final note, each person in a Epic Rap Battles of History song usually gets two verses worth of speaking time each, so at this point, the pres is about halfway though his allotted time

Another irony is that, when you look at states that have the highest percentage of people who do not pay federal income tax, most went to Romney in the 2012 election (92 electoral votes). Most of the states with the smallest percentage of non-payers went to Obama (74 electoral votes).

http://www.politico.com/2012-election/map/#/President/2012/

Matt wonders what the point of having children even is, considering that they often grow up and do all the things they are told not to do in their childhood. Is there really any point in following this pretense of righteousness and decency if no one can ever live up to it?

Matt doesn’t like the idea of submitting to a divine being and/or its laws in order to reach the afterlife (if one exists) or to find true happiness