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Illinois Democratic Rep Danny Davis ‘Sees Nothing Wrong’ With Changing The National Anthem
Daily Caller ^ | 9:22 11/09/2017 | Kerry Picket

Posted on 11/09/2017 2:32:03 PM PST by drewh

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To: drewh

A new national anthem? Okay, we’ll just update “Oh say can see” with “Whoomp! There it is.” Problem solved.


41 posted on 11/09/2017 3:09:55 PM PST by Dahoser (Separation of church and state? No, we need separation of media and state.)
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To: lgjhn23; Maudeen
Today’s shining example of the insanity brought on by liberalism. Needs to be locked up in an insane asylum....does NOT belong out in society.

You ain't lying!

42 posted on 11/09/2017 3:10:18 PM PST by TheConservativeTejano
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To: drewh

In ten years we will have a new National Anthem. This is how it starts, they never lose in the long run.


43 posted on 11/09/2017 3:10:30 PM PST by Husker24
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To: drewh

Well, if it is changed to “God Bless America” ...


44 posted on 11/09/2017 3:15:49 PM PST by odawg
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To: chajin

How about:
“I Am My Own Grampa”

It’a catchy tune.


45 posted on 11/09/2017 3:23:21 PM PST by buffaloguy (Bond arms Cowbot)
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To: Maudeen
I would be OK with changing the Anthem ... to the Battle Hymn of the Republic.

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me.
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on.

Let the aetheists and muslims choke on THOSE verses!
46 posted on 11/09/2017 3:39:38 PM PST by RainMan (rainman)
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To: drewh

For all the whackos who want to get rid of our National Anthem, including the NAACP, the ACLU, the CBC, the NFL Kneeling Nincompoops, the Demonic-rat party, Mitch McConnell and all his other braindead RINO's, ex-president stinking B-O, Jerkoff Jesse Jackson, and Rep. Danny Davis, the best solution is for the rest of us to keep "The Star-Spangled Banner", and let all those nut-bags have their own National Anthem.   They can use this song (below), and they can stand, kneel, sit, raise their fists, exercise, or anything they want during the playing of their National Anthem, and they should leave the rest of us and our National Anthem the hell alone during the playing or singing of it.

Here's the New National Anthem of all the nut-bags from Congress (including Danny D. and the CBC), all other members of the Demonic-rat party, all RINOS (including Mitch the Turtle-Twitch McConnell), the kneeling nincompoops from the NFL, the Know-Nothings from the NAACP, ACLU, and Planned Parenthood, ex-president B-O, Jerkoff Jesse Jackson, the numbskulls from the mainstream media and the entertainment world, and all the Nasty Women from NOW:

      "I'm A Nut"   (Lunatics New National Anthem)

47 posted on 11/09/2017 4:16:01 PM PST by Songcraft
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To: chajin

How about Barack Obama...mmm mmm


48 posted on 11/09/2017 4:59:15 PM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: drewh

A black women, huge Hillary supporter, brought this up Today at work questioning: “Have these people lost their minds?”

=> the longer the leftardia pendulum swings to the left, the better the the mid terms look!

Stay out of the way!


49 posted on 11/09/2017 5:08:44 PM PST by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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To: drewh

Where do these people keep coming from?


50 posted on 11/09/2017 5:20:01 PM PST by main st.
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To: drewh

God Bless America would make a great national anthem. I’m sure everyone will agree.


51 posted on 11/09/2017 5:21:00 PM PST by spintreebob
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To: drewh

For reference and discussion purposes, here is the entire third stanza:

“And where is that band who so vauntingly swore,
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion
A home and a Country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash’d out their foul footstep’s pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave, And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.”

Contextually, the stanza is a continuation of the narrative of the preceding two stanzas and the band being referenced is the British naval and ground forces come to bombard and seize Fort McHenry. The reference to slaves is being interpreted by these offended geniuses of the Left as a reference to black slaves. But the terms “hireling and slave” were frequently applied during this period to foreign mercenaries and persons impressed into British military service. You may recall that impressment of US sailors on the high seas by British warships was one of the primary reasons for the War of 1812 to begin with. Not every reference to “slave” refers to blacks in bondage.

If the Democrats think they are disliked now, just see what happens if they take up this imbecilic line of “reasoning.”


52 posted on 11/09/2017 5:40:54 PM PST by Captain Rhino (Determined effort today forges tomorrow.)
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To: Bookshelf

“Perhaps Illinois Democratic Rep. Danny Davis would prefer “Blueberry Hill.””

A, He’s a schwarze communist from shitcago.
B. What else do you need to know?


53 posted on 11/09/2017 6:17:01 PM PST by Bonemaker
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To: drewh

Democrats - The anti-America party.


54 posted on 11/09/2017 6:27:33 PM PST by cp124 (Elections are for the serfs to think their opinion matters. It doesn't.)
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To: Lawgvr1955

“Whites” are colored also.

No person is the color white or black. Zero.


55 posted on 11/09/2017 6:56:47 PM PST by TheNext (FBI FAKE STORY: Lone Shooter, But Died)
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To: drewh; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj; GOPsterinMA; NFHale; stephenjohnbanker; big'ol_freeper
California’s NAACP is pushing for state lawmakers to support a campaign to remove “The Star Spangled Banner” as the country’s national anthem. The group says the song, which has been a point of controversy in the NFL, is “one of the most racist, pro-slavery, anti-black songs in the American lexicon,”

Dafuq? It has *ick-all to do with Blacks or slavery, it's about a battle during the War of 1812. This is as randomly ridiculous as saying the Smurfs Theme Song is racist against Koreans.

56 posted on 11/09/2017 7:14:29 PM PST by Impy (The democrat party is the enemy of your family and civilization itself, forget that at your peril.)
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To: MarMema

“Can’t we please just split the country and let them have their own place to make whatever works for them?”

You mean like splitting The Union so the Confederates could have their own place to make what works for them?

You mean like splitting the American West with various reservations so that Native Americans could have their own place to make whatever works for them?

You mean like splitting Berlin so the East Germans could have their own place to make whatever works for them?

You mean like splitting Korea so the Norks could have their own place to make what works for them?

You mean like splitting Israel so the Palestinians can have their own place to make whatever works for them?

Because all of THOSE ideas just worked SO WELL, didn’t they.


57 posted on 11/09/2017 11:08:08 PM PST by HKMk23 (You ask how to fight an idea? Well, I'll tell you how: with another idea!)
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>> the California ACLU’s effort to ban the Star Spangled Banner

Obsolete revolutionaries hitching a ride into a brick wall.


58 posted on 11/09/2017 11:18:45 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi
The NAACP referenced the anthem’s third verse,
Third verse? You kidding?

It says the word SLAVE in it!!! It must be bad! No matter the context!!!!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country, should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave,
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Of course, a little reading comprehension might dissuade one from using the Race Card here... but apparently that is too much to ask of a Dem.

(According to British historian Robin Blackburn (writing in 1988), the words "the hireling and slave" allude to the thousands of ex-slaves in the British ranks organised as the Corps of Colonial Marines (in the War of 1812), who had been liberated by the British and demanded to be placed in the battle line "where they might expect to meet their former masters." (when only 4% of Americans owned slaves)

59 posted on 11/09/2017 11:36:54 PM PST by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: Impy; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj; NFHale; stephenjohnbanker

I’ve always liked “Stars & Stripes Forever” better.

OTOH, I’d change it to something by Wagner...


60 posted on 11/10/2017 8:00:34 PM PST by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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