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Politico Lead Story: 'Is It Time to Ditch the Star-Spangled Banner?'
NewsBusters.org ^ | September 13, 2014 | Tom Blumer

Posted on 09/14/2014 4:44:39 PM PDT by Kaslin

There is apparently no more important story or issue right now at the Politico than Ted Widmer's question about our national anthem: "Is It Time to Ditch the Star-Spangled Banner?" It is currently the lead item at the web site, complete with a huge picture of the American flag. The "beheading by ISIL of a British aid worker" and Wisconsin's court-granted ability to implement voter-ID in the fall elections are both apparently less important. - See more at: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2014/09/13/politico-lead-story-it-time-ditch-star-spangled-banner#sthash.B4XsZOqY.dpuf

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: lefties; nationalanthem; politico; starspangledbanner; tedwidmer
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To: Dr.Deth

"I'M TRYING TO LISTEN TO THE #$@#@$@ SONG!"

21 posted on 09/14/2014 5:01:03 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Dr.Deth

That’s a good one.


22 posted on 09/14/2014 5:01:14 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: COBOL2Java

And in case anyone has forgotten the egregious disrespect of her performance: http://www.johnspeedie.com/healy/redglare.wav


23 posted on 09/14/2014 5:01:19 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Kaslin

Nice to know that the haters are active.


24 posted on 09/14/2014 5:02:51 PM PDT by Busko (One thing is certain, nothing is certain.)
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To: Kaslin

More distraction! The White House needs to get attention off the BIG issues!

Don’t fall for it.


26 posted on 09/14/2014 5:04:15 PM PDT by OpusatFR (I did make that. No one else did the work.)
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To: Kaslin
The US is no longer the same country for which that flag was designed. The name should change also, for the same reason. I don't think the Founders would want to be associated with the illegitimate, anti-Constitutional government that now operates falsely and dishonestly as "The United States."
27 posted on 09/14/2014 5:06:22 PM PDT by sourcery (Valid rights must be perfectly reciprocal.)
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To: jazusamo

Wonderful goose bumps, but sadly confirms a devastating loss and waste of talent.


28 posted on 09/14/2014 5:07:13 PM PDT by Toespi
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To: Kaslin

Deutschland Uber Alles makes you want to get up, grab your gun and march to the frontier.

Rule Britannia swears that Britons never, never will be slaves (except as directed by Sharia Law)

If you like your national anthem, you can keep it.


29 posted on 09/14/2014 5:07:51 PM PDT by centurion316
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To: Kaslin

Seriously Politico?

Who takes that site seriously any more?


30 posted on 09/14/2014 5:08:14 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Kaslin

It is time to exile all liberals.


31 posted on 09/14/2014 5:08:24 PM PDT by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: Kaslin

“Politico Lead Story: ‘Is It Time to Ditch the Star-Spangled Banner?”

It’s time to sing it.


32 posted on 09/14/2014 5:09:00 PM PDT by rockinqsranch ((Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.))
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To: Kaslin

I’m surprised Obama hasn’t banned for being insensitive to Muslims.


33 posted on 09/14/2014 5:09:00 PM PDT by McGruff (I'm thinkin.)
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To: dfwgator

This land was your land
Now it is my land
I stole it from you
by executive order
This land was not made for you, just me


34 posted on 09/14/2014 5:11:00 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Toespi

Amen


35 posted on 09/14/2014 5:11:17 PM PDT by jazusamo (Sometimes I think that this is an era when sanity has become controversial: Thomas Sowell)
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To: dfwgator
star spangled banner funny photo: Star Spangled war stories 86fc ssws86fc.jpg
36 posted on 09/14/2014 5:15:14 PM PDT by tumblindice (Americ'?a's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Dr.Deth

I agree. I can’t stand to listen to most contemporary singers, ever since Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston & Co started all that superfluous scale-running and scooping in everything they sang. Now everyone does it, no one even knows how to just sing a song anymore, with style and ease.


37 posted on 09/14/2014 5:19:13 PM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: Kaslin; All
I did a search on Ted Widmer and got this Wikipedia article. He was a Clinton speech writer, so it might be the same guy.
38 posted on 09/14/2014 5:26:16 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: centurion316

The tune for “Deutschland uber Alles” was originally composed by Joseph Haydn. John Newton, the author of “Amazing Grace”, wrote another hymn, “Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken” & set it to Haydn’s melody.

Anyway, “The Star Spangled Banner” needs to be publically sung as it was originally written, not with all those extra notes which call attention to the showboat singing it, not to the nation.

I know, that’s racist.


39 posted on 09/14/2014 5:27:23 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: Kaslin

I could go along with ditching the first 3 stanzas and just going with the last:

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war’s desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav’n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our trust.”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!


40 posted on 09/14/2014 5:36:05 PM PDT by PAR35
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