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Requiem for the Republic
Fevered Brain ^ | January 11, 2008 | DG

Posted on 02/11/2008 4:52:54 AM PST by DoorGunner

Requiem for the Republic


[With apologies to Al Stewart]

http://www.alstewart.com/lyrics/yearofthecat.htm


On the morning after Super Tuesday,

in a party running out of time

We've been run over by the Straight Talk Express,

and it feels like a crime.

He came out of the sun, on a strafing run

(the maver-icky John McCain).

Don't bother asking for explanations

he'll just tell you that he came...


In the year of the Rat



He doesn't have to answer questions,

he only says “You didn't serve.”

The Straight Talk Express (no one seems to notice)

is beginning to swerve!

While the Ex-press stalls and The Market falls,

and the pundits are all in a stew,

We've got no hope cause we're in an op-

en sewer running through..


The year of the Rat.



Well he comes on all so charmy

so the Sheep think he's their Favorite Son.

But he's really just as smarmy

as a dead fish rotting in the sun.


In the year of the Rat.



When November comes (if he's still with us)

and the other choices are all gone,

Even though he's not our choice for the ticket,

we know what has to be done.

Cause if we try to “punish the Pubbies,”

the whole country feels the pain.

And after all, we love our nation...

more than we loathe McCain


Even though he's a Rat.


Happy TET!


TOPICS: Military/Veterans; Poetry; Politics
KEYWORDS: election; mccain
Who is Hobson, and what choice did he have?
1 posted on 02/11/2008 4:52:55 AM PST by DoorGunner
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To: DoorGunner
Amazing what you can find on-line.

http://www.follytowers.com/hobsons.html

2 posted on 02/11/2008 11:22:40 AM PST by Cheburashka (Liberalism: a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.)
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To: Cheburashka

Thanks for the info.

(Even though it was kind of a rhetorical question.)

Good find.

DG


3 posted on 02/11/2008 1:32:10 PM PST by DoorGunner ( ...and so, all Israel will be saved.)
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