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Mon Apr-24-06 09:38 AM
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John Brown (TomDispatch): On Waking Up Sleepless |
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Edited on Mon Apr-24-06 09:39 AM by Jack Rabbit
From TomDispatch .com Dated Sunday April 23On Waking Up Sleepless in the Middle of the Night By John Brown TO: The President FROM: A former American diplomat SUBJECT: Waking up in the middle of the night Mr. President: Do you ever wake up in the middle of the night? Do you? Do you ever wake up sleepless in the middle of the night? What have you done in Iraq? Do you ever realize, in the middle of the night, what you've done? Do you? Read more.
John Brown is a former diplomat who resigned from the State Department over the planned war in Iraq.
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Mon Apr-24-06 09:52 AM
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watch Pink - Dear Mr President.
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Mon Apr-24-06 10:13 AM
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2. This reminded of Pink's song |
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Edited on Mon Apr-24-06 10:21 AM by Jack Rabbit
They'll be singing that years from now as a historical/cultural icon of these dark days. Pink has given us the Waist Deep in Big Muddy of the Bush regime era.
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Mon Apr-24-06 10:29 AM
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3. Pink song has a deeper depth |
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It is about Bad Leader and the suffering citizen That song is not going to be allow in lots of countries
There are goverment and there are people We chose leader to govern us But they govern us to make money Finding a good leader is like trying to find a needle in a haystack nowadays.
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Mon Apr-24-06 10:56 AM
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Pete Seeger wrote Waist Deep in Big Muddy when Lyndon Johnson was President. The song was a broadside at LBJ's stubborn and foolish policies in Vietnam:
Well, I'm not going to point any moral; I'll leave that for yourself Maybe you're still walking, you're still talking You'd like to keep your health. But every time I read the papers That old feeling comes on; We're -- waist deep in the Big Muddy And the big fool says to push on.
Parallels are drawn in this respect to Bush's stubborn and foolish policies in Iraq.
However, Pink's Dear Mr. President is about a man over his head as a leader. G. W. Bush is fundamentally a hapless spoiled brat who grew up in wealth and privilege. He thinks that the wealthy are superior to others; this includes him, even though he did nothing to earn his wealth like American industrial luminaries of the past like Henry Ford and Thomas Edison or of the presnet like Ross Perot. Pink takes a broadside at Bush's undemocratic world view right at the start:
Let's pretend we're just two people and You're not better than me
In Pink's world view, it is Bush's wealth and privilege and his failure to comtemplate what life is for those not among the "haves and have-mores" that make him fundamentally unfit to be a leader of a democratic state:
Let me tell you bout hard work Minimum wage with a baby on the way Let me tell you bout hard work Rebuilding your house after the bombs took them away Let me tell you bout hard work Building a bed out of a cardboard box Let me tell you bout hard work, hard work, hard work You don't know nothing bout hard work, hard work, hard work, O!
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Mon Apr-24-06 11:13 AM
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5. The you no better than me is very strong |
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It let people to feel that the singer is them
The daughter and the father and daughters right .... this song wont get a chance to be play in Saudi If you stop listening to the song as an Americans You see that it is universal in so many way Those words has so many meaning depending on the listener.
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