Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Where was McCain's anti-bigotry speech?

Ladies and gents, here's the fab choir that sang at the Values Voters Debate in Ohio last September for all the Republican candidates, including the now presidential nominee John McCain. Where's the outrage like that on TV this week against Democratic candidate Barack Obama's pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright?



Here's the hit hymn, to the tune of "God Bless America":

Why should God bless America?
She’s forgotten he exists
And has turned her back
On everything that made her what she is.

Why should God stand beside her
Through the night with the light from his hand?
God have mercy on America
Forgive her sin and heal our land

The courts ruled prayer out of our schools
In June of ‘62
Told the children “you are your own God now
So you can make the rules”
O say can you see what that choice
Has cost us to this day
America, one nation under God, has gone astray

Why should god bless America?
She’s forgotten he exists
And has turned her back on everything
That made her what she is

Why should God stand beside her
Through the night with the light from his hand?
God have mercy on America
Forgive her sins and heal our land

In ‘73 the Courts said we
Could take the unborn lives
The choice is yours don’t worry now
It’s not a wrong, it’s your right

But just because they made it law
Does not change God’s command
The most that we can hope for is
God’s mercy on our land

Why should God bless America?
She’s forgotten he exists
And has turned her back on everything
That made her what she is

Why should God stand beside her
Through the night with the light from his hand?
God have mercy on America
Forgive her sins and heal our land
Was the Rev. Fred Phelps and his God Hates Fags congregation in the audience? Not unlikely. The homophobic perennial Republican black candidate Alan Keyes (bigotry is a value, right?) and this choir got equally rave reviews from RenewAmerica:
The proceedings began with a church choir singing of one of our national songs, and included was the addition of a couple of lines of their own, with lyrics about a straying nation that needs to be brought back to God and healed. I was truly touched by the choir's presentation.
It's not obscure. A Google search of "Why Should God Bless America" comes up with 3,310 online posts about it.

How could all those 24-hour cable TV "news" networks have not expressed their best punditry outrage about that un-American prostitution of a national patriotic song?

We get Rupert Murdoch's Faux News by now, but CNN, c'mon!

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