Many's the time we've been mistaken, and many times confused.
Yes, and we've often felt forsaken, and certainly misused.
Obama says it’s all right, it’s all right, but I’m weary to my bones.
On this Independence Day, on this 4th of July 2009,
America’s so far away from home,
So far away from home.

Our government tortured people to death, our government spies on us, our government hands trillions of tax dollars to Wall Street criminals. As a professor, Barack Obama taught Constitutional law. As President, he betrays the Constitution and calls it looking forward. He consults with RePug lunatics and calls it bipartisanship. He takes one step towards change, two steps back, and calls it progress.

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Cross posted at Blazing Indiscretions and The Peace Tree.

As Americans pursue Happiness today - on this most sacred of holidays - reveling in American exceptionalism, eating hot dogs, potato salad and ice cream, they also rage war to foster "democracy" in an occupied Iraq and Afghanistan:

When will they ever learn?

I first heard Where have all the flowers gone? in 1964 (remember Vietnam?) in my high school German class. Yeah, PP&M, Baez, Kingston Trio, they've all sung it, but Dietrich's extraordinary rendition is the best IMNSHO! Ausgezeignet! Pete Seeger preferred the German version rather than his English version; especially the lyrics. Seeger said often that the German version sings better.

Wann wird man je verstehn?

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