V4Vendetta
12-04-2007, 12:54 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/weeklystandard/20071204/cm_weeklystandard/singasongofronpaul
Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 013, Issue 13 - 12/10/2007 - "If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it," the French playwright Beaumarchais once noted. But his heedless naïveté can be forgiven. Beaumarchais expired in 1799, well before the advent of today's endless presidential campaigns. Here, if everything that was not worth saying were sung, the political arena would sound like the high school cafeteria in Fame--one couldn't get down a sporkful of chipped beef without a musical number breaking out.
Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 013, Issue 13 - 12/10/2007 - "If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it," the French playwright Beaumarchais once noted. But his heedless naïveté can be forgiven. Beaumarchais expired in 1799, well before the advent of today's endless presidential campaigns. Here, if everything that was not worth saying were sung, the political arena would sound like the high school cafeteria in Fame--one couldn't get down a sporkful of chipped beef without a musical number breaking out.