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...guess that few families gather round the piano to sing of the invasions of Grenada and Panama. Vietnam is pretty much an angry face-off between Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler (The Ballad of the Green Berets) and Country Joe & the Fish (I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag). The Korean War has a memorial now, but still no memorable songs. It's as if, after World War II, Americans decided that internationally sanctioned slaughter was no longer something to sing about...
...Michael Landon used to say on "Little House on the Prairie," sometimes it takes a hard lesson "to get you fixin' to do the right thing...
...Doesn't say, "I support a woman's right to choose." .Bush's taking credit for the Berlin Wall is like a "rooster taking credit for the sun rise" (his standard line). .Repeat after me, "I support the right for a woman to choose." .Limit congressional terms? "We're fixin' to limit one" right...
...blame for the economy, stress Bush's longtime ties to the state and, except for some well-placed reminders about the Desert Storm triumph, avoid foreign policy. Masking his patrician demeanor beneath a folksy veneer, Bush began dropping his final g's and r's with a vengeance, substituting "fixin' ta" for "going to" and quoting the lyrics of country- music songs...
Washington political satirists, the Capitol Steps, will be on tap: "Hark, when Gerald Ford was king,/ We were bored with everything./ Unemployment 6%./ What a boring President./ Nothing major needed fixin'/ So he pardoned Richard Nixon." House Speaker Tip O'Neill is coming from the capital. Mercifully, he promises not to sing. Ford will wander in with his old football helmet under his arm, the one Lyndon Johnson claimed Ford never wore...