Howard Dean Doesn't Know the Star-Spangled Banner!

To: pax_et_bonum

Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,

O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thru the night that our flag was still there.

Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?

Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out of of their foul footsteps' pollution.

No refuge could save the hireling and slave'
From the terror of flight and the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.

Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

21 posted on 01/20/2004 4:05:57 PM PST by demlosers

To: pax_et_bonum

I heard it too. I know the words-it stuck out like a sore thumb ! He will get grief over that ! Keep it up Howard !!

22 posted on 01/20/2004 4:06:05 PM PST by smokeyb

I'm not sure what to make of it, but it has a good beat and I can dance to it.

23 posted on 01/20/2004 4:06:08 PM PST by Xenalyte (who wants to see the girlie dance?)

To: pax_et_bonum

It's bad enough that they use the Constitution as toilet paper under the guise of 'progressiveness'. The fact that they butcher the Star Spangled Banner under the guise of 'patriotism' makes me retch.

24 posted on 01/20/2004 4:06:15 PM PST by Viking2002

To: bootyist-monk

25 posted on 01/20/2004 4:06:44 PM PST by Lazamataz (New York City has always been, and always will be, America's switchblade.)

What led you to conclude I was bragging?

26 posted on 01/20/2004 4:07:35 PM PST by antaresequity

No flame,just an opinion-he appeared almost as much of a loon as he did last night.He's toast.

27 posted on 01/20/2004 4:07:42 PM PST by John W

To: Lazamataz; bootyist-monk

Now, now.

You both did just fine.

28 posted on 01/20/2004 4:08:11 PM PST by pax_et_bonum (Always finish what you st)

Im not sure which I like better: seeing him flip out or seeing him try NOT to flip out.

29 posted on 01/20/2004 4:08:24 PM PST by mikemc282002 (<---Go Pats - Championship #2 on it's way.......)

To: pax_et_bonum

Well, bootyist is a Bad American.

30 posted on 01/20/2004 4:08:47 PM PST by Lazamataz (New York City has always been, and always will be, America's switchblade.)

Re: He gets it confused with the Internationale.

I bet he knows every single word of the internationale.

31 posted on 01/20/2004 4:10:38 PM PST by ChadGore (George W. Bush has done more to earn my vote than any other American alive today.)

To: pax_et_bonum

32 posted on 01/20/2004 4:11:20 PM PST by Hillary's Lovely Legs (Howeird Dean is completely nuts. I like that in a Democrat Candidate.)

Geez...

I would never have thought that I could be embarrassed for him, but I can hardly stand it...

it looked SO ridiculous...

33 posted on 01/20/2004 4:12:08 PM PST by pax_et_bonum (Always finish what you st)

dang!

I'm just happy that I know the first stanza:)

34 posted on 01/20/2004 4:12:33 PM PST by not_apathetic_anymore

To: pax_et_bonum

Ah yes... and some people actually want him to be the president. Unbelievable.

35 posted on 01/20/2004 4:12:34 PM PST by 4mycountry ("No! Bad doggie! Don't eat dead people!")

Someone please tell me that a FReeper caught this in their computer and saved it.....

36 posted on 01/20/2004 4:13:17 PM PST by RandallFlagg ("There are worse things than crucifixion...There are teeth.")

To: pax_et_bonum

I think Dean is a coke fiend.

37 posted on 01/20/2004 4:14:03 PM PST by Impy (Are dogcatchers really elected?)

You're going to have to sit in the corner until you can behave.

38 posted on 01/20/2004 4:14:10 PM PST by pax_et_bonum (Always finish what you st)

Just think....Howie the weanie could be providing medical care (practicing medicine) on you......

39 posted on 01/20/2004 4:15:07 PM PST by pointsal

40 posted on 01/20/2004 4:15:10 PM PST by Hillary's Lovely Legs (Howeird Dean is completely nuts. I like that in a Democrat Candidate.)

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