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....laugh about it, shout about it, when you go to choose....everyway you look at it you lose...”

Ain’t that the truth for this election cycle!

I was going to reference Crosby, Stills & Nash's “Chicago”...mostly because I thought it was so awesome that during the live performance on “4 Way Street” the band opened it by saying “This one's for you, Mayor Daley!” Even as kids, we hated the Daley machine., and because I thought it (the song) was about the riots. But, it wasn't. It was about the Chicago Seven trial (the refrain- “won't you please come to Chicago just to sing” was actually one band mate (Nash?)asking the others to come and help support Bobby Seale.)

For the “youngers” in the audience, The Chicago Seven were the people who were prosecuted as the ringleaders of the riots.

I remember watching the riots on TV and thinking, huh, more riots. Why don't the pigs just leave em alone? I was 11 at the time, and the previous summer, both my town and Detroit had gone thru horrid rioting. I guess I was just glad I didn't live in Chicago.

Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio, our nation turns its lonely eyes to you...

By early May and June of 1968, the nation's eyes were turned to pitcher Don Drysdale of the Los Angeles Dodgers, who was shutting out opposing teams, one after another.

Here's the best analysis of this song I could find. Spot on. You might not like it, but this is what it was about, as was the movie.

This song is about the state of the nation in the late 60's. Ms. Robinson is an archetype of the generation that could no longer uphold the "perfectness" of the '50s no matter how good their intentions. (hence why Jesus loves you, there were lots of wrongs committed with the best of intentions) The entire older generation of the 60's was in a sort of institution, desperately trying to maintain an unmaintainable false image. Hide it from the kids, they'll rip off the covers and expose everything. Government is not helping, anyway you lose. Also, an excellent note from the movie: Notice how after they "succeeded" in toppling the establishment's expectations they sat in the back of the bus looking like they had no clue about what to do next? That was 60's youth, and that conflict with one side wrong and the other side confused and directionless is what this song is about.

We can but hope that Denver will be a disharmonic convergence, in which every kook, every foul Moonbat, and every troubled radical ever encouraged by that party will come out of their dark and dank holes to go to that Mecca of Mayhem, as the bitter fruits of that twisted tree.

And then Hillary steals the convention.

At which point, the mixed metaphors reach critical mass.

I can remember when they celebrated the 20th anniversary of Mrs. Robinson being at the top of the charts on WCBS. I was driving to visit my granmother’s grave (she having died a month earlier).

Turing 7 yo in 1968 didn't stop me from hearing "Mrs. Robinson" on the radio that year BION. Or "Love is Blue". Or "This Guy's in Love with You". Or "Little Green Apples". Or "Abraham, Martin and John". Or "I'm a Girl Watcher". Or maybe even "Born to be Wild", though that might be a stretch. OTOH I don't remember Status Quo's "Pictures of Matchstick Men" or the Beatles' "White Album".