Third verse? You kidding?
It says the word SLAVE in it!!! It must be bad! No matter the context!!!!
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 their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or 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.
Of course, a little reading comprehension might dissuade one from using the Race Card here... but apparently that is too much to ask of a Dem.
(According to British historian Robin Blackburn (writing in 1988), the words "the hireling and slave" allude to the thousands of ex-slaves in the British ranks organised as the Corps of Colonial Marines (in the War of 1812), who had been liberated by the British and demanded to be placed in the battle line "where they might expect to meet their former masters." (when only 4% of Americans owned slaves)