Song: Dear Mr. President
Artist: P!nk
Album: I'm Not Dead (2006)
It's no secret that I love P!nk. Love her. Insanely. She's forever awesome in my eyes.
Songs like this are a big reason why.
While mainstream radio blares catchy, funny tracks like "Stupid Girls" and "So What?" - both songs I find entertaining but tire of fairly quickly - not many people seem to realize that the spunky girl with the sometimes pink hair has some very important things to say in her songs from time to time.
While this track is pointed straight for George W. Bush, there are aspects of it that can use questions that should resonate with all of us. Though most of us haven't "come a long way from whiskey and cocaine," there are loads of issues brought up in this song that each and every one of us can spend a little time thinking about.
War, homosexuality, abortion / reproductive rights and homelessness all come up in the song, all with thought-provoking questions attached to them.
Part of why I chose this song today stems from a link my man Deuce sent me yesterday. It was of Jon Stewart interviewing former Arkansas Governor and presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee and discussing same sex marriages.
My feelings on this issue have been stated a couple times in the past here at iBlog, so without getting to far into it, it just baffles me that there are still people who have these cast-iron beliefs and views about poignant issues like this and the ones P!nk addresses in this song.
I'm not saying we all have to have the same views and they have to be the ones that I believe, but I think we're at a stage in our existence as a people that being close-minded and so stringently opposed to issues like these is ridiculous.
Now that I'm off my soapbox, click the link, listen to the song and enjoy.
I promise, next week will be some harmlessly fun Hip Hop track with very little soapbox preaching from me...
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Five Years Later
Did you know that Thursday marks the Five Year Anniversary of the United States' entry into Iraq?
Five years!
What has changed in that time?
Yes, Saddam Hussien was found, tried and executed. But here is the thing to me:
Nothing has changed since his death. If anything, he has become a martyr and the push against the US occupation of Iraq is even greater.
It scares the hell out of me to have heard John McCain make his "100 years" speech a month or so back. If he makes it to the White House, I can assure you there'll be at least another four years, that's for damn sure.
Two questions that have always been prominent in my head since the outset of the Iraq War. As we approach the five year mark, they still remain:
1. Why are they there in the first place?
2. When is enough enough?
How many lives must be lost, on both sides of the battle, for this to end?
Sadly, I don't think anyone knows an answer to this.
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