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It wasn't an American Idol tryout or a performance at La Scala. The man has a decent, albeit an aging and untrained tenor voice and sang from his heart at a Tea Party rally. I thought it pretty impressive he could even hit the high notes since most people do not have the vocal range to sing the National Anthem and still sound half way good. It's just a damn shame that people on this forum cannot appreciate the love of country this man was expressing. It speaks poorly of you.
Isn't it disrespectful to change the words to our national anthem?
Godamighty Ozzie the fact that you don't know that we don't use that second verse doesn't make it disrespectful to sing it. I know it is hard for a number of you to understand that Francis Scott Key really did write the song a bit longer than we use but probably him knowing about God is what bothers you people most.
I think you may be able to find the whole song sometime on some search engine. The first time I knew about that verse somebody googled it. Try it, you may learn something that atheists don't really want to see.
Isn't it disrespectful to change the words to our national anthem?
Ozzie, here is a chance to look at all the words of the Star Spangled Banner as Key wrote it. Look it over and see which parts you just can't stand so you can pick out the parts you can accept.
You can thank Woodrow Wilson for removing the additional verses.
Surely the man who Beck keeps calling a progressive wouldn't be the one who removed the words that progs can't accept. Of course, he was involved and for obvious reasons.
our anthem is beautiful and stirring however I found this man's reasons to be more about showing off his voice than his point of god in the lyrics. it just seemed disingenuous and more about opportunity to sing than content. for me I would have been more moved had he spoken the words.
If that guy wants to sing about God why doesn't he do it in a church?
Another atheist prog is heard from. You poor man you can't change the subject into something you like but keep trying so we can see who you are.
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