Country Joe McDonald Jumps on Clinton

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I’m with Wacka, who’s a bright young man (most of ‘em are young to me, lately) and a mail-server mate of mine. Truth be told, he’s no Country Joe McDonald, though. Doesn’t play guitar as well, either, I fear. Now, where’s Joan Baez?

Agh, NO, not another "folk boom." Earnest unwashed folksingers, NOT AGAIN THANK YOU. Even Dylan gave up on protest folk… and furthermore, since I am in the mood to say so, politics never solved a damn thing. Most politics is just monkeys throwing shit at each other. Every politician is as bad as every other. Bill Clinton really is a lying sack of shit who has betrayed lots of people, including his wife, and sold out long ago to rich corporate interests. The problem is that you can say the same damn thing about Newt Gingrich, Trent Lott, and the rest of the Republican krewe. I say "krewe" as in Mardi Gras Krewe, as in, it’s just a bunch of drunken clowns on parade who like people to look at them. The ultimate hypocrisy of it all is summed up in the marriage of James Carville and Mary Matalin. One’s a Democratic party mogul, the other one is a Republican party mogul. They come on TV at the same time and have the same damn comedy routine. You could even write a commercial for it and sell it as a sitcom. "Jim’s the wacky Democrat, a tree-hugging liberal with a gabby streak! And Mary’s the cynical Texas Republican who hates welfare cheats and hangs with Rush Limbaugh! Together, they make a wacky comedy team on the new episode of ‘Jim Loves Mary’ here on ABC tonight!" Politicians: Clowns and idiots, each and every one of them, and easily replaceable by a well trained orangutan. Who really runs this country? Multinational corporations run this country. They just like to let us think that we have some say in it, because if we learned otherwise, the shit might hit the fan… END OF RANT

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I though Eko guitars were made in Switzerland. Maybe that’s that other brand of crazy guitars. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – OB Guitar Reference: How about Eko guitars? The Italians sure gave the Japanese a run for their money producing really trashy looking guitars, didn’t they?

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I though Eko guitars were made in Switzerland. Maybe that’s that other brand of crazy guitars.

No – Italy.

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: I’m with Wacka, who’s a bright young man (most of ‘em are young to me, lately) : and a mail-server mate of mine. Truth be told, he’s no Country Joe McDonald, : though. Doesn’t play guitar as well, either, I fear. Now, where’s Joan Baez? Did/does Country Joe play guitar? I thought Barry Melton handled most of the axework for the Fish, whose "Feel Like I’m Fixin To Die Rag" at least had some humor to it, unlike a lot of protest tunes. Maybe Joe played/plays some riddim, I don remember…. Neil Young also has a tune ragging on Billy C….pretty easy target, really. Will

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I think if someone is committing genocide, it’s ok to bomb their asses when they wont stop. So do most of the republicans now, far as I can tell.

Only problem is it’s not working any better against Milowhatshishit, than it did against Saddam or Ho Chi Minh. The only way to do the job right, is to send in the PBI. But that might mean some brass-hat down at Disneyland east getting his pretty uniform mussed. And you wonn’t get it done with some half-assed job occupying Kosovo. If you do send troops in now, you’d better be prepared to over-run all of Yugoslavia, and build a democratic society from the ground up the same way we did in West Germany after WWII. If Bush had done that at Desert Storm, we probably wouldn’t be hassling with a two-bit pipsqueak over Kosovo today, and there might not even have been a war in Bosnia (or we’d have settled his hash then). But to do the job right, it’s going to take a couple hundred thousand troops (combined arms, combat support, combat service support and logistics trains). Figure it’s taken a month already to get 18 Apache’s ALMOST ready to enter the battle, and you can see we’re a little behind the power curve by now. If NATO couldn’t take any more time to negotiate, and had to start bombing when they did, the President should have gone ahead and called up the Guard and Reserves right then, just as soon as the first bomb dropped. If nothing else, it would have sent a more forceful message that we’re serious about getting the job done, whatever it takes. It might even have been a strong enough message that he would have backed down (although I doubt it). OB Guitar Reference: How about Eko guitars? The Italians sure gave the Japanese a run for their money producing really trashy looking guitars, didn’t they?

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Heh… Remembering the Nixon years well, and the Johnson years too, I’d ask where you are on the following statement: "If you need to get your rape of an old aquaintance out the news in a hurry, it’s okay to bomb some 2-bit tin pants hood’s ass until he commits genocide" ? I’m with Wacka, who’s a bright young man (most of ‘em are young to me, lately) and a mail-server mate of mine. Truth be told, he’s no Country Joe McDonald, though. Doesn’t play guitar as well, either, I fear. Now, where’s Joan Baez? FoF – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I knew mr. nixon, wacka, and bill clinton is no richard nixon. actually I didn’t but you get the idea. I like clinton better than reagan.. better than bush, better than carter, better than ford. I think if someone is committing genocide, it’s ok to bomb their asses when they wont stop. So do most of the republicans now, far as I can tell. but then, this is a guitar room so.. how do you like those foreign made gutiars? Twang! Heewack! Start writing those protest songs, folks! Country Joe McDonald is at it again, leading his generation, this time with Clinton playing the part of Nixon. Witness this news item: [from The Washington Times] That old gang from the ’60s is starting to gang up on President Clinton. Well, at least one, anyway. Country Joe McDonald and the Fish performed their anti-Vietnam War anthem at Woodstock in 1968, but nowadays Country Joe is aiming his barbs at Mr. Clinton. For those who have forgotten, Mr. McDonald’s "I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag" includes these famous lyrics: "One, two, three/ What are we fightin’ for?/Don’t ask me, I don’t give a damn/Next stop is Vietnam." Mr. McDonald, interviewed this week by New York Post columnist Gersh Kuntzman, demanded: "Stop the bombing immediately!" He added: "Bill Clinton is a traitor to his generation, a liar and a [expletive deleted]." Mr. Kuntzman, for his part, offered these updated lyrics for Mr. McDonald’s Vietnam-era tune: Come on all of you big strong men, Uncle Bill needs your help again, Started another imbroglio, In a little region called Kosovo. So sell your mutual fund and pick up a gun, You’re gonna have a whole lot of fun. (And it’s one, two, three), What are we fightin’ for? Don’t ask me I don’t really know, Next stop is Kosovo. (And it’s five, six, seven), Yeltsin may take the bait. It’s World War III up in the sky, Whoopie, we’re all gonna die. [end item] He’s no president of mine. You people who backed him up the last 6 years, this little sucker’s a-a-a-a-a-alllll yours. Wacka Jawaka

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I knew mr. nixon, wacka, and bill clinton is no richard nixon. actually I didn’t but you get the idea. I like clinton better than reagan.. better than bush, better than carter, better than ford. I think if someone is committing genocide, it’s ok to bomb their asses when they wont stop. So do most of the republicans now, far as I can tell. but then, this is a guitar room so.. how do you like those foreign made gutiars? Twang! – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Heewack! Start writing those protest songs, folks! Country Joe McDonald is at it again, leading his generation, this time with Clinton playing the part of Nixon. Witness this news item: [from The Washington Times] That old gang from the ’60s is starting to gang up on President Clinton. Well, at least one, anyway. Country Joe McDonald and the Fish performed their anti-Vietnam War anthem at Woodstock in 1968, but nowadays Country Joe is aiming his barbs at Mr. Clinton. For those who have forgotten, Mr. McDonald’s "I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag" includes these famous lyrics: "One, two, three/ What are we fightin’ for?/Don’t ask me, I don’t give a damn/Next stop is Vietnam." Mr. McDonald, interviewed this week by New York Post columnist Gersh Kuntzman, demanded: "Stop the bombing immediately!" He added: "Bill Clinton is a traitor to his generation, a liar and a [expletive deleted]." Mr. Kuntzman, for his part, offered these updated lyrics for Mr. McDonald’s Vietnam-era tune: Come on all of you big strong men, Uncle Bill needs your help again, Started another imbroglio, In a little region called Kosovo. So sell your mutual fund and pick up a gun, You’re gonna have a whole lot of fun. (And it’s one, two, three), What are we fightin’ for? Don’t ask me I don’t really know, Next stop is Kosovo. (And it’s five, six, seven), Yeltsin may take the bait. It’s World War III up in the sky, Whoopie, we’re all gonna die. [end item] He’s no president of mine. You people who backed him up the last 6 years, this little sucker’s a-a-a-a-a-alllll yours. Wacka Jawaka

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Heewack! Start writing those protest songs, folks! Country Joe McDonald is at it again, leading his generation, this time with Clinton playing the part of Nixon. Witness this news item: [from The Washington Times] That old gang from the ’60s is starting to gang up on President Clinton. Well, at least one, anyway. Country Joe McDonald and the Fish performed their anti-Vietnam War anthem at Woodstock in 1968, but nowadays Country Joe is aiming his barbs at Mr. Clinton. For those who have forgotten, Mr. McDonald’s "I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag" includes these famous lyrics: "One, two, three/ What are we fightin’ for?/Don’t ask me, I don’t give a damn/Next stop is Vietnam." Mr. McDonald, interviewed this week by New York Post columnist Gersh Kuntzman, demanded: "Stop the bombing immediately!" He added: "Bill Clinton is a traitor to his generation, a liar and a [expletive deleted]." Mr. Kuntzman, for his part, offered these updated lyrics for Mr. McDonald’s Vietnam-era tune: Come on all of you big strong men, Uncle Bill needs your help again, Started another imbroglio, In a little region called Kosovo. So sell your mutual fund and pick up a gun, You’re gonna have a whole lot of fun. (And it’s one, two, three), What are we fightin’ for? Don’t ask me I don’t really know, Next stop is Kosovo. (And it’s five, six, seven), Yeltsin may take the bait. It’s World War III up in the sky, Whoopie, we’re all gonna die. [end item] He’s no president of mine. You people who backed him up the last 6 years, this little sucker’s a-a-a-a-a-alllll yours. Wacka Jawaka

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