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sniffa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-21-04 10:17 AM
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CONFESS!! do you not know the #1 worst song?
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freetobegay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-21-04 10:20 AM
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1. What was that one Ashcfroft was singing?
Thats my vote!
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-21-04 10:21 AM
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2. Here you go: Enjoy
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freetobegay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-21-04 10:26 AM
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3. It scares me to know that you had that link
so readily available.
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sniffa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-21-04 10:26 AM
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4. oh jesus
i've never watched this before... it's awesome.

this is the same song he makes his staff sing every morning before work.

Then there's the music (one of the few "fun" things allowed under Assembly precepts). While in Congress, Ashcroft took part in a barbershop quartet called "The Singing Senators," but his commitment to musical excellence didn't end there.

In the post-September 11 environment, Ashcroft decided to inspire his Justice Department employees by starting each day with song. But such godless standards as the "Star Spangled Banner" just wouldn't suffice. Ashcroft wrote his own song, "Let the Eagle Soar," and forced his hapless subordinates to join him in a daily caterwaul of defiance to such outmoded concepts as "separation of church and state":

"Let the eagle soar,
Like she's never soared before.
From rocky coast to golden shore,
Let the mighty eagle soar.
Soar with healing in her wings,
As the land beneath her sings:
'Only god, no other kings.'
This country's far too young to die.
We've still got a lot of climbing to do,
And we can make it if we try.
Built by toils and struggles
God has led us through."

When interviewed by a British paper, an anonymous Justice Department lawyer summed up her objections to this cruel and unsusual practice thusly: "Have you heard the song? It really sucks."

http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/usa/john-ashcroft/
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LDS Jock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-21-04 10:34 AM
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5. william hung of politics
"I've had no professional training"
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