Strangest Diplomatic Initiative Ever: You’ve Got a Friend!
17th January 2015
The administration has acknowledged that it erred by not participating in a meaningful way in the giant pro-free speech demonstration in Paris, so it has tried to make amends by sending John Kerry to France. Apparently thinking that he needed reinforcements to convey a full sense of the administration’s symbolic support, Kerry brought along…James Taylor.
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God only knows what the French made of this. Maybe James Taylor is still popular there, like Jerry Lewis.
As Tom Lehrer said when describing the ‘Folksong Army’: ‘They may have won all the battles — but we had all the good songs!’
(Now just think about what kind of President Kerry would have been…. America really dodged a bullet there.)