{"id":108,"date":"2007-04-25T16:26:42","date_gmt":"2007-04-25T20:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2007\/04\/25\/serenade-for-the-first-sufferers-political-song-parody\/"},"modified":"2007-04-25T22:53:47","modified_gmt":"2007-04-26T02:53:47","slug":"serenade-for-the-first-sufferers-political-song-parody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2007\/04\/25\/serenade-for-the-first-sufferers-political-song-parody\/","title":{"rendered":"Serenade For The First Sufferers (Political Song Parody)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m betting that Laura Bush can finally say goodbye to her relatively high approval numbers.\u00a0 Why? Because on this morning’s Today Show, Laura said something\u00a0to Anne Curry that’s way beyond obnoxious<\/a>:<\/p>\n

NBC: Do you know the American people are suffering?<\/p>\n

Laura Bush: Oh, I know that very much. And believe me, no one suffers more than their president and I do when we watch this. And certainly the Commander in Chief, who has asked our military to go into harm\u2019s way.<\/p>\n

NBC: What do you think the American public needs to know about\u2026<\/p>\n

Laura Bush: Well, I hope they do know the burden of worry that\u2019s on his shoulders, every single day for our troops.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(You can see Laura Bush in action here.<\/a>)\u00a0<\/p>\n

This calls for a song parody, don’t you think?\u00a0 And so I bring you my Serenade for the First Sufferers, which you can sing to Carolina In The Morning,<\/a> by Gus Kahn & Walter Donaldson:<\/p>\n

Serenade for the First Sufferers (Song Parody — sing to Carolina In The Morning)
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

No one suffers more
\nThan George and Laura from the war.\u00a0
\nThey’re really mourning.<\/p>\n

Photos of the dead
\nOn cable news fill them with dread.
\nThey’re really mourning.<\/p>\n

They’d prefer ignoring
\nTales of death and gore.
\nWhere are the happy stories\u00a0
\nThey long to hear once more?<\/p>\n

Waking up so early
\nTo the news of hurly burly
\nIn the morning<\/p>\n

Makes the Bushes surly.
\nHow they hate to think so early
\nIn the morning!<\/p>\n

Pity George and Laura.
\nNo one knows all their pain.
\nDeath’s lousy,
\nBut it’s George under strain.<\/p>\n

No one suffers more
\nThan George and Laura from the war.\u00a0
\nThey’re really mourning! [tags]Laura Bush Humor, Laura Bush, NBC, Anne Curry,\u00a0Today Show,\u00a0Iraq War, War Satire, George Bush, Political Song Parody, Death Suffering, Troops, Military, Mourning, Commander In Chief, Pain[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m betting that Laura Bush can finally say goodbye to her relatively high approval numbers.\u00a0 Why? Because on this morning’s Today Show, Laura said something\u00a0to Anne Curry that’s way beyond obnoxious: NBC: Do you know the American people are suffering? Laura Bush: Oh, I know that very much. And believe me, no one suffers more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,20,19,78,3,9,4,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}