And the Big Fool Says to Push On.

Recently, while listening to a (formerly) “antiwar” friend of mine touting Barack Obama’s plan to escalate war in Afghanistan, I was reminded of a great song that Pete Seeger performed over 30 years ago – Waist Deep in the Big Muddy.

Here’s the line that sticks out in my mind:

We were lucky to escape from the Big Muddy
When the big fool said to push on.

It seems to me that the big fool is the president, and it doesn’t really matter who that person might be.  If we’re lucky, we’ll escape from our new “big muddy” in Iraq – but yet, that big fool is telling us to push on to the next one.

What a great song – and to think – it aired on CBS…yes, CBS…at the height of the Vietnam war.  Think any Government/FCC-partnered network would doing something similar these days?

Watch it: