{"id":293,"date":"2009-09-25T18:48:48","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T22:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=293"},"modified":"2009-09-26T02:08:50","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T06:08:50","slug":"a-learning-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=293","title":{"rendered":"A learning experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ken at Popehat points out<\/a> the eerie similarity between a song familiar to many from Sunday School and a song praising Barack Hussein Obama that was recently written, sung, recorded and distributed by a class of elementary school students.<\/p>\n

Here’s a lyric from the latter:<\/p>\n

He said red, yellow, black or white
\nAll are equal in his sight
\nMmm, mmm, mm!
\nBarack Hussein Obama<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here’s the refrain for the former:<\/p>\n

Jesus loves the little children,
\nAll the children of the world.
\nRed and yellow, black and white,
\nAll are precious in His sight,
\nJesus loves the little children of the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In a comment<\/a> to Ken’s post I recalled from my personal history another cheap ripoff of “Jesus Loves the Little Children.” As plebes at the U.S. Naval Academy back in the late ’80s we learned this marching cadence from an upperclassman, who I assumed learned it during his stint as an enlisted Marine prior to coming to USNA:<\/p>\n

Napalm sticks to little children,
\nAll the children of the world.
\nRed and yellow, black and white,
\nFlaming torches in the night,
\nNapalm sticks to little children of the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Later that year the same upperclassman stopped by my dorm room. He asked if I thought I could kill another man if it was either me or him in a one-on-one fight to the death. Assuming he was questioning my inner ferocity, I said of course I could and would kill another man in such a situation. To my utter surprise, the upperclassman said he thought he\u2019d rather just die. A couple months later, he had left the Naval Academy.<\/p>\n

A couple years later, I had left too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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