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I love that dinky little song -- best thing Page has done since Zep broke up.  

- Lymon1

June 19, 2008 at 10:17am

Perhaps this brought back old memories for McCain. He might have flashed back to childhood, President Coolidge and the flood of '27.  <http://tinyurl.com/6ykres>

No, not good to be too close to the guy in charge.

"President Coolidge came down in a railroad train

With a little fat man with a note-pad in his hand

The President say, "Little fat man isn't it a shame what the river has

done

To this poor crackers land." [1]

[1] 'Louisiana 1927' R. Newman

- michael

June 19, 2008 at 10:25am

This post would have been significantly higher-quality if you had used this clip instead:

www.youtube.com/watch

- johnalthousecohen

June 19, 2008 at 10:46am

Poor Iowa. Today will be like a plague of elephant-sized locusts in flood-ravaged Eastern Iowa.

The best thing either Bush or McCain could do for the GOP and/or the McCain campaign would be to stay the heck away from Iowa right now. Let the federal disaster response do the talking for them; the last thing a quarter of a million people with flooded homes who are pissed off about delays in letting them return and start cleaning up need is to have a traveling photo-op circus come to town and suck scarce public resources away from cleanup and public safety for a day. Well, actually, that's the second-to-last thing they need; the last thing they need is to have _two_ big security circuses come to the region on the same day.

- rhubarbs

June 19, 2008 at 10:58am

Actually the third-last; the last thing they need is more rain.

- cspencef

June 19, 2008 at 1:44pm