This could be the last straw for the “Star Spangled Banner”. Over the years countless people have complained that our national anthem cannot be sung, and/or the words glorified war, or some such stuff. Now it has been exposed that our future first woman president cannot sing the anthem. Hillary’s valiant attempt at an Iowa rally was a bit embarrassing. Even the corrupt mainstream media allowed replays of this regrettable episode. Not to worry. There will be much apologizing done for the senator. There will be renewed calls for changing the anthem to “America the Beautiful”, “God Bless America”, or the latest patriotic rap song. Up until now, it was thought only men with average voices were victims of the anthem. Most of us thought a woman could sing it. Nevertheless, Hillary can still claim she is better at singing it than Pat Buchanan.

What Hillary needs to improve are her political tunes. The media may be replaying Hillary’s anthem debut to distract from other embarrassing things that came out of her mouth in Iowa. The bloggers are relentless, and Hillary’s claims about being betrayed by President Bush on the Iraq war do not stand the test of things on the record (with her voice attached) from 2002 and 2003. Hillary asks what in her background helps her in dealing with evil or bad men. This gets laughs from supporters. Later on she says it’s a joke. Later on she says it’s not a joke and that no one thought she was talking about Bill or George. She used Osama Bin Laden as an example of an evil man. This is the stuff of college kids. Note to Hillary – When it comes to evil men in 2009, Osama will be low on the priority list.  Are people really this simplistic? Yes, I suppose.

Still, this all wears thin. “Been there, done that” is not going to be a good theme for Hillary. The dodging and weaving, the parsing of words. Nobody does it better --- than Bill. Obama and Edwards could not have hoped for a better start.