Date: 2009-08-20 02:14 pm (UTC)
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The Toby, by the way, has very strange lyrics, very lunkheaded in his depiction of what happens here but the message seems not only to be "My country right or wrong, even when it's predominantly going wrong" but "there's something about my country's combination of right and wrong that is especially compelling, makes for quite a ride." This latter makes the message different from Stephen Decatur's famous "My country write or wrong" quotable, which I'd originally seen as, "My country, may she ever be right, but my country right or wrong," though the Wiki entry on the subject gives the toast as "Our Country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but right or wrong, our country!" The Keith maybe implies that if you get rid of the wrong you risk eliminating something crucial, though presumably he'd be in favor of getting rid of some of the wrong, as who wouldn't. Relevant here would be LeAnn Rimes' "Family," a better and much smarter song, about how her family's ongoing catastrophe was a living, bubbling-over priceless thing.
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