You can't pin a medal to a metal heart.

You know I can tell you which movie had the biggest box-office draw this past weekend or that we are in the midst 0f a Southwest Airlines fare sale but when it comes to politics I admit I am bad at keeping up with the latest. So when Roland filled me in on the current Karl Rove/FBI leak deal working it sparked my curiosity to read up a bit.

Isn't funny how President Bush can just sweep his pledge from June 2004 to dismiss any leakers of Valerie Plame's identity under the rug? It all just gets more frustrating and confusing as I read on. It must be nice to be able to sit in the president's chair have the liberty to change one's mind about how to deal with an issue depending upon how it works to one's advantage. It all ties back to the war in Iraq and how things just keep getting more confusing and unanswered but are the blinders the leaders in this country wear really working that well? They must be.

I wonder if the President has the Garbage song Metal Heart on his I-Pod? Shirley Manson's lyrics put it simply.

I wish I had a metal heart
I could cross the line
I wish that I was half as good
As you think I am

But now that we know for sure
they're telling lies
when they say no one gets hurt
and therefore nobody dies

You know it's hard to believe anything that you hear
They say the world is round

Musicians have always had the advantage of using their music as a mechanism to bring their message, political or otherwise, to large audiences. But with that is the chance (and probability) of misinterpretation. It happened in a huge way in 1984-85 with Springsteen's Born in the USA (the largest misreference to it being done so by then President Reagan). So I thought it was kinda funny that during the airing of last night's MBL All-Star game FOX chose to use Green Day's American Idiot as on-air music in-between innings. Haven't they read the lyrics at all? Granted it is not an anti-American song. Green Day lead singer Billy Joe states that every time he sings the song live. But he also makes sure to mention that it is an anti-war song. Much in the vein of Metal Heart it clearly states opinions and feelings that I myself feel a good majority of the country believes.