Agree with Cool Beans -- except to add that as I read through this excellent lyric, I kept hearing Homer and Jethro's 'Sink the Bismark' not the one from the movie.

That business with Bush landing on the carrier has always struck me as a little spooky -- and reminded me of a different lyric.

There is a question about whether GW actually finished his hitch in the reserves and could be considered AWOL. So we get into the war and then he gets out of the fighter, as though he belonged in the flight suit, in a nice military-looking photo-op.

What is spooky to me is that although there are questions about GWB's service record, there are none about his father's. Our former president was a carrier pilot shot down (I believe this was why his plane came down but am not 100 percent certain) in WWII and fished out of the ocean by a sub.

And, oddly enough, W's 2000 Republican rival was John McCain, genuine carrier pilot shot down over Vietnam and a POW for years.

It looks eerily to me like Bush the younger might be trying to somehow measure up or borrow someone else's luster. I don't blame him for wanting a ride in the fighter, I think most of us would like it. But he could have done that any number of times in a low-key manner.

The other lyric? When I think of this incident I seem to hear the Smothers Brothers singing "You buy cowboy clothes, you can be a cowboy too."