Maybe most of you are to close to the subject to see that when those in the media use the term "Kumbaya moment" it is synonymous with claptrap. It is a song everybody knows and salutes. Yes, maybe smarmy to some but it's really about putting something forward that is not new and doesn't raise anyone's hackles. Leastwise, that's my take.

I like Kumbaya. I never got to hear it enough. Too much rock on the stations where I grew up.

As for Joyce Kilmer, yes smarmy and boy, could he ever mix metaphors!