The Great Decider
(With Apologies to the Platters' "The Great Pretender")

by Richard Cummings
by Richard Cummings

Oh yes I'm the great decider (ooh ooh)
Pretending I'm deciding well (ooh ooh)
My need is such I decide too much
I'm deciding but no one can tell

Oh yes I'm the great decider (ooh ooh)
Adrift in a world of my own (ooh ooh)
I play the game but to my real shame
You've left me to decide all alone

Too real are these decisions of make believe
Too real when I feel what my Sec Def
Can't conceal

Ooh Ooh yes I'm the great decider (ooh ooh)
Just bombing and gay like a clown (ooh ooh)
I've decided to be what I'm not (you see)
I decide like I'm wearing a crown
Pretending we've got enough troops on the ground

Yeah ooh ooh
Too real when I feel what my SecDef
Can't conceal

Oh yes I'm the great decider
Just bombing and gay like a clown (ooh ooh)
I've decided to be what I'm not you see
I'm deciding like I wear a crown
Pretending that Rove
Pretending that Rove's still around.

April 20, 2006

Richard Cummings [send him mail] taught international law at the Haile Selassie I University and before that, was Attorney-Advisor with the Office of General Counsel of the Near East South Asia region of U.S.A.I.D, where he was responsible for the legal work pertaining to the aid program in Israel, Jordan, Pakistan and Afghanistan. He is the author of a new novel, The Immortalists, as well as The Pied Piper – Allard K. Lowenstein and the Liberal Dream, and the comedy, Soccer Moms From Hell. He holds a Ph.D. in Social and Political Sciences from Cambridge University and is a member of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers. He is writing a new book, The Road To Baghdad – The Money Trail Behind The War In Iraq. He is a contribution editor for The American Conservative.

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