Americans Away From Home

Obama Fever!

It's raging in Europe, and around the world. Outside the U.S., people are crazed to hear what Obama's doing next. I was interviewed by the intrepid Steve Dixon on Sky News, and asked to discuss Barack Obama's trip to Afghanistan. I was told this interview would be shown on Sky worldwide.

Shortly before the interview was to start, everything was changed. I was told I would be having "a bit of a debate" with Charlie Wolf, a staunch Republican supporting John McCain. With no preparation for a debate, and about 30 minutes notice, I did the best I could but to make a point, I fear I humiliated myself as I wound up singing on international television!

I confessed that I can't sing, yet had actually sung a song on worldwide TV, when I got into the car leaving Sky's London studios, telling the driver I'd sung the John McCain song, "Bomb Bomb Iran".

"You need three of them," he said.

"Excuse me?"

"To do the harmony, to do it justice," the driver, Martin Kennedy, said in a lovely British accent. "It's a Beach Boys song, it's an arpeggio, and the harmony's the whole point of that song."

He explained, "It's a very old-fashioned round, like a nursery rhyme, like "Frère Jacques".

"How does this relate to the Sky TV interview?" I asked.

"You should have taken two friends along."

Carole

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