This is the best, most succinct review:

audi:

It took collaborating with Paul McCartney to come up with this piece of sh-t?

The thread title immediately brought to mind "Party Party." That's a pretty neglected little tune, too.

There would be a few "skips" along the way, but the most obvious one for me is "Promise to You Girl," one of the most blithely awful songs in Paul's catalog.

"From a Lover to a Friend" A threadbare excuse for a song. Sir P. should have written some lyrics instead of trying to adlib a vocal.

It isn't particularly faithful to the original melody, is it? Sounds a bit haphazard.

cfergoid:

I thought it was dreadful...like a rubbish Helter Skelter wannabe.

Indeed. The attention given to the piece is due entirely to the celebrity of the people who made it, not to the merits of the song. There is precious little composition to speak of.

mustangsally10:

The Iraq war has left us with a much bigger problem. Saddam Hussein, was Iran's greatest enemy, because of that Tehran's influence in Iraq is much stronger today than is America's. Iran does not control Iraq but Tehran no longer has anything to fear from its western neighbor now that a Shia-dominated government sits in Baghdad, made up of parties whose leaders spent long years of exile in Iran under Saddam . The Iraq war was a debacle we will be paying for for decades.

I agree with a lot of what Sally says (did hell freeze over this week??). There certainly was a neutralizing effect when Saddam Hussein was in power, helping to keep Iran subdued. Debacle? I think that remains to be seen, and it may be very hard to quantify the effect of the war down the road, considering the way things seem to be coming undone far and wide in the Middle East since the beginning of this year.

mustangsally10:

... Basically the bush administration took advantage of the after shock of 9/11 to start an unnecessary illegal war by lying about the reasons. that's it in a nutshell...

Bless her heart, more fairy dust from the fertile imagination of our Sally. I'm no fan of the UN, but that resolution received a unanimous vote from the Security Council. (Sally, that means all of the members voted in favor of it. It wasn't only George Bush who decided to invade.) What do you mean by "illegal" and by "lying"? Please explain, and try to be coherent. And don't repeat that tired line about no WMDs. We know Hussein had WMDs. Do you know how we know, in addition to all the available intelligence? We know because HE USED THEM. Did you know that, Sally? Read it again - Hussein USED weapons of mass destruction, and he never did account for getting rid of them as required by multiple UN resolutions.

mustangsally10:

...tell me why are you a republican...what have the republicans done for you or even for the US in modern times??

There it is, folks, the classic parasite-liberal mindset. There?s Sally, crouched in her Daily Kos echo chamber, arms folded, foot tapping, waiting for her politician to DO SOMETHING for her. What a waste. Sally, I?m not waiting for any politician to do anything for me. I expect them to abide by the Constitution, respect the separation of powers, and basically stay the hell out of the way. My life is what I make of it, not what a politician makes of it for me. And how did you decide I?m a Republican -- because I detest the reptile in the White House? I?m a Conservative, not a Republican. There are plenty of Republicans who have disgusted me over the years, too. One of the worst things George Bush ever said was, ?I violated the principles of the free market to save the free market.? No, George. What you should have said is, ?I violated the principles of the free market.? Period. John Kennedy had a good quote. Sally, he was the 35th president of the United States, back in the early ?60s. He was a Democrat and he was more conservative than most of today?s Republicans. He said, ?Ask not what your country can do for you.? I?ll bet you don?t even know the next line. It is obvious you wouldn?t agree with it.

mustangsally10:

what do you think Obama was thinking when he was shaking his hand...I'm going to get you..sucker and he did

In your heart you know Barry is hopeless. As with the line above, your posts always scream, "I just want to like this guy! Forget the truth, watch me polish this steamy pile!!" So is he trying to take credit for this? "Leading from behind" is an idiotic phrase concocted to claim credit when someone else was in charge. Maybe the governor of Oklahoma should take some credit, too. She didn't have anything to do with it either. You are Debbie Wasserman Schultz, aren't you?