Stumping through Iowa, in pursuit of the Republican presidential nomination for 2008, Virginia Senator George Allen inconceiveably said that he would have prefered to have been born in Iowa.
In Saturday's speech in Davenport , Allen mentioned that he was almost born in Iowa. His parents met, wed and conceived Allen in Sioux City, he said. They left a few months before he was born when his father, a legendary football coach, accepted a job in California."If I had my druthers, I would have been born in Iowa, but I had to, at the time, remain very close to my mother," he said.
He wasn't born in Iowa, but was rather born in California. Hat tip to Waldo. Great catch.
I submit this song as the unoffical campaign song for George Allen for Senate 2006, and humbly suggest he is greeted by it's drifting refrains wherever he appears in public:
Oh Iowa!: Unoffical Campaign song of the George Allen for Senate 2006 Campaign
*sung to the tune of ?O Shenandoah?*Oh Iowa, I wish I was born there. You are much better than Virginia.
Oh Iowa, I wish I was born there
Away, I?m bound away, until you elect me.Oh Iowa, I love your voters. You are much better than Virginia.
Oh Iowa, I love your voters.
Away, I?m bound away, until you elect me.For six long years I?ve been stuck in the Senate. You are much better than Virginia.
Six long years stuck in the Senate.Away, I?m bound away, until you elect me.
Away, I?m bound away, until you elect me.