“Just to sing…”

“Though your brother's bound and gagged
And they've chained him to a chair”

No, it isn’t Abu Ghraib or march to Guantanamo by Catholics to protest treatment of terror suspects there that has brought these lyrics to my mind.

It is the death of Senator Eugene McCarthy that brings these words to mind.

” Won't you please come to Chicago
Just to sing”

Yesterday, I was at a meeting of people working to Draft Lowell Weicker to run as a Democrat against Joe Lieberman. Weicker served his first term in the Senate in 1972. Gene McCarthy had just left the Senate. Some of the folks who were at the meeting had ‘Come clean with Gene” in 1968.