What Would Lennon Do?

Yesterday, The New York Times ran an interesting story about Condoleezza Rice and her trip to England.

Here's the part I found the most interesting:

"Ms. Rice wanted to meet Paul McCartney later in the day, when they were here in Liverpool. But he said he could not make it, so Ms. Rice visited the Liverpool Institute for the Performing Arts, where he was once a student."

In my reading of that sentence, "he said he could not make it" is polite, Times-speak for "Sod off, you bloody war criminal."

There's no doubt that Rice was deliberately, if politely, snubbed by Paul McCartney, who did not wish to be seen with one of the architects of this disastrous war. He didn't make a federal case out of it -- that's not his way. Paul was always the most polite of the four mop-tops.

But make no mistake about it -- he wanted it known that he wanted no part of Condoleezza Rice.

It made me wonder what John Lennon would have done in a similar situation. I have the feeling that Lennon would have met with her, and then given her an earful as the reporters took down every word.

But that's just my opinion. To paraphrase Wordsworth:

Lennon! thou should'st be living at this hour:
America has need of thee...

Tom Moran