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| Prez issues edict mandating a new national anthem |
by Andy Nowicki
In a stunning announcement sure to spark controversy, President Obama announced Friday that he has issued an executive order that the United States will adopt a new national anthem.
"The time has come," the president intoned solemnly, as he spoke to the assembled DC press corps on the eve of the Forth of July weekend. "Change is never easy, but sometimes it is necessary," he added.
The new song, Obama indicated, would replace Francis Scott Key's Star Spangled Banner, written in commemoration of the valor of American troops in their defense of Fort McHenry during the War of 1812. The Banner had been a patriotic favorite for many decades, prior to being officially recognized as the official national anthem of the United States by President Woodrow Wilson in 1916.
