Dear Mr President

Pink wrote the song “Dear Mr. President,” on Martin Luther King Day in 2005. The song was released as a single in 2007 and became apart of her album I’m Not Dead. The song is a direct criticism of President George W. Bush and the policies of his administration. Pink addresses the major concerns of most Americans.
The song begins “Dear Mr. President/ Come take a walk with me. Let’s pretend we’re just two people and/ You’re not better than me.” By stating this as an invitation Pink is directly asking the President to listen to her opinions. Through equalizing social standings, she is diminishing the respect that the President demands, Pink is stating that she will be truthful with him and not sugar coat Tanya Kaplan
Song Analysis
The media did not portray the mass destruction inflicted on the country of Iraq or report the effect that the war was having on military families.
There are additional hot button social issues that Pink addresses with the President through her song. She states “What kind of father would take his own daughter’s rights away? And what kind of father might hate his own daughter if she were gay? I can only imagine what the first lady has to say.” Tanya Kaplan
Song Analysis
03/10/09
These statements denote George Bush’s policy of anti‐abortion, his attempt to refute the Rowe v. Wade decision and to take away a women’s right to abortion. These statements also call into question the administrations anti‐gay policies. Ironically Vice‐President Cheney’s daughter is gay. It is near impossible to imagine how the President can instill his anti‐gay rhetoric while his second in