Though he doesn't write political songs, Sixteen Military Wives (a track off Picaresque , the band's third and latest full-length album) does have political overtones, as seen in the humorous video clip depicting a model United Nations conference in a high school with the U. S. representative acting like a self-important bully. It's kind of a protest song, ... My objective is to make sense of foreign policy decisions taken by the current Bush administration and showing how they resemble solipsistic bullying.
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