In the past, I’ve been critical of a few of the more frivolous petitions to hit the White House’s “We the folk” online petition site. A petition to construct a functioning Death Star becoming so popular that it receives an official response Not that exciting.

Then you will have the definitely batsh*t petitions just like the ones from states that asked to secede from the Union or to deport Piers Morgan for expressing a view about gun control. What a waste of the platform, whether the platform is shallow and patronizing.

This petition would not qualify as frivolous. That is important.

A new petition with just over 5,300 signatures desires to change the U.S. National Anthem from the tired old Star Spangled Banner to R. Kelly’s 2003 hit “Ignition (Remix).

And they make a compelling argument:

We, the undersigned, would really like the Obama administration to acknowledge the will for a brand new national anthem, person who even a decade after its creation, remains to be hot and fresh out the kitchen. America has changed since Francis Scott Key penned our current anthem in 1814. Since then, we’ve realized that when the show, it’s the afterparty, and that once the party, it’s the hotel lobby, andperhaps most importantlythat ’round about four, you’ve got to clear the lobby, at which point it’s strongly recommended that you are taking it to the room and freak somebody. President Obama: we ask you to acknowledge the evolution of this pretty country and provides us an anthem that better suits the fantastic nation we now have become.

Since the White House recently raised the signature threshold to 100,000, we’re going to ought to do a little exertions to make this successful. i do know we are able to do it guys.