So, it looks like England's favorite Southpaw, Paul McCartney, has been in the news today?  What for, you ask?  For claiming that he, not John, was the real 'Political Beatle'.

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To the uninitiated, this may seem like utter blasphemy. 

But, you might say to yourself, didn't John write overtly political songs like 'Give Peace a Chance', 'Revolution' 'All You Need Is Love', 'Power to the People' and 'Imagine'?  Those of you more well-versed in Lennon lore might also add 'John Sinclair', 'I Don't Wanna Be A Soldier', 'Gimme Some Truth', and 'Woman Is the Nigger of the World' to this repertoire.  Inversely, you might argue, didn't Paul write lachrymose ballads such as 'Yesterday', 'Let It Be', 'My Love', and 'Eleanor Rigby'?  Again, the hardcore Beatles devotees might also have included 'Golden Slumbers', 'Calico Skies', 'Your Loving Flame', and 'Wanderlust' to the canon.

Well, that's true, but that's hardly the complete story.  The incredulity many readers might have toward conceptualizing McCartney as 'The Political Beatle', or for that matter, 'A Political Beatle', highlights the John-Paul dichotomy among Beatles fans that ultimately does justice to neither man.  McCartney himself, in the link posted above, makes a persuasive case that he opposed and spoke out against Vietnam before anybody else, playing the Wayne Morse to Lennon's Eugene McCarthy. 

That John Lennon