I feel the need to resurrect a poem I wrote about John McCain back in March:
If he's elected there's one thing
Of which we can be sure:
We'll stay in Iraq a thousand years
And then a thousand more.
He says "reform campaign finance";
Runs against the corporate lobby;
But likes to fly on private jets
And meet folks like Chalabi.
And don't you put it past him
He'll do it if he can
We'll be in Iraq a thousand years
Then we'll invade Iran.
He'll jump to ban abortion
And the issue of gay marriage
He'll have affairs and no one cares
But Clinton's he'll disparage.
Justifying the Iraq war
With his time in Vietnam:
With his militaristic mindset
You know just who we'll bomb.
But then, you may ask, what comes next-
What is his long term plan?
Is it Turkey? Egypt? Syria?
Pakistan? Iran?
You needn't be an Einstein
Or the honored Dalai Lama...
To know that this guy just ain't fine
And to support Obama.
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Oh then here's mine from march:
From your poem,
You said to vote Obama as leader of the nation,
Now let’s get the truth out
About this obama-nation
He claims to be a Christian,
But what a blatant lie
He does support abortion
In which countless babies die
He speaks of hope and change
Throughout the US dear
But Universal Healthcare
Costs $65 BILLION a year
Obama speaks ever so passionately
About hope and change
But he does seem to elude in debate
On what he wants to change: how strange!
You accuse McCain about having affairs
With no evidence but lies fly true
But just to let you know
The next president won’t be “blue”
You have to credit Obama
For his 3 years in the senate
He had vote many times
But mostly just “present”!
One of his “tough” challenges
As a U.S. senator
Was his only vote against everyone else
Giving an easier sentence to sex offenders!
He wants to take our troops
Immediately out of Iraq
But no I don’t agree that which we should wait
For another terrorist attack
So for the next presidential race
Me, my brother, sister, and mama
Will only firmly resolve
To never endorse Obama
What worries/disturbs me about both these poems is how negative they are. Neither of them extols the virtues of one candidate, they both just pile insults onto the other.
Perhaps I'm taking this too seriously, but I'm especially ashamed at this stuff coming from Obama's side. What's the point of talking about "change we can believe in" and a "new kind of politics" and then turning around and writing stuff like this?
Maybe I went too far, but I don't think so. It's perfectly valid to post this poem. It's not a treatise. The purpose is to entertain.
Yeah Gobama! Love that guy!
--Anthony
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