Ode To Barack Hussein Hoover
Responding to his political crisis, President Obama is doing precisely the wrong thing. As Paul Krugman said,
A spending freeze? That’s the brilliant response of the Obama team to their first serious political setback?
It’s appalling on every level.
Something tells me that Obama’s State of the Union address is going to be jam-packed with pandering double talk.
And that brings me to my latest limerick:
Ode To Barack Hussein Hoover
By Madeleine Begun Kane
Prez Obama, once shaker and mover,
Is reduced to a pand’ring maneuver.
Dealt a setback, his plan
Is a spending freeze? Man!
We’ve elected a latter-day Hoover.
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Tags: Economy Satire, Herbert Hoover, Obama poem, Pandering, Paul Krugman, Political Setbacks, Recession, SOTU, Spending Freeze
Amen. I don’t know how much more “stupid” I can take.
All that ”11-dimensional chess” we’ve been told to believe in seems to really have been Chinese checkers.
Our votes for a man we thought bold
Were wasted when his feet got cold
Concedes to the Right
Because he won’t fight
And when he plays poker he folds.
He sold us a bid based on Hope
Now it seems he just played Rope-a-dope
Threw the Left overboard
Let our health care get gored
As for Main Street, they’ll just have to cope.
“I’d rather be good for one term
’cause for eight years I can’t stay that firm”
Viagra won’t help
And the right wing would yelp
And so goes the Turn of the Worm
Solonor, I feel the same way.
Linkmeister, that sounds about right.
And Realist, thanks for the verse!
Your limerick says it all, but you are much too nice to our modern-day “Hoover.” Obama really does “suck” and badly!, but he really has no resemblance to a man as noble as Herbert C. Hoover. Herbert Hoover was at least a well-meaning and honest man, whose programs during his career in Washington fed millions of starving people around the world before he became president. It was because of his efforts that the United States became the bread basket of the world. He was a progressive who detested laissez-faire policies. Herbert Hoover