‘Twas the day of Obama
Posted January 20th, 2009 at 9:39 AM by Jon SandersDisclaimer: When it comes to Inauguration Day poems, I freely admit I’m no Robert Frost:
‘Twas the day of Obama, when all through the land
Every creature was scurrying with an outstretched hand
The naïve were jostling for position to stare,
Knowing that Saint Hope’n'Change soon would be there;
The failing were getting all snug with the Fed,
While visions of bailout plums danced in their heads;
And mamma with her mortgage, and car needing gas,
Thinks HE will pay for them while she sits on her —
Eh, never mind. I’ve got to get the kids bundled up to play in the rare snow. So please accept my regrets for this aborted effort — it was rather obviously based on Clement Clark Moore anyway. But not to worry; I hear abortion and plagiarism are in again.
Disclaimer 2: Obviously, by dint of not limning on dinosaur turds in the first stanza, I’m no Maya Angelou, either.
January 20th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
Very nice.
January 21st, 2009 at 6:14 pm
More racist stereotyping from Right Angles…and Jon Ham isn’t even involved this time. This time we have minstrel-in-training Jon Sanders to thank for this witticism.
“And mamma with her mortgage, and car needing gas,
Thinks HE will pay for them while she sits on her —”
What’s the matter Jon…was “Cadillac driving welfare queen” too hard for you to rhyme? Unsurprisingly, the video you linked to showed a black woman who had taken her daughter to an Obama rally. I don’t know her story, and of course neither do you, but maybe she was enthusiastic about Obama because she was one of the 2.6 million Americans who have lost their job in 2008 under the final year of George Bush’s ownersip society? Maybe you think that all the Americans who aren’t working just need to get off their ass? Since you seem to want to make assumptions about other people and their work ethic, let me make one about you. If you’re so good at what you do, why don’t you start your own blog instead of depending on Art Pope for a handout? Are you and your fellow JLF bloggers afraid to test the marketplace of ideas without the Pope safety net? Just asking.
Keep it up guys. If you want to stay a small, white, increasingly irrelevant regional party it’s OK with me.
Steve Turner
January 21st, 2009 at 8:01 pm
Steve, I am sure you’ve been given many a “Lighten up, Francis” in your life. Still, there is projection, and then there is your post. You infer racism on my part just because the woman in the news video (which is well-known) who says she won’t have to worry about putting gas in her car or paying her mortgage if Obama is elected is black. As if I smile on such deplorable, self-destructive naivete coming from a white person swept up in the enticing nothingness of the “Hope” and “Change” sloganeering. You have so thoroughly missed the point that I have to think you have done so on purpose.
I cannot help noticing that you are the one assuming she drives a Cadillac and is on welfare. I merely reacted to the content of her speech. Do you habitually judge people by their skin instead of their ideas, or are you providing Right Angles readers with a special treat today?
You seem to have a reflexive response of readily accusing people of racism whenever they differ with your politics. Are you really that paralyzed by dissent from your worldview without that security blanket? Just asking.
January 22nd, 2009 at 9:56 am
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January 22nd, 2009 at 10:42 am
And it would help if I spelled your name right. I’m missing my usual morning Dew.