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Essay 8 |
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| Oration and Lament over the cold dead policies of the Clinton Presidency | ||
| by publius citizanus I want to thanks them, red stained brothers all, who gave me leave to speak rove of the red hand, jumpout general ashcroft of the long knife, pumpin dick - prince of enemy-tradin-haliburton, and of curse, without precedent incurious george, who are all honorable men there lies the cold dark body of our last president's policies, leaking from the thousand taxing cuts, whose legacy of budget surpluses was ambitious, but ambition should be made of greater deficits than this you were there, when he strove to provide healthcare, sure this was ambitious, when he did thrice turn away, from making short term advantage and set his hard working wife to the task of getting real health benefits; nigh unto the benefits enjoyed by the noble lords of congress; thus and thus, did they savage his wife, who dared to hold secret meetings, to try to forge a deal that would get healhcare for moms and dads and kiddies across the land, but they say she was too secret, and sure they are all honorable men they said he was lustful, seeing beauty in too many, finding an intrinsic attraction in some who he should not touch, in this they said he was ambitious, and sure they are honorable men, who hold only mistrust and vengeful hate in their tiny electric hearts, these men, who say "either you are with me, all the way, unquestioning or against me", he, he was ambitious for love and sure they are all honorable men yes, he strove to unite the tribes of ireland, and held great onerous peace talks, spoke of nation building, and how they mocked him, when he brought the leaders of israelis and palestinians together lustful to make peace, and ambitious for a role of peace maker on the world stage, and in this; he was ambitious, ambition should be made of sterner, steelier stuff than this they laughed when he felt the pain, blocked his nominees for judicial appointments refused to even hear his nominees to the bench even, when they were no more liberal than liberman and in this they said he was ambitious to place moderates in judicial robes, and sure he was ambitious, and they are all honorable men they called him ambitious to cultivate civility and ambitious to make America, remember its values of tolerance and civility, ambitious; to see America turn away from racism, and sexism, and homophobia seeking to put an end to lynchings and hate crimes, ambitious to see an end to racial profiling but in this, they said he was ambitious, when now, leaders of their party have spoken in praise of the glory days of jim crow, when negroes knew their place, hanging from the town square tree, when no queer was safe out of the closet, but they said he was ambitious and sure they are all honorable men... in memoriam oh yeah, and as the precedent said iraq, for the iraqi's.... eventually, when all the wells are dry! publius citizanus |
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