Essay 8

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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