Showing posts with label Jeb Bush. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jeb Bush. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

New poem: Jeb! Got A Gun: inspired by Aerosmith song.

Dum, dum, dum, Jeb! what have you done?
Dum, dum, dum it's the picture of my gun.
Dum, dum, dum, Jeb! what have you done?
Dum, dum, dum it's the picture of my Twitter gun

Jeb! got a gun
Jeb! got a gun
His whole world's come undone
From lookin' straight at Carolina sun
What did his daddy do?
What did Baby Brother put him through?

Jeb! got a gun
Jeb! got a gun
His dog day's just begun
Trying to get Trump on the run
Tell me now it's untrue.
What did his mommy do?

It's Jeb's last I.O.U.
Got a lot to lose.
Running for dynasty.
Stumbling in campaign shoes.

Run away, run away from the pain yeah, yeah yeah yeah
Run away run away from the pain yeah yeah
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Run away, run away, run, run away yeah

[Frenzied guitar solo, then sound bytes of Trump/Cruz/Rubio/Kasich/Carson, then slow fade]

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Regarding President Obama: it may be time for lowered expectations.

I don't remember exactly where I read it during the 1980s; a quote that's returned to my mind today may have been in ADVERTISING WEEKLY or BARRON'S or THE WALL STREET JOURNAL or perhaps THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS.

Here's the quote: "You cannot penalize successful people."

And, regarding President Barack Obama's approach to people in danger of losing their homes, he seems to not want to penalize lenders all that much. Here's two articles from NPR.org: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100834725
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100843174

Here's how I view the first month of the Obama Administration: Obama is being "business-friendly" and bending over backwards in the name of bipartisanship for the Republican Party, which, in turn, is still unrepentantly clanging away in Karl Rove/Rush Limbaugh scorch-the-earth propaganda mode--willing to dole out propaganda to the unthinking, preparing the party faithful for the Presidential clash-of-titans of Jeb Bush and Sarah Palin in the 2012 primaries.

The little people are having to wait their turn until the big people get their big money--and it's safe to say that Obama isn't emulating FDR (who wasn't shy about angering and challenging plutocrats during the Great Depression) all that much.

But there has been a fair amount of no-more-doing-it-George-Bush's-way symbolism to calm the public.

Regarding the War on Terror, however, Obama may maintain certain Bush policies--but (my guess) turn the volume down in hopes that the majority of Americans, worried about the horrible economy, won't pay much attention. Joan Walsh (someone I don't always agree with) of Salon.com articulates this fear: http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/02/19/obama_detention/