White Elephants
From very recent trends in the selection of VP running mates
And developments burned into the nation's psyche
As if with a branding iron from the Bar-Bush-666 Ranch,
Over the past eight years of Dubya's administration,
Certain undeniabilities are raising their Medusan heads:
America's lust for fluffy superficiality over substance,
Good-old-boy and -gal six-pack chumminess,
Straight-shooter talk, with-us-or-against-us bravado
(Which the average soccer dad and hockey mom can relate to),
Over high-falutin', professorial examination of the issues.
These manifestations of ignorance, equalizing the populace,
Egalitarianizing our NASCAR democracy,
Are rays of light signaling that we may yet redeem ourselves,
By electing a pair of white elephants,
Who can lead us on a stampede through our Promised Land.
10/02/08 - (2)
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