Feel free to publish, post, or pass on Your Weekly Politickle by F.R. Duplantier:
MAKING AN OMELET
It’s not optimal spilling the beans,
And far safer to hide behind screens,
Using cute comrade code
Such as “bumps in the road”
When an end’s deemed to justify means.
From the archive:
HERE WE GO AGAIN!
Jimmy Carter’s the president when
Some insane Arab protests begin
And is justly rewarded,
Being rightly regarded
As a laughingstock ever since then.
(2012)
RUSSIAN
“Please, Vlady, let’s slow down the pace,
You really must give me more space,
Because after November
I’ll have time to dismember
What’s left of the United States.”
(2012)
OATHBUSTER
When he swore, did Obama intend
To preserve and protect and defend?
Were his motives all wrong,
Did he plan all along
To presume and project and upend?
(2012)
THIS JUST IN!
More attacks from al Qaeda ahead!
Rising prices for milk, eggs, and bread!
Higher government spending!
Higher taxes impending!
And Osama bin Laden’s still dead!
(2011)
HOLDER HELD
For approving operations injurious
And attesting to alibis spurious,
Eric merits a cell
In a hellish hotel,
Doing time with the fast and the furious.
(2011)
OBAMA DOCTRINE
There’s no need for a war on terror.
Just say no to the c’est-la-guerrer.
Everything will be ducky
As long as we’re lucky
And the terrorist makes an error.
(2010)
TOADY
To Arabian shieks he’ll kowtow,
And the Japanese emperor now,
But the one we elect
Ought to show his respect
With a handshake and never a bow.
(2009)
SUBMISSION
These new guidelines are certainly odd:
“We must never denounce the jihad;
We must never demean
The mujahideen,
As they force us to worship their god.”
(2008)
Last week’s limerick:
LAST TIME
“Mr. President, please, tell me why
In your first debate you didn’t try.”
“Well, that question’s a dandy,
And the answer is, Candy,
I tried hard — not to make Romney cry.”