Last week I took my 94 year old mother to the polls in Cleveland to cast her early vote for Obama. She moved to Ohio a few years ago after living the previous 65 years in the San Francisco Bay Area, and she was very excited to have lived long enough to cast her vote for the first African American president, and to be able to cast it in a battleground state. In the car on the way back we were giddy and exuberant, so once I got home I decided to celebrate our joint sense of excitement by writing some silly political poetry, inspired by John Cleese's recent "Ode to Sean Hannity". My Odes to Sarah Palin and John McCain are below the fold.
“Ode to Sarah Palin”
Wasilla hailin’
Folksy wailin’
Earmark availin’
“Bridge” bewailin’
Convention unveilin’
Seemed clear sailin’
“Maverick” unfailin’
“Joe Six Pack” regalin’
Moose impalin’
Putin curtailin’
Interview flailin’
Dan Quailin’
Media nailin’
Fey detailin’
Winks unfailin’
Rape kit assailin’
Trooper blackmailin’
Scandals trailin’
Time for jailin’
Hate exhalin’
Riot entailin’
GOP derailin’
Polls are ailin’
Economy’s failin’
Republicans bailin’
Obama’s prevailin’
Palin
“Ode to John McCain”
Crashes fifth plane
Channels John Wayne
Surge on the brain
Troops will remain
Iraqis slain
Bush’s third reign
Veep is birdbrain
Whose winks entertain
Exposed as inane
Fey yanks her chain.
Media constrain
Attempts to retrain
All are in vain.
Economy in pain
Bankers complain
Suspends his campaign
Debate plans detain
Letterman’s disdain
Taxpayers drain
Bailout obtain
Wall Street to gain.
Polls on the wane
Will soon need a cane
Won’t talk to Spain
Keating again
“That one’s” to blame
Pitbull unchain
“Ayers” refrain
Invokes “Hussein”
Mob gets profane
Fails to restrain
Tactics insane
McCain