[Vision2020] Underground: A Poem by Barack Obama

[Paul Rumelhart]

Mr., Ms., Mrs., or Messrs. Anonymous,  we get it.  You loathe Obama.  
You loathe Obama the man, and wish to share your loathing of him with us 
in the hopes we won't vote him into office.  You'll continue to loathe 
him through the election, through what I hope is his first term in 
office, and probably for the rest of your life.  Honestly, we get it.

What we haven't seen is any concern on your part about his actual views 
on the issues.  You care about who he has indirect or run-of-the-mill 
interactions with, you care about his exact citizenship status, and you 
care about what poetry he wrote when he was 19.  I haven't seen you 
tearing his platform apart.  I've just seen you attacking the man.

Paul

No Weatherman wrote:
> Underground
> by Barack Obama
>
> Under water grottos, caverns
> Filled with apes
> That eat figs.
> Stepping on the figs
> That the apes
> Eat, they crunch.
> The apes howl, bare
> Their fangs, dance,
> Tumble in the
> Rushing water,
> Musty, wet pelts
> Glistening in the blue.
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2007/mar/29/barackobama.uselections2008
>
> The British press found this inspirational piece just like they found
> Obama's round-headed brother George:
>
> http://mailman.fsr.com/pipermail/vision2020/2008-September/056787.html
>
> And I think there's a typo in the title. He meant to name it after
> those apes the Weather Underground.
>
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