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Obamandias
yours truly (original) | 10/17/2013 | Claud

Posted on 10/17/2013 5:53:28 AM PDT by Claud

Obamandias

I met a traveller from a bankrupt land

Who said: Two vast and empty vaults of stone

Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,

Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,

And fly-ridden lip, and sneer of cold command,

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,

The hand that built that and the heartless Fed:

And on the teleprompter these words appear:

"My name is Obamandias, Kenyan king:

Look on my works, ye Whitey, and despair!"

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that hope and change, boundless and bare

The lone and level sands stretch far away.


TOPICS: Humor; Poetry
KEYWORDS: obamandias
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1 posted on 10/17/2013 5:53:28 AM PDT by Claud
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To: Claud

I’ve given up after yesterday. I am, as the saying goes, “Letting Go and Letting God.”

I only pray my demise is swift. Obama is going to destroy this nation. He still has 3 years to do immeasurable damage.


2 posted on 10/17/2013 5:56:37 AM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: Claud

3 posted on 10/17/2013 5:56:56 AM PDT by Diogenesis
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To: Claud

Season title for the last season of Breaking Bad.

Quite appropriate really.


4 posted on 10/17/2013 5:57:09 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Claud

Good work!


5 posted on 10/17/2013 6:00:11 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Good morning, Jim.

May I suggest that we have a new forum created specifically geared for the gloom and doomers?

Maybe call it “The Summer Soldier” or “The Sunshine Patriot”?


6 posted on 10/17/2013 6:02:41 AM PDT by don-o (Hit the FReepathon hard and fast! Nail this one for the Jimmer. Do it now!)
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To: don-o

LOL don-o.

You’ve misunderstood me. Ozymandias isn’t doom and gloom, it’s strangely comforting: “this too shall pass”.

A thousand years hence (if we have that long), no one will remember this fool.


7 posted on 10/17/2013 6:07:05 AM PDT by Claud
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To: Claud

Problem is We have to live in the interim.


8 posted on 10/17/2013 6:08:53 AM PDT by Venturer (Keep Obama and you aint seen nothing yet.)
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To: Claud

Perhaps I did miss the point. But, my suggestion is still appropriate, based on what I read across the board.


9 posted on 10/17/2013 6:12:01 AM PDT by don-o (Hit the FReepathon hard and fast! Nail this one for the Jimmer. Do it now!)
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To: Claud

Well done!!! Obamanandias indeed! A+ for you.


10 posted on 10/17/2013 6:13:23 AM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: bboop

Love it! Always was a great poem - fits this 0 well.


11 posted on 10/17/2013 6:17:48 AM PDT by NewCenturions
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To: Claud

Well done!


12 posted on 10/17/2013 6:23:18 AM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim ("It is not the color of his skin, ... it is the blackness that fills his soul")
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To: Claud
Totally agree.
Just as the UK was sinking into a stinking socialist morass, a sparkling intellect by the name of Thatcher appeared on the scene.

It can happen again.

13 posted on 10/17/2013 6:34:00 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks ("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
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To: Claud

Epic!


14 posted on 10/17/2013 6:34:02 AM PDT by Jaxmum
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To: Claud

Well done! I will never be able to hear the original without immediately remembering the words to your edition.


15 posted on 10/17/2013 6:39:59 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

And even someone doesn’t arise soon...meh. Russia went full-on batcrap crazy with this stuff. Didn’t last a century.


16 posted on 10/17/2013 6:40:58 AM PDT by Claud
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To: Claud

This is exceptionally good...


17 posted on 10/17/2013 6:41:06 AM PDT by Texas dog
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To: wastoute; bboop; NewCenturions; eCSMaster; Jaxmum; MHGinTN; Texas dog

Thanks everyone! You made my day. :)


18 posted on 10/17/2013 6:46:54 AM PDT by Claud
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To: Claud
I'm in love with Norma Loquendi.
19 posted on 10/17/2013 6:53:59 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks ("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
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To: Claud

I like it so much, I’m printing it out in large block letters, to grace the wall of my office.


20 posted on 10/17/2013 6:54:11 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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