IF (with apologies to Rudyard Kipling)

The velveted paws of the typing tabby ^ | 03-20-2011 | grey_whisker

[grey_whiskers]

If

If you can keep your smile when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But feel superior because OF their doubting too;
If you can claim you are the one for whom we're waiting,
Or, throw others under the bus, yet deal in lies,
Or, watch Reverend Wright for twenty years and not see hating,
And keep cred both in the 'hood, and midst the wise;

If you can Dream - with a book "Dreams From My Father";
But writing for Harvard Law Review just seems so lame;
If showing your birth certificate's too much bother
(It matters not -- an impostor's all the same!)
If you can bear to hear the words you've spoken
Defended by knaves like Gibbs and other tools,
Or gape when the teleprompter that you read from's broken,
And stutter and stammer like a million fools;

If you can make an ash-heap of your electoral winnings
High oil prices and millions of jobs lost,
And act like you are still at the beginning
And push through Health Care like you are the boss;
If you can force your Democratic caucus
To serve your turn long after their majority's gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in it
Except the Will which says to them: "I Won";

If you can talk with Crowds and keep your Virtue,
Then walk with kings - but claim a common touch!
If neither Fox News nor Sarah Palin can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none for much;
If oil spills, war, and natural disasters
Seem just the time for a round of golf or two--
Yours is the Power and the Kingdom and the Glory,
And - what is more - you'll be Obama too!

[grey_whiskers]

(GMTA, and so do ours, but you stole my thunder, you scoundrel!)

You suck. :-D

Cheers!

[Slings and Arrows]

Kipling ninja’ed both of us. ;^)

[Ditter]

Never heard that one!

Are you trying to say that cat lovers don't get attached to their kitties and don't grieve when they are gone? I know better than that. :)

[Ditter]

Come read post #18 and tell me your screen doesn’t get blurry.

[grey_whiskers]

I was just being a cat person. I know I dread the day when my beloved kitteh goes to the great litter box in the sky.

Got her from the Humane Society when she was eight or so weeks old, and she'd curl up on our ribs or collarbone and purr us to sleep in cold Minnesota spring nights.

Nigh a decade later, and she still jumps on my chest in the middle of the night, purring loudly.

I'm gonna miss her: my wife (long jealous of shredded furniture and cat-barfed-on clothes), less so.

[Ditter]

Yes I understand, I am a cat lover too, I just don’t have one anymore. Cat allergies cropped up and made my eyes itch and my nose run. We had 7 cats and 5 dogs at the same time. Too many, I know, but we couldn’t pass up a homeless stray. The last cat was Motorola, a stray from down on the Tex-Mex border. Covered with ringworm but that is curable. When Motor passed on, no more kitties here, just dogs. We have 4 dogs even though the neighborhood and the city of Houston limit is 3. So sue me! Our next door neighbor has 2 English Mastiffs and she told me if we are ever told we must get rid of a dog, just to tell them one of ours is really hers.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks grey_whiskers.

[little jeremiah]

It is still good to read. So thankful 0bola is not stinking up the oval office any more.

I can’t wait for the legal action!