Posted on 12/20/2008 1:03:48 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Edited on 12/20/2008 1:10:52 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Obama has been touted as among the most literary presidents in modern history, but his choice for an inaugural poet has some scratching their heads.
Acting more like a man of politics than a man of letters, Obama picked former Chicago neighbor and family chum Elizabeth Alexander to deliver an original inaugural poem next month. Alexander, 46, is an African-American studies professor at Yale. Her brother worked on Obama’s campaign and transition team, according to the New Yorker magazine.
Picky detail, but the Who song "Won't Get Fooled Again" was written by that great poet and philosopher Pete Townshend, not that other great poet and philosopher Roger Daltrey.
Great idea, though, for the inauguration!!
ROFL!
Sounds like somebody being taken on a fishing trip in the “Stugotz”.
I guess I'll have to accept that.
Bart.
I still have my father’s volumes of Ogden Nash’s poetry! (Over 60 years old).
Great stuff!
Sounds like welfare recipients have found a voice.
Rockin' the Right (National Review Online).
That article has an excellent list; might not agree with every single one, but overall, terrific!
This fraud cashing in on her race is a poet in the same way Barfsack is a good American. I will not watch the pretender be crowned or hear her rotten, lowlife poetry because, as the worthy poet e.e. cummings penned: “there is some shit I will not eat”.
I'm not so sure. Even though we would look upon the birth process with all of its manifestations with fond regard; especially when such occasions were associated with the birth of our children, this poet may not be giving such occasion such honor.
There are several images the poet presents in Neonatology (medical art of the birth process) that I find stark. For instance,
"love is all tit, all wheat-smelling milk, humid crook of the arm where your warm, damp head seems to live.
I pretend your clasping my finger means you love me."
This is poetry like crucifixes in urine is art. I’d truly like to see if she can diagram a sentence — any sentence! She and Cornell West can wallow in each others’ stupidity at Yale (or is it Princeton that is lately filling his trough?)
Cornell West was part of the package when Skip Gates went to Harvard. He took offense with Larry Summers when he said that he didn’t think rap music qualified as scholarly publication, and went to Princeton, where he still is.
A freak show, it is
This might be his first known association who isn't a terrorist, criminal or dyed in the wool Marxist communist. More research needed.
Hey, don’t be so sensitive. I was just trying to lighten it up.
No problem. I got the humor. I love "Animal House". A better movie in my opinion is "Idiocracy".
I’ll have to check that out...:)
One of my favs from Bierce although I don’t agree with his views, I appreciate his craft:
“The man was in such deep distress,”
Said Tom, “that I could do no less
Than give him good advice.” Said Jim:
“If less could have been done for him
I know you well enough, my son,
To know that’s what you would have done.”
—Jebel Jocordy
I bet you will love it.
Bart.
Here's a poem that I wrote for fallen wildland firefighters. If I can do this there's GOT to be better poets who do it for a living than this fraud!
I Saw You Up The Mountain
I saw you up the mountain,
Walking through the haze,
In sooted turnouts dusty yellow,
Cast dark against the blaze.
I’m sure I did. You can’t be missed!
You are someone I know.
One I’ll never fail to see,
Where ever I must go.
It was where I fought beside you,
And then cried as you were lost.
Right there beside the memory,
Of what our fight has cost.
I know that’s where I saw you,
And it’s where I see you still,
All double-time and courage,
As we charge another hill.
I see you at the base camp
With your cup, and yes, a joke,
And the rasping of your laughter,
Meant to wash away the smoke.
You are with me in the chow line
At the table saying grace
And I pray like anything
“Just once, Lord, let me see that face.”
I saw you up the mountain,
And I’ll see you there again,
And in every place they send me,
Where the fire is, and then,
I’ll watch the plume rise upward,
As it lilts from star to star
Outward past heaven’s wild lands,
To where you really are.
Wow cartoonistx. What a wonderful, well constructed, deeply touching and sad poem you have written. It is so well done and powerful! Please if you feel comfortable can you FReep mail me with your name. I would like to keep this poem with me and I want your real name on it if you feel comfortable. If not I understand. But your name is safe with me. I hope you do not mind me being so forward, but I found this so touching and want it near me. We had firefighters save our home this summer and I really came to understand more than ever the risks they take whenever they are up there. It is also about loss and speaks so specifically to that as well. Well done! Well done! Bravo! :-D
Musturd colored? She needs to go to the doctor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giardia_lamblia
“It’s interesting that all Democrat Prssidents are geniuses and all Republican Presidents are stupid, according to the media, anyway.”
Dan Quayle, though he tended to produce hilarious quotes (and many are falsely attributed to him) is actually very bright.
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