Posted on 01/20/2009 12:58:24 PM PST by TheBlueMax
Just be glad Obama’s not from Nantucket.
Poet Laureate Bart Simpson
I got a new tagline from it!
Yup.
Just because nobody understands you doesn’t mean you’re an artist.
Between his choice of poet and the Rev Lowry, I think that Obama is finally signaling what his agenda as president *gag* is going to be. He came out strong with it from the first, lost ground because of it, backtracked and lowered the key. Now that he’s actually in office, I expect to see more and more of this. He didn’t spend 20 years listening to the Rev Wright for nothing. I think his socialist tendencies are strictly based on redistributing to the black race, not a general socialism.
[snicker]
She didn’t use a single word above the third grade level. Her poem was devoid of anything poetic. She must of forgot about the poem and had an 8 year old scribble out something last-minute for her. She would have done better reciting Green Eggs and Ham.
now I know anyone can be a “poet”
wow, I do not have to worry about the tree thing, or the river..
“Elizabeth Alexander is no....Maya Angelou.”
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Wow.
Then she really IS bad....
Obama’s choice? Obsessed with race?
Lemme guess .... she’s black ....
Her style is psychotic pentameter.
*splurp* spill
You owe me a new keyboard!
Not so very different from America's own John Updike.
Elizabeth's father served in more exalted capacities: an adviser to Lyndon Johnson before being named chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and ultimately Secretary of the Army under Jimmy Carter
*wipes eyes*
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Just the thing to inspire us in wartime.
LOL
Your comment was the only laugh I had all day.(Actually, 0 is lucky his name isn’t Alice.)
Modern poetry much like modern art is a haven for the untalented. Arteest wannabe’s.
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