Posted on 12/20/2008 9:56:41 AM PST by Ooh-Ah
Edited on 12/20/2008 11:11:39 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Weve just heard Rod Blagojevich quoting Rudyard Kiplings famous poem, If. With apologies to Kipling, heres a version revised for the current circumstances:
If . Kipling Only Knew
If you can keep your job while all about you
Are fielding bribes and blaming it on you,
If you can duck the Feds while all men doubt you,
And bleep-ing show the charges are untrue,
If you can fight and not be tired by fighting,
Or, being wiretapped, profess surprise,
Or argue that there will be no indicting
Because its all a bleep-ing pack of lies.
If you can scheme - but never scheme in writing,
If you can talk - but not from your home phone,
If you can face the press and keep reciting
That truth is on your side, though youre alone;
If you can bear to hear the bleeps youve spoken
Quoted on Fox TV and Meet the Press
Or watch that Senate seat become a token
Of all the things theyd like you to confess
If you can just accuse them all of spinning
And quote a bit of Kipling on the way
And comb your hair and somehow keep on grinning
And tell them no one ever paid to play;
If you can force them to accept your own rights
To publicly refuse this bitter cup,
And fight them till youve drained yourself of sound bites,
Except the Will to say to them: Shut up!
If you once walked with Rezko and Obama
Or spoke with Jesse Junior and with Rahm
If you can overcome this legal drama,
If you can show that no one greased your palm
If you can take that Senate seat and fill it
With someone who will swear youre not a knave
Yours is the Land of Lincoln, and yet still it
Will have Kipling rolling over in his grave.
I however will quote Kipling:" A woman is a woman but a good cigar is a smoke."
Blago never got to grips with Kipling, but he tried ruddy hard.
This was one of my mother's favorite poems and I memorized it for sixth grade (long, long ago). I was stunned to hear Blago recite it yesterday. He actually appeared to have it memorized.
EGG-Sell-AT !
It’s hard for people to understand Kipling if they’ve never Kippled.
Sooo treyf the clazy zona
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