A Poem for Contemplation ...

... First off, what the heck is going on in Washington, DC with health care? Earlier this summer 60% of the American people rose up against Congress' pathetic health care plan. So what did Congress decide to do? Well, they decided to create a new, even worse health care bill. I mean you have got to be kidding me, 1990 pages, 400,000 words? Talk about red tape, taxes and tyranny. But, alas, I don't have the patience nor the time to discuss this atrocity further tonight for I am in quite a poetic mood. Today I composed a poem that I just had to place on my blog. Let me preface this by stating that I am not a professional poet (that's for sure), my poem does not subscribe to any particular rule (ex. foots, meters, etc.) save for an ABBA/10 syllable line structure, and it is the first poem I have written since I was in high school. Needless to say, it's not all that great; but hey, it's as good as anything else I post on here. Okay, enough said, here's the poem...

Heavenly Sign

Where shall thou turn in thy eternal quest,
Inverted truth Shadow Prince spread to all,
Nothing seems clear in his dull earthly hall,
Darkness pervades and yet light doth not rest,

Dulcet melody wafts through nature's whole,
Oak, pine, aspen, elm, willow, palm,
These and others, though subdued in the calm,
Hearken in tempest, speak life to the soul,

Sorrow and misery attend thy path,
How easy to deny, to go astray,
Overcome, tossed by doubt many of days,
What doth thou procure, but terrible wrath,

Mercy is given through heavenly sign,
All may observe, all too few understand,
Narcotic minds, damning errors command,
Swept through the air veracity divine,

Know this oh frail man thy Lord is revealed,
In bellow and blast, mistral and flutter,
Noisy gust, soft breeze, how He doth mutter,
Go to swaying forest, to windswept field,

God, though concealed, doth command and doth reign,
Although hidden, His ends or' man doth rule,
Oh attend the wind and act not the fool,
Lift praises, join in thy Maker's refrain.

Obamaisms

"It was also interesting to see that political interaction in Europe is not that different from the United States Senate. There's a lot of -- I don't know what the term is in Austrian, wheeling and dealing." --confusing German for "Austrian," a language which does not exist, Strasbourg, France, April 6, 2009



"No, no. I have been practicing...I bowled a 129. It's like -- it was like Special Olympics, or something." --making an off-hand joke during an appearance on "The Tonight Show", March 19, 2009 (Obama later called the head of the Special Olympics to apologize)



"I didn't want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about doing any seances." --after saying he had spoken with all the living presidents as he prepared to take office, Washington, D.C., Nov. 7, 2008 (Obama later called Nancy Reagan to apologize)



"I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody." -- defending his tax plan to Joe the Plumber, who argued that Obama's policy hurts small-business owners like himself, Toledo, Ohio, Oct. 12, 2008



"What I was suggesting -- you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith..." --in an interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos, who jumped in to correct Obama by saying "your Christian faith," which Obama quickly clarified (Watch video clip)



"I'm here with the Girardo family here in St. Louis." --speaking via satellite to the Democratic National Convention, while in Kansas City, Missouri, Aug. 25, 2008

"Let me introduce to you the next President -- the next Vice President of the United States of America, Joe Biden." --slipping up while introducing Joe Biden at their first joint campaign rally, Springfield, Illinois, Aug. 23, 2008



"Just this past week, we passed out of the, out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee -- which is my committee -- a bill to call for divestment from Iran as way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don't obtain a nuclear weapon." --referring to a committee he is not on, Sderot, Israel, July 23, 2008

"Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain...administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change." --Amman, Jordan, July 22, 2008



"How's it going, Sunshine?" --campaigning in Sunrise, Florida



"On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes -- and I see many of them in the audience here today -- our sense of patriotism is particularly strong."



"Hold on one second, sweetie, we're going to do -- we'll do a press avail." --to a female reporter for ABC's Detroit affiliate who asked about his plan to help American autoworkers (Watch video clip)



"I've now been in 57 states -- I think one left to go." --at a campaign event in Beaverton, Oregon (Watch video clip)



"Why can't I just eat my waffle?" --after being asked a foreign policy question by a reporter while visiting a diner in Pennsylvania



"It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." --explaining his troubles winning over some working-class voters



"The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person, who, if she sees somebody on the street that she doesn't know, you know, there's a reaction that's been bred in our experiences that don't go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way, and that's just the nature of race in our society."



"Come on! I just answered, like, eight questions." --exasperated by reporters after a news conference



"You're likeable enough, Hillary." --during a Democratic debate



"In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died -- an entire town destroyed." --on a Kansas tornado that killed 12 people



"Everybody knows that it makes no sense that you send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable illness like asthma. They end up taking up a hospital bed, it costs, when, if you, they just, you, you just gave them treatment early, and they got some treatment, and uh, uh breathalyzer, an, uh, intillater, not a breathalyzer. I haven't had that much sleep in the last 48 hours, so. What they'll say is, well it costs too much money, but you know what, it would cost about, it, it would cost about the same as what we would spend, it, over the course of ten years it would cost what it cost us, it, uh, alright, okay, we're going to. It would cost us about the same as it would cost, for about, hold on one second, I can't hear myself, but I'm glad you're fired up, I'm glad. Haha" -- Obama giving a speech on health care reform"



What a genius!

I Salute You, Representative Joe Wilson of South Carolina

Tonight President Obama took center stage (which he all too often does) and delivered his much anticipated speech on "his" health insurance plan. I caught the vast majority of the speech (all that I could stomach) and I must say, Obama really out did himself.

Tonight's speech might have set a record for the most incoherently coherent speech of all time. Obama talked about, well, nothing for 50+ minutes, but by George he sounded good doing it. He rambled on and on and on without providing any real specifics. He denounced the public option and then five minutes later extolled it. If one was to count the lies and fairy tales that protruded from our President's lips, he would find that they numbered more than the pages in Tolstoy's War and Peace. Obama bashed Republicans, Radio and Cable hosts, and everyday Americans.

After 10-15 minutes of listening to this pointless dribble, I had seriously had enough, that is to say, I couldn't simply sit silently by and listen; I began laughing at Obama and denouncing his outlandish claims. I'm glad to see that I wasn't the only one who had had enough of the crap (sorry to use that word, but it beats the alternative).

As Obama began lying about illegal immigrant coverage (i.e. he claimed that the "reform efforts" would not insure illegals), Representative Joe Wilson of South Carolina stood up and shouted "You Lie!"

Obama's head snapped to look and see who would dare oppose him. Pelosi's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets and Joe Biden woke up. Here take a look for yourself...




Classic, truly classic. One man dared to stand up to the president and call him what he is, to his face, on national tv; a liar! Decorum be damned, Joe Wilson, like I, had had enough of Obama's lies and he couldn't sit on his hands any longer.

I read a story in the AP, which was released minutes after the conclusion of the speech and the whole tenor of the story was one of bashing Wilson and describing how inappropriate his comments were; how rude, how infantile, how childish, etc.

The story quoted John McCain as saying, "Wilson's behavior was totally disrespectful. There is no place for it in that setting, or any other, and he should apologize for it immediately."

House Majority Steny Hoyer, a Democrat, said that he would speak with GOP leadership to see whether or not Wilson should be punished for his "shameful" act.

Wilson was forced to apologize. He explained that "this evening I let my emotions get the best of me."

Well, let me say something to you Mr. Wilson...You sir, have absolutely nothing to apologize for. Yes, you broke protocol, yes, you interrupted Obama's speech, but, you only did what every other informed, patriotic, Constitutional abiding citizen would have done. You stood up to tyranny! Obama may be the president, but last I checked, he IS NOT our dictator. In my books, when a man stands in front of the Congress of the United States of America and more importantly, the people of this great land, and tells one lie after another in an effort to destroy the Constitution, something has to be done. You're two word "out-burst" was the only truthful thing that the cameras picked up tonight. John McCain is an irrelevant and timid coward and Hoyer, well, let's be honest, he's a communist. You sir are more honorable than either of those two men; you are a great American and for that I salute you. You have my full support and respect. Whatever the media created backlash is to your bold and honest assessment of the president's speech, I want you to know that millions upon millions of American are standing behind you 100%. Keep fighting for what is right Joe! God bless you!