Election Angle

What convenient conviction

will you wear today?

Which way will you tell

the facts?

Which way will you sell

your acts?

What convenient conviction

will you swear today?

Mary, over at dVerse Poets' Pub asked us to write about some aspect of news.  It seems that all I'm hearing is campaign rhetoric.  Click on the link and see what news everyone else is sharing.

U$ and Them

How ironic

in this land of the free

where,

‘All men are created equal,

that they endowed by their Creator

with certain unalienable Rights’

we now

have the best government

that money can buy

(not unlike like our health care system).

Free speech is purchased

with campaign contributions,

and corporations are people too.

We are One Nation under

Adelson, Simmons, Perry, Rowling, Koch, Katzenberg, Jacobs, Eychaner, Stryker and Mostyn     

with liberty and justice for

sale to the highest bidder.

Note: The following were the five largest doners to the 2008 US Presidential election, the first five donated to the Republicans and the next five donated to the Democrats:  Adelson, Simmons, Perry, Rowling, Koch, Katzenberg, Jacobs, Eychaner, Stryker, Mostyn         

Sources: Declaration of Independence, www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/10/19/meet-the-5-biggest-donors-to-the-obama-romney-campaigns/, Pledge of Allegience

Another Note:  This is why I don't normally do political commentary here.  I get so angry that I tend to be heavy handed and clumsy with my writing.  But, meh, one day out of 30.

And last but not least, this is linked to IGRT, NaPoWriMo and PAD.