No Norman Rockwell

This isn't Norman Rockwell
   that you have re-elected;
No small town boy with small town goals,
   if that's what you expected.
Bush sounds like it? Bush looks like it?
   It's too bad that he ain't.
He's the we-don't-need-it-but-we'll-take-it-
   thank-you-Junior's patron saint.

Fueled and funded by big businesses
   whose interests aren't yours:
Enron, WorldCom, Peabody,
   and Halliburton whores;
Big drug manufacturers
   whose prices here are higher
With no imported drugs allowed
   as they and Bush conspire.

Bush is no Norman Rockwell;
   nor is he Robin Hood,
In fact he's Robin in reverse:
   At robbin' you he's good.
Unless you, too, are filthy rich
   and don't need more greenbacks,
In which case expect to pay
   damn little in the way of tax.

Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
11/6/04