UNDER PAR? Some Thoughts about the Presidency of George W. Bush

	As the President drives his golf cart
	how many are being driven from their homes?

	While he lifts a titanium club from his bag
	how many missiles are being clubbed or gagged?

	As he frets about a lousy tee-off stroke
	how many millions will become broke?

	As he drives his ball hard across lush greens
	how many others starve unseen?

	If his ball goes too far
	will it cause another military spar?

	And when his ball sinks into the final hole
	what will be lost to reach that goal?


Sam:   D'ya think that most presidents have golf course mentalities?

Tim:   I wish. At least in golf there are rules that must be followed, but some 
       presidents are like dictators who think they're above the law.

Kris:  And in golf the whole performance is open, but who knows what moves are made 
       in secret by top executives?

Sam:   You idealize golf.

Ted:   No, you idealize politics! Who said that politics was a gentle sport? 
       In the end, isn't there only one winner?

Tim:   With that way of thinking, in the long run everybody loses . . . .


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from _AmeriSong: Poetry, Art, & Dialogs about Amerika_ by T Newfields
SUMMARY: An pictorial poem and conversation about how some American presidents 
        consider themselves above the law.
KEYWORDS: political satire, American arrogance, politics-as-a-sport, presidential hubris

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955)
Begun: 2007 in Tokyo, Japan / Finished: 2016 in Xīn-Táiběi, Taiwan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted

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