{"id":776,"date":"2023-02-17T12:27:31","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T17:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/kleelerner\/?p=776"},"modified":"2023-02-17T14:50:51","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T19:50:51","slug":"presidential_couplets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kleelerner\/presidential_couplets\/","title":{"rendered":"Scattershooting with Presidential couplets…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Scattershooting with Presidential couplets…<\/div>\n
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Old uncle Joe became kinda slow,<\/div>\n
a puppet clown for the Leftist show<\/div>\n
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He’d be banned in Boston, where he would never do,<\/div>\n
because Trump was New York City through and through.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Though schooled at Harvard, Columbia, and Punahou,<\/div>\n
Obama\u2019s glow still suffered foreign policy woe<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Like “nu-ce-lear” fusion, Texas and W were linked,<\/div>\n
from war his Administration certainly did not shrink<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The Ivy League and Rhodes scholarship aside,<\/div>\n
Arkansas’ Clinton was Hillbilly Bill to the snide.<\/div>\n
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The elder Bush served his country with distinction and yet,<\/div>\n
whether he was more Houston or Kennebunkport was anyone’s bet.<\/div>\n
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That President Reagan played a part we all knew,<\/div>\n
yet it worked and the country was born anew<\/div>\n
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From Plains, Georgia came a good man named Jimmy Carter,<\/div>\n
He made a mess, and about Iran should have been smarter.<\/div>\n
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President Ford was a fill-in it’s true,<\/div>\n
But he was a stout Michigan man who fought the Swine Flu.<\/div>\n
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And what can one say about Tricky Dick and Watergate?<\/div>\n
Except that Nixon went to China before meeting his rat-fucking fate.<\/div>\n
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A barefoot boy from Texas, a champion of civil rights,<\/div>\n
President Johnson is best remembered for ill-considered fights.<\/div>\n
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Camelot and President Kennedy’s time were too short,<\/div>\n
as the hope from Hyannis Port did an assassin’s bullet abort.<\/div>\n
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About President Eisenhower, I don’t personally know,<\/div>\n
I was too young and so farther back I shall not go<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scattershooting with Presidential couplets… *** Old uncle Joe became kinda slow, a puppet clown for the Leftist show *** He’d be banned in Boston, where he would never do, because Trump was New York City through and through. *** Though schooled at Harvard, Columbia, and Punahou, Obama\u2019s glow still suffered foreign policy woe *** Like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9949,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[297806],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-taking-bearings-column"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kleelerner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kleelerner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kleelerner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kleelerner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9949"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kleelerner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kleelerner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":786,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kleelerner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions\/786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kleelerner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kleelerner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/kleelerner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}