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• Sunday, November 30, 2008 09:01 AM

  American Intelligence

  What fool could not see

  What New Leader has got

  Intelligence

  He’s Smart, so smart

  There can be no doubt

  And if there was any

  We could reason it out

  Like a homework assignment

  For a ninth-grade class:

  Get online and research some stuff

  War on Terror, War on Drugs,

  How the common good fares

  When free-market thugs

  Get the run of the place.

  Answer - It’s spawned even more hatred: A+, no duh

  Answer - Doesn’t decrease addiction: A+ again

  Conclude by assessing how New Leader scores

  On whether or not to continue these wars

  That backfire.

  And rate his appointments to fix all the pain

  That comes down on all when greed and vice reign.

  That’s easy – with sharp judgment like his

  We’ll try it again! With the same guys in charge

  His equally intelligent friends,

  The masterminds of clusterfuck

  Intelligence

  Now someone naïve might use terms more rude

  To describe New Leader’s apparent IQ:

  “Dim bulb”, “slow”, “timid” maybe ”clueless”

  How Dare You! Say “Sorry”! This cannot be.

  Straight talk must not replace civility!

  You simply don’t see how we measure IQ:

  By Ivy League diction and nice grammar too

  (If logic, reflection and thought were the measures,

  we might not be stuck with repeating the failures.)

  Smooth diction should prove it but if not for you

  We’ll utter the magical sounds to astound:

  “Harvard”, “educated”, “intellectual”

  and if those powerful symbols don’t prove it

  Check out his advanced degree

  From a Top American University

  Just like the degrees conferred on our other Leaders

  American Brain Trust

  Leading the way

  Leaders conferred with American Intelligence

  Who can doubt it?

  Time for a change?

  Time to Get Smart? That’s a movie har, har.

  Entertainment

  Max is so silly and gets no respect

  Spending his time getting inside the heads

  Of the Others

  He WANTS TO KNOW what they fear, who they are,

  How to approach them, how to relate

  Before Old Brain attacks and then it’s too late

  Who we are, what we fear

  Silly?

  bet your life

  —J.C. Miller Read J.C. Miller's other letters
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