The Ballad of Barack and Joe
By Old Grumpy Guy on November 3, 2008 at 8:30 AM in Barack Obama, Current Affairs, Joe Biden, Qualifications, Sarah Palin
I don’t really enjoy attacking Joe Biden. He seems so vulnerable I feel it is almost like attacking a defenseless kitten with a sledgehammer. But since the Obama-bots have been so ungentlemanly to Sara Palin, and since he is lending his support to a rampant manipulator with no real substance or experience, I have decided that he is fair game (particularly as he seems to have been getting an easy ride from the media compared to Sarah Palin). I have two new videos that spotlight Biden. One is entitled “Joe Biden gets sand kicked in his face” (YouTube) and the latest (which quite a few people have said is my best video to date) is entitled “The Ballad of Barack and Joe” (above).
The latter video consists of a reading of a poem I wrote, inspired by the A.A. Milne poem “Disobedience”. It reads as follows: (And by the way, Biden’s middle name really is Robinette)
THE BALLAD OF BARACK AND JOE
by OldGrumpyGuy
(adapted from A.A.Milne’s poem “Disobedience”)
(permission given to reproduce in any public media)
Joseph Robinette Biden, otherwise known as Joe was famous for saying the wrong things
and being a little bit slow
It was a surprise then when Joe was elected to run as Obama’s VP
Even though, as wise people know, his emotional age is three.
Joseph Robinette Biden said to Obama, said he:
“It should be quite fun; I can get the job done, and be home in time for tea.”
But Joseph Robinette Biden was being a little naive
And had no inkling whatever of what Barack had up his sleeve
For how could slow Joe be expected to know that Obama had cunningly planned
to pick someone like Joe as his fall guy for the time when things got out of hand
For it wouldn’t be long before things would go wrong
While Obama was playing his game
For his promises lacked any substance and the horse he was riding was lame
So when the web of illusion unraveled, it was Joe who would shoulder the blame
For Joseph Robinette Biden was considerably long in the tooth
and all his experience should have showed him that Obama wasn’t telling the truth
But slow Joe, like a great many others, was too trusting, too easily swayed
by the conjurer’s bag of illusions and the sweet-sounding statements he made
Like the tale of the Emperor’s clothing, Obama was utterly bare
Quite devoid of any true knowledge. while seeming to show so much care
For this man was a very smooth talker, and all the folk longed to believe
all the swell sounding things that he promised
But he lied, or was he simply naive?
Whatever the reason, it’s tragic how so many folk were entranced
by the great manipulator’s illusions, and how so many joined in the dance
A dance that had only one outcome: Disappointment and heartache and ruin
For that is the price all must forfeit for dancing to the mad piper’s tune
by Ronald Scott
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