Bush & Company

The untouchable Dick Cheney (along with his constant companion, the Halliburton company) enjoys, it seems, perpetual immunity from penalty for his misdeeds, both past and continuing.
What irony, if a foreign country, like Spain or Nigeria, causes his downfall. . .If only. . .

No matter what he does or did,
It makes no difference, God forbid
The former veep be put upon,
So rather, he goes blithely on.

Just how presumptuous they are
Determines how impune they are.

Tea Partier Sarah Palin (clubber of fish and murderess of moose) has a knack for self-promotion, but lacks other assets like regard for the truth and the character that her talents would enhance. Her Republican opponents for the 2012 presidential nomination, all linked to the Tea Party movement (so far, Romney, Huckabee, Gingrich and Pawlenty) lack both her baggage, which she turns to her advantage, and her own packaged brand of female freshness and allure.

Yes, Sarah is one of a kind,
Another pol who pays no mind
To what is false and what is fact,
But free style is part of her act,

Against whom so few can contest;
Quite simply, she's the very best
And has the necessary props
For starring in her photo ops,

What other hopefuls don't possess;
The most they have is pitifully less.
They may recall that she's been known
Even her mentor to betray;

You're in the Sarah Palin zone---
Look out, boys, don't get in her way. . .

Never satisfactorily resolved one way or the other, it remains in limbo whether or not Senator John McCain was actually eligible for the US presidency, having been born in the Panama Canal Zone, where his father, a US naval officer, was stationed. At any rate, Senator McCain chose to run.

Earlier would-be presidents George Romney and Barry Goldwater, as well as 21st president Chester A. Arthur, had found themselves in the same circumstance.

The Birthplace of President Obama in 1961, however, questioned over and over, has been proven incontestably to be Honolulu. Hawaii, a US territory since July 7, 1898,
was created a state on August 21, 1959.

The mission of the Right is plain---
They've vowed, though it may be in vain,
Against the president to preach,
Investigate and then impeach.

What is it that they have in mind?
What do they expect to find?
That he's a Socialist out to throw
Cold water on our status quo?

That he's a heathen Muslim man,
Emerged from some exotic clan?
That he's an alien from the wild,
Not born a real American child?

Exactly what would they have done
If Senator McCain had won?
We know that they would never scorn
That president, though Panama born!