Bush & Company

What could be more ludicrous than the foes of President Obama casting him again as a failure when again the facts bear out the opposite?

The current hysteria is not about "religious freedom," as both his political opponents and Catholic bishops assert. These are fraudulent words, still used, even though the president has offered a very acceptable compromise to the outdated controversy over birth control. Recalcitrant Catholic institutions, while providing contraceptive services covering total women's health, would not be obliged to act against their principles by paying for them; insurance companies would, a far cry from the expense of abortion, pregnancy and delivery.

Yet Senator Roy Blunt (R-MO) is now introducing a bill that would not only deny all health services, in any given circumstance, to women, but violate one of our basic tenets---separation of church and state.

Extreme Rightists are using the lives and well-being of women to try and topple President Obama and distract attention from the real issue of the day---jobs---because they have no viable solution themselves.

What better way can we attest
To what The One we have's the best
Than pointing out his leadership
Provides much more to us than lip

And still his foes seek to distract
With arguments quite inexact---
The clear intent that we forget
Our most important issue yet--

Their vapid words are just a way
To try and make it go away.