Author: lenbilen

Retired engineer, graduated from Chalmers Technical University a long time ago with a degree in Technical Physics. Career in Aerospace, Analytical Chemistry, computer chip manufacturing and finally adjunct faculty at Pennsylvania State University, taught just one course in Computer Engineering, the Capstone Course.

Obama,: the misunderstood. A Limerick.

NEW YORK (CBS) — After suffering a “shellacking” in the midterm elections, President Obama acknowledges what many have seen as his chief weakness – failing to sell the importance of several legislative milestones to the American people. “I think that’s a fair argument. I think that, over the course of two years we were so busy and so focused on getting a bunch of stuff done that, we stopped paying attention to the fact that leadership isn’t just legislation. That it’s a matter of persuading people. And giving them confidence and bringing them together. And setting a tone,” Mr. Obama told 60 Minutes’ Steve Kroft in an exclusive interview set to air Sunday. “Making an argument that people can understand,” Mr. Obama continued, “I think that we haven’t always been successful at that. And I take personal responsibility for that. And it’s something that I’ve got to examine carefully … as I go forward.”

Commander in Chief: “People don’t understand.

I’m trying to do what is best for our land.

I blame and complain

and I fail to explain:

Through the Mexican border comes much contraband.”

Obama to India for 200 million a day. A Limerick.

Proverbs 11:29 (King James Version) He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.

What was President Barack Obama doing after his Democrat Party got a shellacking on Election Day? He got out of the country! Nov 5 2010 Obama left for India on a ten-day tour ending in South Korea, costing us taxpayers some $200 Million dollars a day! Obama was bringing an entourage of 3,000 people with him. Obama’s trip to India  included a visit to Taj Mahal. A total of 40 jetliners hauled Obama, family, friends and staff. They rented the entire Taj Mahal Palace & Tower Hotel, all 570 rooms! He was even bringing his teleprompters with him!

This calls for a Limerick!

Obama skipped town, went away down to India

to teach those poor folks how to use multimedia.

Teleprompters in tow

prevents gaffes in a row.

With wasting like this we’ll inherit the wind – yeah.

Ode to Nancy Pelosi. A song, Limerick style.

Since Nancy Pelosi took over the gavel

Was our economy quick to unravel.

She is more than bad,

The worst that we had.

We finally stopped contemplating our navel.

 

Since Nancy Pelosi took over as speaker

Our job situation has gotten much weaker

 All jobs that are lost

Since she got the post

And as for advise, shame to all who still seek her.

 

For Nancy Pelosi, Majority Leader

The Chinese exploiters a life-line did feed her

Our debt load increased

Four trillions at least

 We all must this fall go and vote to unseat her.

 

For Nancy Pelosi, known Tea Party hater

 Gets scared when the grandmothers start to berate her

It does go to show

That she doesn’t know

 The Tea Party is one great hate dissipater.

One more versse has been added:

One more verse to “Ode to Nancy Pelosi”

Fullsized image

When Nancy Pelosi again became speaker,

the ravage of time showed it made her much weaker

and how nervous she looked

for her goose is soon cooked.

The Democrats future is looking much bleaker.

 

Obama and Sarah Palin on the same bus. A Limerick.

Our “post-racial” and “post-partisan”  president insists that Republicans sit in the back of the bus: “We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.” The Anointed One apparently went off teleprompter for a few unguarded moments.

The Limerick:

Republicans: Ride in the back of the bus.

So that’s how Obama would like to treat us.

But Sarah, she sparks,

She’s our Rosa Parks.

She’ll take over the bus and not cause any fuss.

Harry Reid and the Tea Party Limerick.

When members of the Tea Party say that pork is federal money wasted to create jobs, then they know little about the realities of what goes on in Washington, Sen. Harry Reid, (D-Nev.) told CNBC Oct 22 2010.

“Whoever suggests that knows nothing about government, zero,” said Reid.

Reid, the Senate majority leader, who is in a tight race against GOP challenger Sharon Angle—a Tea Party favorite—was taking direct aim at the conservative group, which favors a limited role of government.

Between campaign stops in Nevada, Reid told CNBC that billions of dollars were set aside in the economic recovery bill to promote job growth. In Nevada alone, he said, that includes $1.8 billion for construction jobs in renewable energy and $3 billion in bonds to be sold that puts 2,000 people to work. “I’m sorry the economy is as bad as it is. I didn’t cause this economy to go down. I have worked hard to create jobs in Nevada,” Reid went on to say. “I’ve worked hard to save the education system in Nevada, bringing in $400 million to higher education and about $400 million to K through 12.” “They [the Republicans] are going to find—those people who have gone along with that Tea Party stuff—they’re going to find that it’s not their father’s Republican Party,” he said. And post-midterms, Reid had this prediction: “I don’t think you’ll find as many Tea Party members as you might think.” The Limerick:

“The Tea Party knows not how government works”.

We all get along, though we have our quirks.

As long as there’s pork

out which we can fork,

we squander our wealth like a bunch of berserks.

Harry Reid and the worldwide depression Limerick.

 

Oct 2010, Fox News: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is having a heck of a time trying to get re-elected, in part, he says, because people don’t want to know that he prevented a worldwide depression. The Nevada Democrat, whose poll numbers are see-sawing against rival Republican Senate nominee Sharron Angle, told MSNBC’s Ed Schultz on Thursday night that voters in his state don’t feel reassured when Reid tells them of his global achievement because they’ve fallen so far down the economic food chain. “We were at the top and we’ve fallen very hard. So people have been hurting, and I understand that, and it doesn’t give them comfort or solace for me to tell them, you know, but for me we’d be in a worldwide depression. They want to know what I’ve done for them, and that’s why it’s important for me, any chance I get, to say that my number one job is to create jobs,” Reid said, blasting Angle for saying it’s not the role of government to create jobs.

The Limerick:

“But for me we would be in a worldwide depression”

said Harry the humble. He gave the impression

his job: Create jobs

for ungrateful slobs.

 And “that woman” against him has recall repression.

Christine O’Donnell and Chris Coons debate. A Limerick.

The Delaware candidates for senate had an interesting debate in 2010. Delaware Republican Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell asked the question:  “Where in the Constitution is the separation of church and state?” Democratic candidate Chris Coons was quick to tell O’Donnell that religion and government are kept separate by the First Amendment.

Later in the debate, O’Donnell challenged Coons to name the five freedoms of the First Amendment. He came up four freedoms short.

The five freedoms in the first amendment are: Freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press and the rights of petition and assembly.

The exact text of the first amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

The Limerick:

Amendment, the first: We all know, of a sort.

Chris Coons, when she asked, came up four freedoms short.

O’Donnell did know

All five, and did show:

“Church and State” is not mentioned; she is a good sport.