Author's Statement

This 2nd term... what a grind!

Despite the fact that so much is happenning I'm going numb. Is it sensory overload or fatigue or denial or have I succumbed to the siren song of government propaganda?

I will not relent. The second term marches on. Let the captives rejoice!

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Table of Contents

1. First Hunnerd Days
2. The Test
3. The Scandal of N. Ron
4. Let's Roll!
5. Back at The Ranch...
6. 2002--A Very Good Year
7. 2003
8. Road To Baghdad
9. Mission Accomplished
10. Loosening up
11. Kalifornia
12. Say Ahhhh....
13. Political Season
14. Early Returns
15. Adbul Grub
16. The Debates
17. 'Lection Day
18. Political Capital
19. Autopilot
20. Summer of Flood

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The Ballad of The Bush Leagues, Chapter 17

'lection Day

Election Day is here!
Time to crack open a beer and
Get in line with my fellow voters
I see once every four years

How you doin', Bob?
You really votin for that slob?

[VOTER BOB]

"I'm not talkin' just keep on walkin'
I don't want to lose my job!"

Look, there's Peggy Sue!
Are you voting Red or Blue?

[VOTER PEGGY SUE]

"I ain't tellin–just drink your beer
You know it's illegal to electioneer!"

I sense a climate of fear,
Perhaps intimidation.
Prevailing wisdom deems it best to
Conceal affiliation

With a team too red or blue
As one's contemporaries might object unto–
I'll just vote and be on my way;
The TV will tell me what the people have to say...

[TV BROADCASTER]

"The early leader is Kerry
But the big states are yet to be counted
Plenty of votes remain up for grabs
A late-inning charge could be mounted."

That's all they've got? I thought this was digital–
All these new machines…
I miss the weather lady!
Those pants she wears drive me crazy.

But she's not part of the coverage
So I guess i'll have another beverage
While the map fills up with red...
Is Dubya really ahead?

[3 DIFFERENT TV BROADCASTERS]

"President Bush has taken the lead."
"An impressive sweep of the South indeed!"
"We've just lost our Ohio feed
Please tune in tomorrow!"

Sleep won't come easy
With an answer pending
As to whether our story has a
One-term ending

Or whether it continue,
Leaving me in arrears
To my pad and paper for
Another four years—

A debt I'll proudly pay
If indeed the people decide today,

[THE PEOPLE]

"We want our George just Like Valley Forge
Where he chopped down that tree one day!"