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Topic started on 6-12-2005 @ 11:54 AM by ZeddicusZulZorander
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To President Bush by Anonymous.
Patient and steady with all he must bear,
Ready to meet every challenge with care,
Easy in manner, yet solid as steel,
Strong in his faith, refreshingly real.
Isn't afraid to propose what is bold,
Doesn't conform to the usual mould,
Eyes that have foresight, for hindsight won't do,
Never backs down when he sees what is true,
Tells it all straight, and means it all too.
Going forward and knowing he's right,
Even when doubted for why he would fight,
Over and over he makes his case clear,
Reaching to touch the ones who won't hear.
Growing in strength he won't be unnerved,
Ever assuring he'll stand by his word.
Wanting the world to join his firm stand,
Bracing for war, but praying for peace,
Using his power so evil will cease,
So much a leader and worthy of trust,
Here stands a man who will do what he must.
An interesting, strange, and conspiracy type poem seems to just "appear" in textbooks in Pakistan during a time when good publicity is needed for
the US-Pakistan relations. Funny how nobody seems to know how it got into the textbooks in the first place. Seems like some subtle mind-bending and
marketing going on.
I guess the Christians In Action are teaching in schools now.
Pakistan's government is to remove a poem from a school textbook after it emerged the first letters of each line spelt out "President George
W Bush".
The anonymous poem, called The Leader, appeared in a recent English-language course book for 16 year-olds.
Critics say it praises Mr Bush. Its rhyming couplets describe someone "solid as steel, strong in his faith".
Officials cannot explain how the poem entered the curriculum. Pupils are being told to ignore it.
The textbook is due to be reprinted next year.
news.bbc.co.uk...
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reply posted on 6-12-2005 @ 11:57 AM by deltaboy
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Then on Monday they said it may have been downloaded from the internet by a textbook writer, and later approved for publication by the
curriculum committee.
Sounds more like it was written by a conservative backer of Bush. As it says that it was downloaded from the internet. Go figure.
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reply posted on 6-12-2005 @ 12:28 PM by groingrinder
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George Bush needs a drastic makeover before he resembles the person the poem is about.
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reply posted on 6-12-2005 @ 12:45 PM by soficrow
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Excellent find and commentary ZZZ. 
Christians In Action, indeed.
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reply posted on 6-12-2005 @ 01:10 PM by dgtempe
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Oh brother! How about somebody here writes the music to accompany this one?
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reply posted on 6-12-2005 @ 01:16 PM by Dr Love
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I could have read that poem a thousand times and never figured out that if you take the first letter from each line and put them together it spells
"George W Bush". How does somebody spot that?
Besides that, knowing it was about Dubya, if I were to read that poem a thousand times I would barf all over myself.
Peace 
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reply posted on 6-12-2005 @ 02:05 PM by whaaa
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This seems like the work of the public relations firm hired by the pentagon to write favorable "news" to place in Iraqi newspapers.
Or maybe the Pakistani officials really like the foreign aid they receive so...
OK dgtempe Iv'e started the music accompanyment; should it be the blues or zippity do dah?
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reply posted on 6-12-2005 @ 02:25 PM by djohnsto77
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Wow, it's both beautiful and inspiring!
* prints it out, hangs it on wall *
Thanks! 
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reply posted on 6-12-2005 @ 02:36 PM by dgtempe
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Originally posted by whaaa
This seems like the work of the public relations firm hired by the pentagon to write favorable "news" to place in Iraqi newspapers.
Or maybe the Pakistani officials really like the foreign aid they receive so...
OK dgtempe Iv'e started the music accompanyment; should it be the blues or zippity do dah?
I think the blues would be great...It would make
one heck of a podcast!
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reply posted on 6-12-2005 @ 10:08 PM by gimmefootball400
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I believe the blues would go great with that poem. Somebody fire up some Coltrane!
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reply posted on 6-12-2005 @ 10:12 PM by GradyPhilpott
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I like it. It is both brilliant and touching. The world will long remember GW Bush as being one of the greatest Presidents. When all his easily
lampooned frailties have been forgotten, it is his fortitude that will live. We'll see how long the world remembers his detractors.
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reply posted on 6-12-2005 @ 10:15 PM by dgtempe
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Grady, such greatness will be rewarded in the afterlife without a doubt
Hang on for the song, it should make a grown man weep.
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reply posted on 6-12-2005 @ 10:19 PM by SpartanKingLeonidas
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Oh dude, that was funny. The Christians In Action, huh? Yeah, I think they're little school teachers, they just have a Swiss
Army knife & a suicide pill in their pockets, instead of an apple from Johnny the teachers pet.
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reply posted on 6-12-2005 @ 10:24 PM by SpartanKingLeonidas
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Oh My God, I just read the rest of the posts on this one, & I can't stop laughing, the tears won't stop either from laughing so hard.
Yeah, I think if I read that a 1,000 times, I'd puke too.
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reply posted on 6-12-2005 @ 10:49 PM by GradyPhilpott
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It is not every man who has the courage to stand up against evil. I can only say that I shudder to think what our nation would be like today if the
likes of Al Gore, Howard Dean or John Kerry had been the President on 9/11. I think the hysterical and the faint of heart will never understand true
greatness. A true genius is rarely reconized in his own time.
"When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." --Jonathan Swift
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reply posted on 6-12-2005 @ 11:00 PM by spacedoubt
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Originally posted by djohnsto77
Wow, it's both beautiful and inspiring!
Patient and steady with all he must bear,
Ready to meet every challenge with care,
Easy in manner, yet solid as steel,
Strong in his faith, refreshingly real.
Isn't afraid to propose what is bold,
Doesn't conform to the usual mould,
Eyes that have foresight, for hindsight won't do,
Never backs down when he sees what is true,
Tells it all straight, and means it all too.
Going forward and knowing he's right,
Even when doubted for why he would fight,
Over and over he makes his case clear,
Reaching to touch the ones who won't hear.
Growing in strength he won't be unnerved,
Ever assuring he'll stand by his word.
Wanting the world to join his firm stand,
Bracing for war, but praying for peace,
Using his power so evil will cease,
So much a leader and worthy of trust,
Here stands a man who will do what he must.
Thanks!
DJ, here it is with the MAN himself..LOL
I think I'll make some calendars for everyone..
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reply posted on 6-12-2005 @ 11:03 PM by UnterMir
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omg...
i just threw up in my mouth a little.
-UnterMir
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reply posted on 6-12-2005 @ 11:18 PM by djohnsto77
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Originally posted by spacedoubt
DJ, here it is with the MAN himself..LOL
I think I'll make some calendars for everyone..
Big idea:
T-Shirt!!!!
I have some of those iron-on t-shirt papers. I think I'll make one with Bush's pic on the front and this lovely poem on the back. I'm sure it will
make me very popular here on the upper west side.
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reply posted on 6-12-2005 @ 11:23 PM by spacedoubt
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Excellent idea DJ..
umm. does Fruit of the loom make anything in Kevlar?
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reply posted on 6-12-2005 @ 11:28 PM by whaaa
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Please dj don't wear that t-shirt in public on the upper west side.
Just show some cajones and go down to the village and show us what you're made of.
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