[Nicholas Stone]

Well, if my word's worth anything, I liked it and can sympathise with the sentiment, perhaps more because of siding firmly with Republican policies than because of actual disdain for Obama.

Anyway, well done!

[Paul Lake]

For those who find the notion that Obama is not violating the constitution, here is more evidence of his use of fiat to attain his goal while ignoring the constitution. The constitution demands that two thirds of the senate must approve treaties with other nations. Here’s Obama’s latest offense against the constitution, which is described by both the NYT and Newsmax, among other news outlets. And soon he will be abrogating our laws on immigration, according to numerous sources. My epigram is on the mark.


http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/agr.../26/id/591100/


http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/27/us...eaty.html?_r=0

[R. Nemo Hill]

Rather he should twiddle his thumbs while the world ends due to ignorance and greed, eh? No doubt if he were a Republican you would be lauding a leader who knows how to lead.

Your epigraph is lame.

Nemo

[Max Goodman]

If it angers you for presidents to work on treaties without congressional approval, your fair and balanced muse must have inspired multiple epigrams about President Bush's treaties:

The president's agreement with Iraq bypasses Congress. Again.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_a..._illusion.html

[Don Jones]

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[Roger Slater]

Paul, can you please post the epigram that you wrote criticizing President Bush for unilaterally waiving the penalties for people who signed up late for Medicare Part D, thus failing to faithfully execute the law that he himself pushed through Congress over Democratic opposition? I think I missed that one. (I also missed the Democrats' lawsuit and impeachment talk when it happened).

[Allen Tice]

Don, all politics aside, your effort has thuddingly bad rhymes, is needlessly ugly, pointless in its anality, and apart from line two, barely makes sense. Line two defies comprehension almost completely. It does you zero credit. Politics aside, it's the really, really bad art : soundwise; and the incoherence, that makes me say, So long, Adieu, and Ta-Ta.

[Don Jones]

mmmmmmmmmmm

[Michael Cantor]

Don - I'm 150% in your camp politically - and the poem stinks. It's silly, labored and juvenile. And by the way - I believe Allen is more or less with you politically as well. But that doesn't make a forced poem better - the fact is that the poem is so bad it hurts the cause rather than helps.

[Nicholas Stone]

I don't want to get too mixed up in this, but "primus" (pr. 'Pree-mus' or 'Pry-mus') and "anus" (pr. 'Ay-nus' [or, I think wrongly, 'Ann-us']) don't rhyme in any Latin I've ever learned. And I doubt I'm in any of your camps politically, not that that's of any significance, so I suppose you can tell politics is aside.