Palin Pearls:
Political Haikus 2008-2011
By The Honorable Neil Glick
Palin Pearls: Political Haikus 2008-2011
Copyright 2012 Neil Glick
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Dear Reader,
Thank you for buying this book! In 2003 & 2004, I wrote “BUSH HAIKUS: Simple Poems for a Simple Presidency.” Over the past 20 years, all politics are about sound bytes. Rarely do you see anything substantial come out of any politician’s mouth. No one has major plans to help the American people. No party has a strategy to help the average American. It seems our political system is all about corporate and special interests and keeping the average American behind a smoke screen with what the real problems are.
In 2008 we saw the birth of the Tea Party, popular support of Sarah Palin, the election of the first man of color to The Presidency. It has been amazing. We also saw incredible political failures, like an all Democratic House, Senate and White House, taking more than one year to pass substantive health insurance reform. To me that is embarrassing. In 2011, we saw the birth of the 99%/Occupy movement and the fall of many tyrannical dictators around the world.
In this spirit, I wrote about 50 more political haikus for the period from 2008-2011. Covering everything that caught my fancy. I especially enjoyed writing the ones about Sarah Palin’s education.
I long for the day when real substantive debate comes back to our political process. I long to see our elected officials put the American people FIRST and not write laws to only help corporate interests. I long to see a Government that is here to serve the people that elect them.
If people are not vocal and active, our government will continue to ignore it’s constituency, and pander to the money to keep them in power.
Our political and economic system is up to every single American.
If you are happy with what you see in our process today, then do nothing.
If you want change, get involved and make a difference. Run for office, read in depth about issues, and work to get candidates who put people first elected.
Neil Glick
A six term elected official in the Government of the District of Columbia
Washington, DC
January 2012
I wrote this book for a better and brighter future for all of America and the World.
I lovingly dedicate this book to JLA & MJA
Inauguration Day
January 20, 2009
Bush Cheney leaving.
It’s change we can believe in.
Hope in The White House.
Sarah Palin and Her Brood
Bristol says having
kid early is tough. Sarah
forgot to tell her.
So much for Sarah’s support of abstinence only education.
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Knocks up Sarah’s girl
Levi Johnston in Playgirl
Really going rogue.
“Going Rogue” Sarah Palin’s memoir.
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Sarah’s Half a Term as Alaska Governor
She quits two years in
Not even a single term
Quitters never win.
Sarah Palin won’t
Serve a governors full term
But sells out for cash.
She served a whopping two and a half years of a 4 year term as Governor of Alaska! This makes her the third shortest serving Governor of the State of Alaska.
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Murder in AZ
Sarah’s target shot and hurt
Nation’s sad – how long?
Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Gifford was “targeted” on a website by Sarah Palin’s political action committee. The graphic had a picture of a gun site over Gifford’s district on a US map. On January 8, 2011, Giffords was shot in an apparent assassination attempt at a meeting with constituents. The attempt killed six people and wounded 14 others. The six that died were:
Christina-Taylor Green
Dorothy "Dot" Morris
The Honorable John Roll
Phyllis Schneck
Dorwan Stoddard
Gabriel "Gabe" Zimmerman