The Liberal's Burden

THE LIBERAL'S BURDEN
2009
(Obama and the World)

*With humble thanks to Rudyard Kipling's masterpiece "Take up the White Man's Burden."

Take up the liberal's burden-
Send forth the leftist screed
Go bind your sons to taxes
To serve your programs' need;
To wait in heavy harness
On Kos-crazed folk and wild-
Your new constituent voters
Half-devil but full child.

Take up the liberal's burden-
Ignore the other side,
Go hide the threat of terror
And burn American pride;
In 'prompted speech and town hall
A thousand times made plain,
To seek your re-election
And smother capitalism's gain.

Take up the liberal's burden-
The savage wars of change
Fill full the unions' coffers
The Founders' goal rearrange;
And when the end is nearest
The Marxism you have sought,
Watch fact and harsh reality
Bring all your "hope" to nought.

Take up the liberal's burden-
Ignore the rule of law
And pass your bloated budgets
While claiming to stop the thaw.
The rules ye shall have broken
The Constitution you shall tread
Go blow up the sickly deficits
And put the blame on Bush's head.

Take up the liberal's burden-
And reap your old reward:
The money dumped on ACORN
While frightening the bid'ness Boards.
The cry of aborted children
Who face the certain night,
And generations now in bondage
Because to tax, you have the right.

Take up the liberal's burden-
Ye dare not stoop to less-
But bow low to Saudi tyrants
And apologize to the rest.
But by every vote and order
By all ye leave or do
The silent American people
Shall weigh the truth against you.

Take up the liberal's burden-
Get on with changing names
No "terror" nor "enemy combatant"
Shall grace the newsprint's page;
Come now no need of manhood
Or all those warring years
Why everyone will love us now!

While Patriots will shed tears.