Obama

[whyat least3]

Negative poem about him

Obama is black on the outside
but is white on the inside
he thinks he knows what is best for the U.S.
but look at all the mess
people had great belief
but wonder when is there going to be relief
they thought of him as the best president
but he is nothing but as regular resident
when people finally realized he wasn't the one
but too late the damage was already done
sadly he had won
but people still cheer on
we can't wait til his final day
when he finally goes away
we will have a great celebration
because of the next inauguration
hopefully the next president will heal the nation
everyone is fed up and tired of this awful devastation

[DarkerLine]

I hate the widespread belief that poems don't have to be capitalized or punctuated. Also, "outside" and "inside" don't rhyme.

[benryves]

[DarkerLine]

Well, not in the classical way, at least. The stressed syllables are "out" and "in", respectively, which don't rhyme. Even considered as a half-rhyme, it's poor since the origin of the "side" syllables is the same: it's like rhyming a word with itself.

[Weregoose]

Critics are wiseguys—
they think they know the way, but
can they drive the car?

A sculpture is made!
Sadly, there will always be
someone to trash it

Good versus evil:
easy to see in ourselves
which one will prevail

[whyat least3]

Fine complain about that technical rhyme, here is another about the government.

America is suppose to be the melting pot
but all I see is a racist plot
The government tries to do whatever they can
so they decide to invade Pakistan
They said they were there to give a helping hand
but all they wanted to do was to dig oil in their sand
People come home from work tired and soar
then get frustrated from the money wasted on the war
As the economy makes people poorer and poorer
Now they decide to blame everybody south of the border
They don't care where their from, they assume their from Mexico
Even though it is the fault of the C.E.O's
In the end, the world will die in a nuclear holocaust because of the U.S.
The world will join sides and fight for this mess
The radiation and the money will be the only things to go green
Now the red blood from everybody is left to be seen
No body knows when this plan is to be due
Sadly what I say is true

[Galandros]

Why share negative poems?

I don't get it. :S

[whyat least3]

why not, who is to say poems are suppose to be joyful and happy, many aren't that way.

[Weregoose]

When someone's already convinced themselves that somebody else is a terrorist, there's no convincing them otherwise. This was passed to me a short while ago:

[Newbie]

[DarkerLine]

[Weregoose]

[Newbie]

[Galandros]

[whyat least3]

Another hypocrite, you do release you just wrote down another complain.

[theti86rules]

Generally, I found that when people disagrees with someone's opinion or behaviour, they tend to criticize them on something else. If someone insults someone else, they will just get told to fix their grammar or spell. I think they do it to not start an argument on the initial offending post. In this case I think people found the poem offensive and provocative (since generally, when someone hates Obama it's because he's black but they don't want to admit it so they find another thing to bash him on), but they didn't want to respond with their disagreement in fear of triggering an argument, altough the poem itself *could* have triggered one.

Personally I won't criticise on the form, because I hate writing poems myself. I disagree with the content, though, because I think our president did a far better job than Bush did so far. Obama cannot be everywhere at once. He got elected in the middle of an economic crisis, nuclear threats and wars. Of course, this is subject to opinions. In politics, though, no matter how good a president would be, people would always find something to criticise them on.

Anyway I'm not too much active here (I mostly lurked on Revsoft and Omnimaga) but am I the only one to notice an increase in hostile members and hostility in general on United-TI? This is not good for the TI community I think, because it is very small

[DigiTan]

There once was a man from Nantucket...aw screw it, I'm not in the mood. :D

I'm more disappointed with the American public for being so easily duped by the media. So far Obama's plans have only been foundationed on borrowing endless money streams and skyrocketing the national debt while the dollar craters. What people my age continually fail to "get" is that Washington is in deficit spending, ie: it has NO money! They can only create the illusion of wealth (TARP & TARP2, health care reforms) by borrowing credit at interest from of the central bank. Yet, anyone glued to the TV will get the impression that Obama is "giving us money" as someone on youtube once put it.

I do think he deserved to win the election however. Not because of race or his policies, but because the GOP became so drunk and stupid with power, it "needed" to feel a sobering loss.

That's enough negativity. On a positive spin, I have to commend his team on their diplomacy so far with the Russians and the EU. So far anyway. With all the missiles that seem to be flying this week, we need all the diplomacy we can get. But I won't put any stock in the man until after he gets us out of the middle east

[Galandros]

Well, America has no "real" money since many years ago...
And not all presidents cared enough to actually solve that.
That situation shouldn't be permanent. Who is willing to have a bank account always in negative?

Anyway, everything can be criticized. And to avoid nasty problems, always attack what the person is saying, not the person.
I hate when people at the first critic (when I critic is for their won sake and most certainly I am a right), they insult right away.
I don't answer to insults because they don't make any sense to me. And I don't know either to reply to insult. So it kind of works for them but they continue the same stupids ever or worst.

I can start a whole rant only because of that kind of people...

[Newbie]

[TI-newb]

Hey! Newbie. i like ur name =D XDDDDDDDDDDDDDD