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At the beginning of this video, 92 year old Retired North Dakota District Court Trial Judge and World War II veteran, Ralph Maxwell introduces himself. He has been been married for 65 years, has 6 children (so far), and eleven grandchildren. Judge Maxwell admits that he will be voting for President Obama, as he did four years ago, because "he represents my political philosophy more than the other contestant does; candidate I should say."
WHEREFORE ART THOU, MITT ROMNEY?
By Ralph Maxwell
O, Romney-O, Romney-O, Wherefore art thou, Mitt Romney?
You flip-flop here, you flip-flop there,
You flip-flop almost ev'rywhere.
You ballyhoo what you're gonna do
And then you pull a switcheroo;
You now malign what you found fine;
Seems like you've got a jellyfish spine.
Obamacare, by you begun,
Now you'd trash it on day one.
Gun control you did extol,
But now you're preaching decontrol.
O, Romney-O, Romney-O, Wherefore art thou, Mitt Romney?
We've got no clue what you will do
Or what new view you'll pander to.
Time was you championed women's choice,
But you no longer heed their voice;
On gay rights, too, guess you withdrew
Support they once enjoyed from you.
Global warming, EPA,
Immigration, minimum pay,
Roe V. Wade, also fair trade,
All joined your flip-flop cavalcade.
O, Romney-O, Romney-O Wherefore art thou, Mitt Romney?
So many things that you were for
You've turned against and slammed the door.
Stimulus and cap and trade,
Education, foreign aid,
Campaign reform, tarp rescues, too,
All victims of your switcheroo.
You take your stand on shifting sand,
We never know where you will land;
You vacillate, you fabricate,
A wishy-washy candidate.
O, Romney-O, Romney-O, Wherefore art thou Mitt Romney?
As gov'nor you let taxes rise,
Now ev'ry tax you demonize.
You say regardless of the facts
You'd take an axe to the millionaire's tax;
You'd feed the greed of the richest few
The poor and middle class you'd screw.
Your tax returns you hide from view
What evil lurks there we've no clue;
If they're not bad why hesitate?
Is it that they incriminate?
O, Romney-O, Romney-O, Wherefore art thou Mitt Romney?
At Bain you plundered with a flair
And walked away a zillionaire.
You shipped off-shore, good jobs galore
To China, India, Singapore;
A job creator you are not.
And to boast you are is tommyrot.
As a total fraud, Mitt's got no peer;
What we must do is crystal clear:
Let's give Obama four more years!
Yes, it's Obama four more years!
FOUR MORE YEARS!
FOUR MORE YEARS!
FOUR MORE YEARS!
BRAVO!!! K&R!!!
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/18/1121614/-Hilarious-poem-about-Mitt-Romney-by-92-Year-Old-Retired-ND-Judge-WWII-Vet-needs-to-go-viral
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Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)The famous quote from Romeo & Juliet is Juliet asking "why do you have to be a Montague, one of my family's sworn enemies?" and not "where are you?"
MrSlayer
(22,143 posts)Was going to say the same thing.
SunsetDreams
(8,571 posts)haele
(12,681 posts)Most people who don't know the OED or much of Shakespere other than what they hear on TV skits and cartoons will more than likely take the phrase for a rhetorical "where are you", referring to both location or a positional posture in question.
I've heard people use the phrase colloquially in both contexts over the years far more than I've heard them use it per the OED definition.
(Heck, in English 105 last year, one of the students used that term as the latter in one of the read-aloud essays, and no one corrected him - including me, sorry to say...)
Haele
muriel_volestrangler
(101,368 posts)If "where?" is answered by "there", then "wherefore?" should be answered by "therefore" - not "because".
progressivebydesign
(19,458 posts)I thought the entire thing was unbelievably clever.
zeemike
(18,998 posts)To say.
Why are tho Mitt Romney?....with the same consternation that Juliet said it about Romeo?....it was rhetorical for her and why not him?
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)Remember the contestants on the old Gong Show?
madashelltoo
(1,701 posts)I applaud , I shout , I bow. Beautifully written and delivered. God bless you.
Cha
(297,723 posts)SunsetDreams! This Vet has got mitt down!
SunsetDreams
(8,571 posts)We should share this everywhere, it needs to be seen. I love it!
lumpy
(13,704 posts)He represents the best in this country. He reminds me of my Father who, incidentely, was in Dutch Harbor during WW2 also. (As he was too old for military service he was there doing construction work for the military.) Love his poem, well done. Thanks so much.
SunsetDreams
(8,571 posts)represent the best in this country. Thank you for your Father's service, even though he was not able to serve, he did what he could do to help.
BeHereNow
(17,162 posts)Brilliant...
Hope the Obama Campaign invites this man to hang with President Obama.
BHN
progressivebydesign
(19,458 posts)I also hope that Mr. Maxwell gets an invite or special something from the President's campaign. He is just too much!
graywarrior
(59,440 posts)riverbendviewgal
(4,254 posts)his words are so Visual......I wonder if some big name music star would put this to music and sing it.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)Brafriggingo!
Awesome!
SunsetDreams
(8,571 posts)JBoy
(8,021 posts)ballyhoo
cavalcade
tommyrot
You don't see those enough anymore!
SunsetDreams
(8,571 posts)of those words and they fit perfectly.
AzDar
(14,023 posts)Martin Eden
(12,875 posts)... and that's no tommyrot