Last election, the Republicans famously went on and on about 9/11 and how only they could save America from the terrorists (despite the fact that 9/11 happened on their watch and the fact that they spent billions bombing the shit out of Afghanistan with little to show for it). I wonder whether the 'issue free zone' will extend to terrorism or will the power of nightmares again prove to be a gift in the quest to return the Republicans to the Whitehouse?
(With apologies to Clement Clarke Moore)
Tis September 11 and all through the house,
Not a creature is stirring, not even a mouse.
The banners are hung on the cave walls with care,
In the hope that bin Laden soon will be here.
The Children are nestled with guns and C4,
With visions of houris; some 30 or more!
Omar with his beard, and I with my daughter,
Have settled our souls for a year's worth of slaughter.
When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.
Away to the window, I flew like a flash,
Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.
The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow,
Gave the luster of mid-day to objects below.
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
A Toyota pick-up... The Master of Fear!
A beard of snow white and a new RPG
I knew in a moment that it must be he.
He spoke of McCain victory, vital to our plan,
No terrorist Kingpin, he is but a man.
"Now Sarah! Now Johnny! All Republican!
On Tax cuts! On Jesus! On Halliburton!
Destroy those Democrats! Push them to the wall!
If they realise I'm made up, our regimes will fall!"
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