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By Khaidji - Aug 27th, 2009 at 9:56 am EDT

The following Acrostic Poem, though fictional, is base on the lost of a close friend and having the chance to say Thank You. Too often we lose love ones and do not have the opportunity to have those last words with then. Senator Ted Kennedy held on to life long enough to give us all the opportunity to say good-bye, unlike his other brothers whose deaths came so tragically. President Barack Obama said we were given this amazing man, who because of his accomplishments, can easily be considered the most critical person to our progress in immigration, civil rights, education, health and so much more. His most recent pursuit was for Universal Health care and for this he passed the proverbial torch

The Time To Say Thank You

The dream shall never die

He clench my hand, I started to cry

Edward said I’m passing the torch to you

Then he smiled and I knew

It was soon going to be that time

My friend was saying good-bye, but I’m

Emotional with tears and could hardly say

The one thing that mattered most today

Over and over I rehearsed what I would do

Such words I would say, with appreciation too

And though we all knew this time would come

Yet, it’s here and my lips are dumb

The hours of preparation make no sense to me

Hours wasted rehearsing what should come naturally

And then in a prayer I asked for the Lord’s hand

Not just for guidance but that I’ll on His command

Keep my friend’s request and that the torch never goes out

You are ready, the Lord said, there mustn’t be a doubt

Occasions have come before with no time to say adieu

Use this time to say farewell friend and a special thank you

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The Lion Of The Senate

By Khaidji - Aug 26th, 2009 at 8:17 pm EDT

We can’t possibly outline the numerous, 300 or more, bills that Senator Edward Moors “Ted” Kennedy wrote and made into law. Most people may not fully appreciate the difficulty in getting legislation passed. Well, if you can’t, think about the trouble the Obama’s Government seems to be having with the Heath care Bill now

The Lion Of The Senate

This death, although we tried to prepare

Has grabbed tightly, people everywhere

Every political figure and every constituent

Lost this iconic figure and his needed involvement

I watched closely and read how he

Organized bipartisanship and caused both sides to agree

No other senator served in this way

Only he made crossing sides seem okay

Forty seven year he worked hard to enact legislation

The Cancer, Disabilities, Civil Rights Acts. Nationality and Immigration

Health Insurance, Children’s Health program, Mental Health Parity

Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, most recently

Senator Kennedy worked with President Bush, the two parties combined

Enacted in 2002 an educational Act, No Children Left Behind

Numerous other bills, over 300, in his political odyssey

Are now part of the Lion’s great legacy

Ted passed the torch to Barack before he passed away

Expecting Americans will enjoy Universal Health Care soon, one day

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Tribute to Senator Ted Kennedy

By Khaidji - Aug 26th, 2009 at 8:11 pm EDT

The Kennedy family has been riddled with tragedies. The history books are crowded with the many tragic incidences that described this family. Yet with all this, their contribution has been enormous. They never stopped trying to help, to change. Only one of the brothers lived to have grey hair, yet these boys will always be remembered for their grandeur. Ted Kennedy died Aug 25 before midnight. On his dying bed he was living one of his passions. He was trying to get changes in legislation passed that would see his prompt replacement. My deepest sympathy goes out to all the Kennedy Family and friends

Senator Edward Moore “Ted” Kennedy

Shook their hands and reached across the isle

Edward “Ted” Kennedy was versatile

November 7 in 1962

Assigned to the Senate and from there this icon grew

Tragedy came to his brothers very early

Oswald shot and killed JFK then Sirhan shot and killed Bobby

Remorse clouded Ted’s good judgment they say, over these 5 years

Emotions overcame Ted and little could dry his tears

Driving from a party in ‘69 his car broke a bridge

When it overturned in the water, he escaped and fled to a ridge

Abandoning the accident where his passenger had drown

Reported his guilt of fleeing and accepted the mandate of the crown

Darkness plagued Ted and he needed great light

Mounded himself into work and there shone bright

Over the next four decades his records would show

One man who became an icon that both sides will know

Reached out first as a friend to all in the House

Encouraged all other Senators to dispel political grouse

Then get to the root of the problems before they decide

Even chose to stand in the way before them, if tempers will collide

Decades of work, he wrote over 300 bills

Kept busy, they called him “The Lion Of The Senate,” for his skills

Enormous contributions he made to affect all Americans’ lives

No other Senator has done more, I hope his legacy survives

Not through his name alone but the differences he laid

Equality, Civil Rights, universal health care and immigration aid

Dogs were his passion, sailing, fishing and saying “You tried!”

Yesterday, before midnight, Senator Edward Moore “Ted” Kennedy, died

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Motivated By Money

By Khaidji - Aug 22nd, 2009 at 6:46 am EDT

It is very easy to convince people that those with better facility will give them greater care. The problem is that I have seen fancy doctor prescribe expensive unnecessary test with one purpose in mind. In fact, many surgeries are elected that may not have been necessary procedures. Isn’t it funny how almost all doctors portrayed by Hollywood are more lovable when they take no personal gain from it, when they have no ambitions of grandeur or wealth? Funny how the one great money making doctor moved away from the city to live in the countryside where he open a practice and offer all his services free of charge to all Everwood. It is profHannity to mix money with medicine, as we know; the greatest healer of all sought no monetary gain

Motivated By Money

My illness exposed me to doctor who

Only seemed interested in the money they accrue

Tonight in regular profHannity the TV host suggest

If doctors are not paid top notch money expect mediocre test

Viewers were asked to believe that the young doctors who pursue

Ambitious salaries will take better care of you

This can’t be so from what I have seen

Every doctor motivated by money seem to act mean

Doctors who quickly operate because you can pay

But never concerned that diet can take your trouble away

You can’t expect such doctors to forgo good surgical money

Making decisions to treat patients more inexpensively

On TV we met most doctors that chose to work without pay

Nursing patients to live beyond another day

Efficiency comes best from caregivers who aren’t economical scholars

You get better care from doctors not seeking the almighty dollars

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Protesters With Guns

By Khaidji - Aug 18th, 2009 at 8:45 pm EDT

In an interview one speaker said that the people sense a change is coming about and that they don’t take too kindly to removing them from they comfort zone. I seem to remember Obama saying it differently during his campaign in 2008. In fact Obama was scoffed for the use of the word bitter, but I agreed at the time. He, not wanting to separate his public took it back. Well, what are they now if not bitter? And are they not clinging to their guns?

Protesters With Guns

People who sense change sometimes act

Riotous against anything rather fiction or fact

Obstructing progress to improve they own lives

Taking up guns and replacing their knives

Economy is hard and health care strained

So Government proposes a cure, so why did they complained

They were conned by haters into believing it would

Euthanize granny with Death Panels, clearly the Bill is misunderstood

Regardless to the efforts of the President and his team

Such bitterness pour into our streets with actions extreme

Watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants

I would not believe this was Thomas Jefferson’s aspirants

That men would wield guns before their President

Have a misguided fortitude that it makes them independent

Governor once and President would be Palin planted a seed

Under her mischief the bitterness would feed

Nibbling away all good intensions and leaving an evil shell

She has managed to make innocent people blindly rebel

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The Right To Bare Arms

By Khaidji - Aug 18th, 2009 at 12:44 pm EDT

It concerns me that we have so much regulation on so many other things that are harmless and now allow something as potentially volatile as caring a very visible side arm in public and worse, at a politically charge meeting. Why all the checks of people going into office buildings, air craft and all the others. This Right To Bear Arms has now blown out of proportion and I think its interpretation should be re-examine. Surely this right is with held when we are going into court rooms, Government buildings, schools and many other places. Why then is the right not with held at the President’s town Hall meeting?

The Right To Bare Arms

The people are not bitter Obama, with guns on their hips

Holstered during their rallying trips

Everyone can within the law demonstrate

Rights to carry these weapons as they participate

Imagine such civil unrest that these

Go church with side arms strapped above the knees

How worrying to see students on our corridors

Turning out like Billie the Kid to resurrect more horrors

The parks where we go to meditate

Or walk our dogs, gun fanatics now populate

Brothers now scaring brothers if when they open the door

Are people packing semi-autos and some packing more

Rubbish, this must be rubbish to hear

Every one by the law can choose to wear

A gun while present in a politically volatile crowd

Restricting guns at other grouping will soon be disallowed

Me, I’m still having difficulty why churches have alarms

Sleeveless tops banned, ladies don’t have The Right To Bare Arms

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Palin's Panels

By Khaidji - Aug 12th, 2009 at 12:09 pm EDT

One minute he is a racist and hates White people next they think he is like Hitler, the man who killed millions so as to purify the White race. I think that these cries against President Barack Obama are larger than the people themselves.

We need to look inwardly when we find ourselves amused by such evils around us and wonder if these actions aren’t people being slaves to evil, if we aren’t acting through Satan’s will and at his beck and call.

At His Beck And Call

A stunning remark on Fox which deserved a fist

They say that President Barack Obama is a racist

Had no reservation and got no rebuke

It was as if Beck’s action didn’t seem to spook

Smiles emerged with approval on each face

Beck’s attempts to substantiate his remarks on race

Evoked nothing from the threesome sitting there

Couldn’t see any repugnance, they didn’t care

Kept listening but wanted so much to turn them off

And it only got worse when I saw no one scoffed

No one seeing any wrong in this

Didn’t understand how anyone can think Barack’s a racist

Come a few days later I heard Barack was like Hitler

A man who opted for genocide to make the Whites purer

Looks like they are bent on painting our President as evil

Like they are controlled by a dark and more sinister will

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At His Beck And Call

By Khaidji - Aug 12th, 2009 at 10:49 am EDT

At His Beck And Call

A stunning remark on Fox which deserved a fist

They say that President Barack Obama is a racist

Had no reservation and got no rebuke

It was as if Beck’s action didn’t seem to spook

Smiles emerged with approval on each face

Beck’s attempts to substantiate his remarks on race

Evoked nothing from the threesome sitting there

Couldn’t see any repugnance, they didn’t care

Kept listening but wanted so much to turn them off

And it only got worse when I saw no one scoffed

No one seeing any wrong in this

Didn’t understand how anyone can think Barack’s a racist

Come a few days later I heard Barack was like Hitler

A man who opted for genocide to make the Whites purer

Looks like they are bent on painting our President as evil

Like they are controlled by a dark and more sinister will

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Did You Cry To See That Fly Die

By Khaidji - Jun 19th, 2009 at 8:25 pm EDT

There was a bug in the White House but President Barack Obama destroyed it with his own hands. This is one time that bug would have preferred to have just been a fly on the wall.

With great precision the President was able to take it out even with his less dominant right hand. Since then there was much talk, especially from PETA who have been very critical of what they consider a very inhumane show of the previously undisclosed side of the President.

Did You Cry To See That Fly Die

Dastardly act PETA say

Immoral show of humane decay

Destroying any life, how could he

You saw it, they showed it on TV

Outrageous and shameful

Uncaring and disgraceful

Catching the fly could’ve been done humanely

Rush! He could have shouted to his security

You didn’t have to see the cruelness

They could’ve stopped to get rid of the pest

Oops! Did I say pest when I should have said fly

Some didn’t think this harmless insect should die

Even though he tried to chase it away

Even though we all could hear him say

Things like, get of here! before he raise his hand

Hit it with precision like he was always in command

And with respect he took a tissue to remove the bug

Took it up before it dirtied the rug

Flying Little Insect Exterminated Swiftly

Like this President does all things accurately

Yet PETA finds something to say, why

Did You Cry To See That Fly Die

I wonder what if it were a tick, mosquito, a louse or a flea

Even these are animals too, so would PETA have screamed cruelty?

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The National Day Of Prayer

By Khaidji - May 7th, 2009 at 5:46 pm EDT

The first Thursday in May was set aside since 1952 by Congress for the National Day Of Prayer. It was over the last 2 terms that President George Bush started making a greater Public show of it by having specially selected Christian and Jewish leaders to the East Room of the White House where he would give a short speech preceding prayers from chosen leaders.

The truth is, these prayers were for the people and not to the Lord. The same prayers for the country lead them into the war in Iraq. For the same reason we dress modestly, especially in church is the same reason we shouldn’t knowingly have cameras inspecting and reporting on us during the baring of our souls to the Lord. Actually, it’s even deeper than that!

The National Day Of Prayer

There is great sanctity in prayer

How we do it and where

Ecumenical services are more for men

National Committees choosing when

Assembly is appropriate for public display

To give an elusion they communally pray

I believe when we pray we must bare our soul

Open our heart to God and give Him the control

No interruption or distraction we should deliberately make

And so cameras and mics can make prayer fake

Lots of my friends differ with me

Don’t see the harm in praying publicly

And with the technology to spread prayer far and wide

You’re being sanctimonious if in prayer you hide

Once I bare my soul, the greatest essence of me

Focus on my Lord to pray earnestly

People should understand the emotions I feel

Reverence beyond description as I bend and kneel

And understand I would sooner walk naked through the street

Yes naked, before I pray with cameras set at my feet

Ecumenical services for the people but don’t mock the Lord

Refusing cameras by President Obama, I’m in full concord

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Burger Tips From Barack

By Khaidji - May 6th, 2009 at 9:17 am EDT

Read the news of President Barack Obama’s stop over at Ray's Hell Burger and you will be surprised at the range of opinions. The first thing I thought about was the insecurity of eating at a public place like this. I have always been a little paranoid about eating out but now with all the talk of Swine Flu, how did he managed to get Joe Biden to come along with him. But our President speaks volumes in these little gestures and whether we see them or not they are working at healing the Economy and the mood of the American. Those who dislike the President seem to be more concern of the idea that he is President than the man he really is.

Burger Tips From Barack

Barack and Biden had a touch of “burgermania”

Used a motorcade and arrived in Arlington, Virginia

Ray's Hell Burger was their host

Got it all from off a neuter Blog post

Early this morning I saw a video

Realized it was a photo op, another political show

Then something else dawned on me

I wanted for the whole world to see

President Obama left more than his $5.00 tip

Showed more than was portrayed on the video clip

For getting in line he showed that we

Regardless to position in society

Our behavior should remain the same

Manners to wait, humbleness, patience and with no shame

Barack thought of the importance of spending money

At any small man’s store, the neighborhood grocery

Reminded us that even the workers behind a Burger counter

Are equally opportune to meet nobles in social demeanor

Careful whether behind or in front a counter to do this

Keep working and your demeanor To Insure Proper Service

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The Finish Lines

By Khaidji - Jun 6th, 2008 at 5:45 pm EDT

Although they when against the expectancy of many and shifted the finish line, Barack soon managed to break that one too. He ended up that night with about 2156 votes and needed only 2118. It became obvious that where ever the line moved to he was prepared to cross over it. The same however cannot be said of Hillary since she was yet to get over the original mark

The Finish Lines

They agreed from very early on 2026

Hillary signed in acceptance at that point it’s fixed

Except she never expected a dark horse from behind

Finishing with such glory, not someone of his kind

It was hard to believe that someone so young

Nibble enough to surpass her by a political furlong

Impossible to reach unless she repudiates

Sanction to disqualify Michigan and the Floridian States

Had her petitions organized to challenge the DNC

Ladies traveled from around the country in anxiety

It was soon announced that the finish line was moved

Now they needed to attain 2118 to be approved

Excitement followed from the very next day

Superdelegates gave Obama the votes and had the final say

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Change Or Chains?

By Khaidji - May 13th, 2008 at 9:00 pm EDT

Every time I hear Barack’s message of Change I realize how far America has drifted and is now lost at sea. I want to believe that we are not so far gone that we can find our way back using the right beacon. I believe that Barack Obama stands out like a beacon in the darkest times, directing the America back to safe water

Change Or Chains?

Come November what will it be

Have a change in admin or chains to the old methodology

A vote for McCain is a vote for the Bush old way

November the people will have their say

Government over the last eight years chose to neglect

Economy, Health care, domestic boundaries and don’t forget

Our International relations is now in sad repute

Right around the world the USA is seen as a bullying brute

Come November let us not be bound

Having chains to the past and our bodies around

A vote for the Democrats can ensure that we

Install an admin who will work enthusiastically

November can be a great renaissance for all America

So choose Change not Chains, vote for Obama

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