Beating Obama

A zillion

Republican campaign ads,

laying out the nation’s

“top priority”:

Beating Obama.

I find that weird—

More important than

boosting the economy

or reducing the debt?

The political calculation:

demonize the president.

 

The candidates

cross the state

exhorting voters

to “Take the country back.” 

From whom?

Did somebody

stage a coup,

or a heist?

And, what makes

it yours,

not theirs?

They portray Obama

not as a political opponent,
but as a usurper. 

Voters have

more capacity to think

than the Republican candidates

seem to think.

 

© Catherine Giordano