Dear Massachusetts Republicans... Can We Talk About Gabriel?

Pond scum.  (Photo/TheSunBreak.com)

Candidate for Senate lost his temper; acted dumb.

Gomez called Ed Markey "dirty," said he was "pond scum,"

Says that ads that Markey ran distorted all the facts...

I have met some Senators and that's not how one acts.

Seems to me it's Gomez who's been running dirty ads.

Claiming he was blamed for Newtown takes some huge gonads.

Pointing out Gomez defended OPSEC's ad campaign

Isn't Markey calling him bin Laden...  That's insane.

Just because Conservatives in Massachusetts know

Voters wouldn't like the truth, they shouldn't sink so low.

Why does Gomez not defend positions that he's had?

He should check his mirror and then run a cleaner ad.

Across the Pond - FOX News and the Benghazi Conspiracy

At the next - and last - debate (my anniversary),

I would bet the candidates revisit Benghazi.

I'm not sure, exactly, what the fuss is all about;

Killers of Ambassadors are terrorists.  No doubt.

Who's behind the terrorism doesn't change the fact

President did say it was a terroristic act.

In chaotic aftermaths, in countries far away,

Sorting out the details takes you more than just 1 day.

Just like Mr. Romney's statements (his came out by noon),

President Obama may have spoken up too soon.

Monday morning quarterbacking from the FOX News booth

Claims it was conspiracy to not yet know the truth.

(You won't hear FOX mention the success of that attack

May have been related to a budgetary lack.

State Department's funding cut by G.O.P. blowhards

Means that there's less money for employing extra guards.)

One thing I am certain of - the President was clear -

We will find the terrorists who did it, never fear.

Spare me the conspiracies; I'll let the crazies rant.

FOX should interview bin Laden...  Oh, that's right.  They can't.

Across the Pond - Middle East Update

Cartoon Credit: Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press

 Looking to the Middle East, the news is pretty grim.

Breaking story; hopes for talks with Iran growing dim.

We will not lift sanctions - not until they compromise.

They want some concessions first, but we don't trust those guys.

Syrian regime continues shelling with their tanks

As its citizens begin to join the rebels' ranks.

Tighter that he grips his fist, the more folks slip away;

Assad's growing strangely more like Vader every day.

Pakistan has sentenced a physician who they said

Broke the law by helping us to see Bin Laden dead.

Gave him more than 30 years and then they wonder why

We don't tell them when a drone-strike mission's gonna fly.

Egypt - there's a ray of hope - election's underway.

Voters lined up in the streets to have a chance to say

Who will be the President...  I hope their choice is good.

(I am rather fearful of the Muslim Brotherhood.)

Overall the region's still a powder keg and we

Would be well advised to not forget the history...

Yes, I know it's ancient and our grasp is incomplete

But, if we don't learn it fast, we're destined to repeat.

Race for the White House - Across the Pond

Photo credit:  Associated Press

President Obama has received some recent flack;

Once again, the target of a partisan attack.

Romney says the choice to kill Bin Laden was a snap...

Angry that Obama seemed to take a victory lap.

I did not see any ships or flight-suits on the man,

Just a simple speech he gave while in Afghanistan

Where, again, he thanked the troops; saluted SEAL Team 6.

While, at home, Republicans got in some dirty licks.

Romney once claimed capturing Osama wasn't worth

U.S. forces trying to move heaven and the earth

Going into Pakistan; but - now - he says he would.

Won't acknowledge that the President did something good.

Mr. S. accuses me of favoring a side.

It is his opinion every politician's lied.

Says the fact Republicans, of late, have made me nuts,

While forgetting Democrats all hated Bush's guts,

Means I'm being partisan; as bad as FOX and Friends.

I think he's too cynical, for one side clearly bends

All the facts to "talking points" they parrot endlessly.

"Spiking footballs"? They should check the mirror, seems to me.