Here’s a special original Campaign 2008 commentary in haiku form by TMV’s favorite witty poet, Michael Silverstein, aka Wall Street Poet.
Primary Season Haiku
By Michael Silverstein
Former president
Decides to support his wife
This is most prudent
Populist Edwards
Seeks to be the poor man’s friend
Poor choose other friend
Biden qualified
Richardson experienced
Neither has a prayer
Seeking real change
An angry electorate
Elects Bernie Sanders
Analysts ascribe
Huckabee’s loss at polls to
Atheist backlash
Des Moines Register
Picks Hillary and Oprah
Cancels subscription
Lieberman likely
Republican keynoter
Connecticut weeps
Voters now believe
That Gulianni backers
Are mostly legit
After denying
That he is a flip flopper
Mitt Romney recants
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.