Poetry At The Republican Debate
I am the defender of the Constitution.
I’m the champion of liberty.
This shows the roadmap
to peace and
prosperity.
_____
You know,
nobody accuses me of not having voted for too much.
They’re always accusing me for not voting for enough.
And I’ve been running in office,
in office off and on
_____
When you have
forty percent of kids being born out of wedlock,
and among certain ethnic groups
the vast majority being born out of wedlock,
you ask yourself, how are we going to have a
society
in
the
future?
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The world is more dangerous.
It is not safer.
North Korea is going through transition.
The Arab Spring has become the Arab Winter.
Syria is in flux.
This is a dictator who said he wants to drive the United States out of the Middle East.
I’m inclined to believe dictators.
Now I think that it’s dangerous not to.
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I have to admit,
I voted for that.
It was against the principles I believed in, but, you know, when you’re part of the team, sometimes you take one for the team,
for the leader,
and I made a mistake.
_____
We bought this notion
that you could have Carnegie units
and you could have state standards
and you could have a curriculum everybody
— every child is unique.
Every teacher is unique.