Slips between header and content
By Special K
Disassociated Press
July 2, 2009
Reference….
Rasmussen Poll: Obama's Popularity Plunging
Tuesday, June 30, 2009 7:27 PM
By: Jim Meyers http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/obama_rasmussen_poll/
2009/06/30/230686.html?s=al&promo_code=829C-1
This header suggests a precipitous drop in popularity
For the fellow who stars in the reality drama
That remains Numero Uno [1] on the national scene,
That is, the one in the role of Potus, namely, Barack H. Obama.
A click on the link, however,
No such precipitous drop will reveal--
Only a shift in balance between those strongly approving
In favor of those for whom he has absolutely no appeal.
The latter group, for the first time in the current run,
Has surpassed the former in size
In what Rasmussen calls the popularity index--
But that should come as no surprise
To close followers of the national scene--
As portrayed in the front-running TV drama
Aptly titled “Hell Bent for National Bankruptcy”
Starring Barack (Himself) Hussein Obama--
Who have begun to see more clearly
That he not only shoots primarily from the lip--
And is accordingly quick on the flaw
Which to non-Coolade followers isn’t ‘hip’--
But also has forced his principal supporting cast
(Members of the legislative branch)
To enact unread legislation so patently dysfunctional
As to make those who (inadvertently) tune in blanch.
Still there is no suggestion of massive disaffection
(Such as that suggested by the header referenced above)
Only, perhaps the beginning of a process of disillusion in those
Who have for him less than Jonestown-like love.[2]
“There’s many a slip, ‘twixt cup and lip”
Is certainly a time-tested saying,[3]
And the increase in slips between header and content
Of its general applicability is tacit evidence dismaying.
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[1] This particular expression of “Number 1” status
Is used in response to a request from Obama
Who wishes to reinforce his appeal to Hispanic viewers,
Increasingly involved in rating actors featured in reality drama.
[2] Jonestown
We designed this Web page to emphasize the relationship between
the Jonestown cult and the culture out of which it grew.
www.owlnet.rice.edu/~reli291/Jonestown/Jonestown.html
[3] There's many a slip twixt cup and lip. (literary)
something that you say in order to warn someone not to be too confident about the result of a plan, because many things can go wrong before it is completed We still might finish in time for the deadline, but there's many a slip twixt cup and lip.
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/There's+many+a+slip+twixt+cup+and+lip
