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In a recent speech, President Obama said that economic equality is "the defining issue of our time." This is something left-leaning thinkers have been saying for years. But one would be hard-pressed to cite anything Mr. Obama himself has done to rectify this growing inequality in his first term. Will that change if he is reelected? Or is our president just...

The Campaign Season Populist

He's a campaign season populist
Now doing a turn left,
Asking more from one percenters
To aid the 99 bereft.

Of course it's nice to hear this patter
With pleasing phrases he is deft,
But only policies, not chatter
Would lend this rap some real heft.

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©2011 Michael Silverstein

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