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Madam President's News Briefing

Madam President’s News Briefing

By Elton Camp

The outcome of the election wasn’t expected
It was over and it was she who’d been elected

As soon as Madam Prez’s term in office did begin
It was a team of competent advisors she brought in

One was about foreign relations and related stuff
In case seeing Russia from her yard wasn’t enough

Another was an expert American history advisor
About the past events of the nation she’d be wiser

Another’s duty was to tell her how jobs to create
Since she’d learned quitting one wasn’t that great 

Then on current events she was brought up to date
By an aide who told her what had happened of late

Finally he got to the last news item of that day
The following is the report he had to convey

“Today, two Brazilian soldiers were savagely killed
It was a terrorist group that their blood has spilled.”

A look of horror came onto the President’s face
“Why that is shocking, atrocious and a disgrace.”

The aide looked with surprise at so much dismay
She asked, “How many is a gazillion, by the way?”

Copyright © | Year Posted 2011




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