#394 - His Poetry Sucks

From the AP wire, via CNN.com:

[Laura Bush] revealed that President Bush had penned a poem for her when she got back from a five-day solo trip to Europe, where she attended a book festival in Moscow and visited France -- getting two kisses on the hand from French President Jacques Chirac.

"President Bush is a great leader and a husband, but I bet you didn't know he is also quite the poet," she said. "Upon returning home last night from my long trip I found a lovely poem waiting there for me."

The poem read:

Roses are red
Violets are blue,
Oh my lump in the bed,
How I've missed you.

Roses are redder
Bluer am I
Seeing you kissed
By that charming French guy.

The dogs and the cat, they missed you too
Barney's still mad you dropped him, he ate your shoe
The distance, my dear, has been such a barrier
Next time you want an adventure, just land on a carrier

Well, it's not as bad as the song Ashcroft wrote, but it's certainly no threat to Rumsfeld's laurels.