In a post yesterday on claims that Barack Obama’s oratory is poetic, I said: “Since Obama’s effusions neither rhyme nor scan, they are not poetry. Call me back when he’s delivered a speech in heroic couplets or terza rima.”

I should have known that some readers would take that as a challenge. Here is Robert Allgeyer offering Sen. Obama an elegant Shakespearean sonnet:

OBAMA SPEAKETH
I see enthusiastic youth arranged,
In legions for the future of the nation;
And elderly conservatives deranged,
By Clinton, whom I’m sending on vacation.
O, let us come together, hand in hand,
Dispensing with the soldier and the hater;
Progressivism triumphs in the land!
Though details of my policy come later.
I’ll tax and spend as often as I dare;
For that, I’ll need Congressional approval;
A little from the voters, here and there,
But most of it from equity removal.
Audaciously succeed! We know we can;
And if we fail, just blame it on The Man.