Sunday, February 01, 2009

At The Alfalfa Dinner

President Obama spoke at an exclusive party the other night:
I am seriously glad to be here tonight at the annual Alfalfa dinner. I know that many you are aware that this dinner began almost one hundred years ago as a way to celebrate the birthday of General Robert E. Lee. If he were here with us tonight, the General would be 202 years old. And very confused.
I don't think he would be confused, exactly, at having a President with acknowledged African ancestry. Unhappy, perhaps. 

But he knew he lost that war,
and had to know the future held in store
things never seen before.

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