I ws leaning toward Hillary, but I actually really like this poem Obama wrote when he was nineteen. Thanks to Catherine Daly for posting the link to it on the Poetics List:

Underground

Under water grottos, caverns

Filled with apes

That eat figs.

Stepping on the figs

That the apes

Eat, they crunch.

The apes howl, bare

Their fangs, dance,

Tumble in the

Rushing water,

Musty, wet pelts

Glistening in the blue.

You know, just a little more torque and this poem would rock. It even strikes me as slightly homoerotic.

I wonder, has Hillary ever tried her hand at writing poetry?

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