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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 01:23 AM
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I think this can only have come from Lynne Cheney
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ISLAMABAD: The government is excising from the new English textbook for class XI a poem titled "The Leader" whose first alphabets of all its verses, put together in sequence as they occur, read President George W Bush.

The 20-verse poem, authored by an anonymous poet, spells out ideal qualities "the leader" has. "We have decided to delete the poem from the book, published by the National Book Foundation (NBF) and prescribed for the federal board students of intermediate," a visibly embarrassed official of the federal education ministry told The News. "It will be stretching the matter too far- to assert that the poem was inserted in the book deliberately to enumerate the qualities of the American president," he said.

http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/dec2005-daily/04-12-2005/main/main16.htm

The doggerel is included in the article, and it's laughably awful. I think people who have read Lynne Cheney's attempt at pornographic fiction will recognize the stilted style.
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