The Obama Legacy Poem by Jan Oskar Hansen

The Obama presidency

He started out promising but fell at the first hurdle
When he tried to give America a health system
That covered the working classes, what's left is
An insurance system they can ill afford.
He sent back thousands of illegals back, but since
he was the darling of the liberal press little was said.
Once when he had the chance to become great
By declaring Palestine, a free state, he didn't quite
Make it, and his speech ended in platitude.
He will be remembered as a suave but weak man
Who baulked at the pressure from Israel?
He was not a great statesman but buckled under
The burden and there are little to remember him
By other than what he could have been.