It works for Dubya too. All we need do is change the name and it all fits brilliantly.
John
IN A TOWNSHIP OF ASIA MINOR C. P. Cavafy
The news about the outcome of the sea-battle at Actium was of course unexpected. But there's no need for us to draft a new proclamation. The name's the only thing that has to be changed. There, in the concluding lines, instead of: "Having freed the Romans from Octavius, that disaster, that parody of a Caesar," we'll substitute: "Having freed the Romans from Antony, that disaster, ." The whole text fits very nicely.
"To the most glorious victor, matchless in his military ventures, prodigious in his political operations, on whose behalf the township ardently wished for Antony's triumph, ." here, as we said, the substitution: "for Octavius Caesar's triumph, regarding it as Zeus' finest gift - to this mighty protector of the Greeks who graciously honors Greek customs, who is beloved in every Greek domain, who clearly deserves exalted praise, and whose exploits should be recorded at length in the Greek language, in both verse and prose, in the Greek language, the vehicle of fame," et cetera, et cetera. It all fits brilliantly.
1926
> > Senator Hilary Clinton was invited to address a
> > major gathering of
> > the American Indian Nation two weeks ago in upper
> > New York State. She
> > spoke for almost an hour on her future plans for
> > increasing every
> > Native American's present standard of living, should
> > she one day
> > become the first female President. She referred to
> > her career as a
> > New York Senator, how she had signed "YES" for every
> > Indian issue
> > that came to her desk for approval. Although the
> > Senator was vague on
> > the details of her plan, she seemed most
> > enthusiastic about her
> > future ideas for helping her "red sisters and
> > brothers". At the
> > conclusion of her speech, the Tribes presented the
> > Senator with a
> > plaque inscribed with her new Indian name -Walking
> > Eagle. The proud
> > Senator then departed in her motorcade, waving to
> > the crowds.
> >
> > A news reporter later inquired to the group of
> > chiefs of how they
> > come to select the new name given to the Senator.
> > They explained that
> > Walking Eagle is the name given to a bird so full of
> > shit it can no
> > longer fly.