1)    He likes to be called the General
The head of an agency that’s federal
If you spit on the sidewalk
He’ll send the Incredible Hulk
He hates to cite truth or fact
Because he’s busy promoting his unpatriotic act
He frequents TV cameras with a smash
The first part of his last name sounds like trash

Who is he?

2)    She’s called madam secretary
The first one in recent memory
She thought it was worth playing global police
Even if it meant half-a-million Iraqis deceased
She may lack the insight
Because she’s only half-bright

Who is she?

3)    He is the ideal dutiful poodle they say
From an empire where the sun did not set one day
He adores his cowboy friend and considers him a fan
And insists: I’m nobody’s yes-man
When the cowboy says no, I say no

Who is he?

4)    He’s known as the old man
But he’s been conniving and scheming
In any way he can
The name of his game is survival
Always eliminating his rival
He’s not a man of deep thinking or letter
He deserves not his people
Because the people know better

Who is he?

5)    He had a great dream
For every race and every stream
When he said we shall overcome
All have followed and not just some

Who is he?

6)    He sees the world as black and white
His solution to every quandary is fight with might
The economy will not stimulate
Because he can’t articulate
While jobs are gone
He says, “bring ‘em on.”

Who is he?

7)    A nobody became somebody
Because everybody helped out
A brutal dictator among many
But was given lots of clout
When he attacked the right neighbor
He was glorified
But when he attacked the wrong one
The world was horrified
He was given all the dope
Until he hung himself with rope
Because he challenged his master
His fate ended in disaster

Who is he?

8)    He could have been among the greats
But was easily led toward the bait
He loved them in all sizes and shapes
But shamed his country with his lust for babes
Perhaps the smartest prez to have ever taken a quiz
But the only one who did not know
What is, is

Who is he?

9)    Admired around the world
For fighting oppression without a sword
Courageously spoke the truth
A role model to all the youth
His people were liberated
When apartheid was obliterated

Who is he?

10)    Arrogance is his middle name
Mocking everyone with no shame
When he’s not in bed with neo-cons
He’s on TV displaying his guns
Emerges from the war of fog
To reassure of steady slog
He loves new Europe and hates the old
Tragedy is, the true patriots are being sold

Who is he?

11)    His name evokes anger of all degrees
Though all too often it’s given a cold shoulder
Known all over the world as the four B’s:
Bloodsucker, bulldozer, bully, and butcher
Beckoned by a burning bush as a “a man of peace and goodwill”
But Jenin, Qibya, Sabra and Shatila, remain his mortal kill

Who is he?

12)    Resist my son non-violently resist
Speak truth to power and always insist
Occupation, tyranny, oppression won’t exist
When we all rise up and heroically persist
To face the dagger with the fist

Who is he?

13)    He shamed himself not his religion
When we all saw it on television
His twisted logic is surely at fault
And so his madness must be brought to a halt
All true Muslims must reject his call
It is not to true progress but to a deep fall

Who is he?

14)    It projects itself as having integrity
And following the rule of law
But Waco, Ruby Ridge, and the Muslim witch-hunts
Are what we all witnessed and saw
On 9/11 it was caught with its pants down
Because it was busy chasing
The innocents out of town

What is it?

15)    Swimming in oil is his affinity
Each night another bed with his corporate host
Should you believe in the trinity
He might be the Holy Ghost
He comes after the father and the son
But isn’t very much around
Though his presence is felt even when he’s gone
He’s nowhere to be found

Who is he?

*Answers to Political Riddles

1.    John Ashcroft
2.    Madeleine Albright
3.    Tony Blair
4.    Yasser Arafat
5.    Martin Luther King Jr.
6.    George W. Bush
7.    Saddam Hussein
8.    Bill Clinton
9.    Nelson Mandela
10.    Donald Rumsfeld
11.    Ariel Sharon
12.    Mahatma Gandhi
13.    Usama Bin Laden
14.    The FBI
15.    Dick Cheney