Oaf of Office [1] (on Bush's Inauguration, Jan. 20, 2005) So help him God, Bush promises he will Preserve, protect, defend the Constitution, Having destroyed the key amendments of The Bill of Rights, condemned to destitution. All men and women on the earth, he says, Have rights, have dignity, have value, but Dispatches rapists, torturers, and thugs Throughout the world, America's greed to glut. Others shall find their voice, dissent is free, He postures in his presidential preach, Posing as prophet in the bully pulpit, While crushing protest and denying speech. He says America will not impose Its style of government on the unwilling, While desecrating polling booths at home And propping dictators for proxy killing. Nor shall our nation suppose dissidents Prefer their chains, or women, servitude, While jailing activists and whistleblowers And soaking sweatshops, exploitation crude. Pausing to prompt applause at every period, He claims no-one is fit to be a master, No-one deserves to be a slave, and yet His master race is conquering the faster. Of all his promises, though, one was true, One phrase he spoke that no-one can refute, One honest note in all the jarring discord: That pledge he made "to faithfully execute." January 2005 [1]      A phrase coined by investigative reporter, Greg Palast.