Howard, I Know If He Really Loves Me

Yesterday's news of our Dear Leader's perceived epiphany on Aboriginal reconciliation has been predictably welcomed with derision and contempt by SMH readers in their "Your Say" opinion box. Overall, most of the problem appears to lie (no pun intended) on Mr Howard's timing, which is seen as either ten years too late, or ten weeks too early to be considered a genuine change of heart.

Sometimes, these things are best expressed in verse and buried somewhere deep in the comments is this little gem from "axelnelson":

Under Shameful Stars

Whitey stole Australia,
killed blacks near and far,
johnny won't say sorry,
Under Shameful Stars.

Nation made of bigots,
ruled in fear by one,
all hail little johhny,
Under Shameful Sun.

Selfish heartless Nation,
born of Howard's hand,
greed our greatest virtue,
Shameful Southern Land.

Suckered into Battle,
lied to with contempt,
johnny's in on war crimes,
Shameful Southern Friend.

Nauru the death camp prison,
source of johnny's pride,
lifes nothing but disgraceful,
Under Shameful Skies.

Stumbling blind in darkness
Under Shameful Stars.

The provenance of the piece is unknown, unless it is indeed the work of axelnelson. If so, bravo. Whether it's an original or not (Google had nothing for this), it's as good an ode to the last decade of Federal Liberal governance as any.

Oh and the bastard STILL won't say "sorry".



PS On an unrelated note - 3 posts in as many days!! Holidays are rad.