obama and lincoln

obama said that 
lincoln was great
because keeping the union
was needed to conquer the continent

obama outdoes bush's imperialist rhetoric
bush said that freedom 
is a gift from the creator
not for any one nation
obama says US is the Great Hope

obama talks of mountain top
as conquest
not spiritual

-- and obama claimed US 
not born a colonial power

ha!

appropriate that caterpillar bulldozers
would be today's appeal
economy to subjugate Nature
and destroy Indigenous Palestinian Homes

[originally published at husseini.org on Feb. 13, 2009]