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Happy Birthday, Mr. President
Posted: August 7, 2011
What were you doing when Obama was born?…
Barack Obama's fifty. Wow!
I was nine when he was born.
John Kennedy was president.
My breakfast flakes were corn.
The race in space had just begun.
The Berlin wall grew tall.
The Cold War started heating up
Our laundry soap was All.
Back then the only residents
the White House claimed were whites.
To talk of a black president
could land you in a fight.
How times have changed. We have progressed.
We're nearly color blind.
And yet we have a ways to go
to treat each other kind.
Best wishes, Mr. President!
On this your special day,
I pray God grants you health and help
to guide us in His way!
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Greg Asimakoupoulos (pronounced AWESOME-uh-COPE-uh-less) is an ordained minister, published author and chaplain to a retirement community in the Pacfic Northwest. Greg maintains a blog called Rhymes and Reasons, which he graciously provides to SeniorLifestyle.Greg's writings have now been assembled in book form. See the SeniorLifestyle Store. • E-mail the author (moc.loa@veRemosewA*) • Author's website (personal or primary**)
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