Wretchard: “The President…implicitly left the Ayatollah’s with the power to determine when its suitor in the White House would be sufficiently shaved, barbered and bathed to be worthy of speech.”

A President sufficiently shaved
Said he’s pleased that if he but behaved
That the Persians would bend
And be willing to lend
Their good will to see that we’re enslaved

The Prez said then after his bath
That if only we’d all do the math
That it then would be clear
That all we hold dear
Will be gone lest we follow his path

To the barber he hied with a ho
And when he was all set to go
He flew to Teheran
Which we know’s in Iran
His bathed, barbered person to show

The mullahs they smiled as they asked
Have you followed the orders we’ve tasked?
When the Prez said he had
Ayatollahs were glad
And the Prez in their welcome he basked

But of course there is more to the tale
For appeasement is certain to fail
For the Prez failed to note
That while sinking the boat
Not everyone’s willing to bail