<div style="color:black;font: 10pt arial;">Oh, Milan, you never disappoint!
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<div>Joan Knutson<br>
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From: Milan Hamilton via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net><br>
To: ORDER LISTSERVE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net>; ORDER LISTSERVE <oe@wedgeblade.net><br>
Cc: Milan Hamilton <mellowmilan2@gmail.com><br>
Sent: Wed, Dec 7, 2022 4:53 pm<br>
Subject: [Oe List ...] Adventures of Joe Biden<br>
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<div>(I may have sent this from an incorrect Email address. I have too damned many)</div>

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<div dir="ltr">Well well well. No matter what you may think of whethe<span style="background-color:transparent;">Well well well. No matter what you may think of whether our current President has what it takes to have the job he got elected to, or to run again for the Octogenarian-in-Chief in 2024, you gotta admit the ship of State is a little steadier than when He-who-shall-not-be-named was rocking the boat. This gives me the inspiration to write number 15 in the Adventures of Joe Biden saga (again with a nod to Ogden Nash's Adventures of Isabel):</span></div>

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<div style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;" class="yiv5437905029MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:19.9733px;font-family:New serif;">Adventures of Joe Biden 15</span></b></div>

<div style="margin:0in 0in 3pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;" class="yiv5437905029MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:New serif;">Joe Biden half-way through his first two years</span></div>

<div style="margin:0in 0in 3pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;" class="yiv5437905029MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:New serif;">Faced the prediction of Red Wave fears;</span></div>

<div style="margin:0in 0in 3pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;" class="yiv5437905029MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:New serif;">Kevin was licking his chops at the thought</span></div>

<div style="margin:0in 0in 3pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;" class="yiv5437905029MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:New serif;">Of taking the Speakership, which he’d long sought.</span></div>

<div style="margin:0in 0in 3pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;" class="yiv5437905029MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:New serif;">Mitch was plotting in hopes they were right,</span></div>

<div style="margin:0in 0in 3pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;" class="yiv5437905029MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:New serif;">The leadership return was clearly in sight.</span></div>

<div style="margin:0in 0in 3pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;" class="yiv5437905029MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:New serif;">Joe Biden, he didn’t scream or scurry,</span></div>

<div style="margin:0in 0in 3pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;" class="yiv5437905029MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:New serif;">He calmly said “What? Me worry?</span></div>

<div style="margin:0in 0in 3pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;" class="yiv5437905029MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:New serif;">He believed our democracy would see us through</span></div>

<div style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;" class="yiv5437905029MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:New serif;">And last night, believe it! Georgia’s turning blue!</span></div>

<div style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;" class="yiv5437905029MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:New serif;">Milan Hamilton</span></div>

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