An Endorsement
Friends, Americans, Republicans, lend me your ears;
I come to endorse McCain, not to praise him.
The evil Senators do lingers after them;
The good is oft interred with their promises;
So let it be with McCain. The noble democrats
Hath told you McCain is ambitious:
If it is so, it is a grievous fault,
And grievously shall McCain answer for it.
Here, under leave of the democrats
For Clinton is an honorable woman
So are they all, honorable men
Come I to speak on McCain’s behalf.
He is no friend to me, nor faithful nor just
But Obama too says he is ambituous
And Omama too is an honorable man
He hath urged the release of many captives
Whose intelligence value was great
Did this McCain seem ambitious?
When the poor have cried, McCain hath wept,
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
Yet they all say he is ambitious
And they are all honorable men.
You all did see that in the Hilton
He was thrice presented with surcease
Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Yet they say he is ambitious;
And, sure, they are honorable
I speak not to disprove what democrats say,
But here am I to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause:
What cause witholds you then, to vote for him?
Oh judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;
My heart is in the box their with McCain,
And I must pause till it come back to me.