Yesterday President Obama
during his last press conference
of the year
made history
by fielding questions
from eight women reporters
and none from men.
GOP people might be tempted
to call this out
as a mere tokenist stunt.
But sometimes
in the case
of one's own party's track record
maybe it's wiser instead
to avoid that temptation.
(Or the temptation
to notice
that the North Korean
hacking group who intimidated Sony
not to release The Interview
on Christmas Day
is called Guardians of Peace
and has the initials GOP.)
This poem © 2014 Emily Cooper.
