"If Obama is serious about ending the divisions between Democrat and Republican, between blue states and red, between Darwinist and creationist; if hetruly believes in change—then he will appoint Sarah Palin as America’s 47th poet laureate."

The talent of a woman who can improvise a perfect 17-syllable haiku live, in front of 30,000 people—

What’s the difference
Between a hockey mom and
A pit bull? Lipstick

—must not be wasted!

She's a poet and didn't know it.

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That's not a haiku - it just has the syllable structure of one.

Well, she's not a pitbull, she just has the lipstick. I guess that's poetic justice and license.

A haiku has the structure of a riddle - the first two lines set up an image that is resolved in the third. Here is an example:

Oh! I ate them all!
And Oh! What a stomachache!
Stolen green apples.

A hakiu also usually references a season. The real point of the issue is that her oratory skills are pseudo-poetic while she still manages to maintain a logic which follows in the tradition of The Deciderer at his best.