Bailouts, flu
And stimuli
Health care
Day and night
A year of vast
Bemusement
With things both
Big and trite
The first year
Of Obama
The last one
For MJ
Thirteen-figure
Deficits
Madoff
Put away
The hue and cry
Was socialist
Banks too big
To fail
GNP-size
Bonuses
Cash for Clunkers
Sailed
Town Hall
Apoplectics
Teabagging
Redefined
Death panels
For the feeble
Comity
Hard to find
A Nobel Peace
For aura
A summit
Held with beer
Public option
Mania
Employment
Disappeared
Climategate
Conspiracies
Yankees
Got the rings
Olympics
Smiled at Rio
Vampire chic
Ka-chinged
Kenyan birth
Polemic
Balloon Boy
Punk’d the land
SC’s Guv did
Argentines
Tiger razed
His brand
Serena
Had a meltdown
Letterman
Had his staff
More war for
Us and Afghans
Karzai wrapped
In graft
D-list White House
Crashers
Palin shilled
A book
Burlusconi’s
Bell rung
Polanski
Got the hook
Wise Latina
Dust-up
Susan Boyle
Could sing
Jet landings
On the Hudson
Cronkite
Got his wings
Engaging
And enraging
A lot and not
To cheer
But here’s change
To believe in:
It’s only up
From here
