Friends, Liberals, Moderates, lend me your ears;
I come to vote Obama, not to praise him.
The evil that men do gets in the news;
The good is oft ignored but in the ads;
So let it with Obama. The frightful Romney
Hath said Obama was a failure:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously Obama answer’d it:
“Now! Give me a Congress rid of pests!”
For Romney’s not an honourable man,
Nor is Ryan an honourable man.
How come I speak in Obama’s defense?
He is not my friend, faithful and just to me,
And Romney says he was a failure,
And yet it seems Obama is the more
Honourable man. He hath tried to bring
Hope and change to those who voted for him.
In this Obama seemed ambitious?
When the poor have cried, Obama hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
Yet the rich say “More for us! For us!”
Such rich are not honourable men.
You all did see they tied his hands and led
Him to dishonour also known as compromise.
Yet Romney calls him failure. Was this ambition?
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
And, sure, he might yet be an honourable man.
I speak not to disprove what Romney spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then, to vote for him?
O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason. Vote with me;
My rights go to the coffin under Romney,
And I must vote to keep them here with me.

***This is a rewrite of Antony’s famous speech at Caesar’s funeral in Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare. “Friends, Romans, Countrymen…”