backroom

Obama's cast his lot with Hillary
like he's campaigning for his own third term
to influence her as eminence gris
where she lacks vision that we can discern
behind the throne, he'd wrestle Kissinger
who has his own ideas what power's for
each claiming his agenda came from her
'though one loves parley, and the other, war
two academics grasping power's reins
persuading Hillary with reams of facts
a pas de trois of brass knuckles and brains
to be the moral compass that she lacks
the Will to Power scares us when it's raw
and so it masquerades as Rule of Law