{"id":6389,"date":"2026-03-16T11:14:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T01:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/?p=6389"},"modified":"2026-03-16T11:14:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T01:14:05","slug":"crafty-politicians-a-poem-by-bill-kochman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/crafty-politicians-a-poem-by-bill-kochman\/","title":{"rendered":"CRAFTY POLITICIANS &#8212; a poem and song by BBB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/crafty-politicians-optimized.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1350\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38595\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/crafty-politicians-optimized.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/crafty-politicians-optimized-557x696.png 557w, https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/crafty-politicians-optimized-768x960.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>#Poetry #Poem<\/p>\n<p>CRAFTY POLITICIANS<\/p>\n<p>by Bill Kochman<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Bill's Bible Basics Poetry and Songs\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Poetry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Poetry<\/a><\/p>\n<p>02-17-2022<\/p>\n<p>See those crafty politicians,<br \/>\nThey lie through their teeth,<br \/>\nThey all smile just so pretty,<br \/>\nConcealing what&#8217;s underneath.<\/p>\n<p>One party claims it&#8217;s this way,<br \/>\nWhile the other says it&#8217;s that,<br \/>\nPurposely trying to confuse us,<br \/>\nPulling a rabbit out of a hat.<\/p>\n<p>While you are looking this way,<br \/>\nThey scheme elsewhere subtly,<br \/>\nThey misdirect your attention,<br \/>\nJust hoping you won&#8217;t even see.<\/p>\n<p>MSM wrapped around their finger,<br \/>\nThey spin out stories what a tale,<br \/>\nOne deception follows another,<br \/>\nJust lies from the pits of Hell.<\/p>\n<p>Yet so many people trust them,<br \/>\nThey&#8217;re caught up in that game,<br \/>\nCampaigning, sending in money,<br \/>\nOh it is such a terrible shame.<\/p>\n<p>A never-ending merry-go-round,<br \/>\nOnce you&#8217;re on there&#8217;s no escape,<br \/>\nWith lies they spin you around,<br \/>\nTill your mind is so out of shape.<\/p>\n<p>Pure psychological manipulation,<br \/>\nThey slowly twist your worldview,<br \/>\nYou have turned into their puppet,<br \/>\nBy the time that they are through.<\/p>\n<p>No longer capable of seeing truth,<br \/>\nYou just parrot their every thought,<br \/>\nFully convinced only they are right,<br \/>\nIt is just a bunch of deceptive rot.<\/p>\n<p>But as for me I am truly different,<br \/>\nFrom this world God called me out,<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been marching to another tune,<br \/>\nPreaching Jesus is what I am about.<\/p>\n<p>Now what about you dear friend,<br \/>\nDid you swallow their deadly pill?<br \/>\nOr has the Lord kept you awake?<br \/>\nI hope you&#8217;re a free thinker still.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#Poetry #Poem CRAFTY POLITICIANS by Bill Kochman https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Poetry 02-17-2022 See those crafty politicians, They lie through their teeth, They all smile just so pretty, Concealing what&#8217;s underneath. One party claims it&#8217;s this way, While the other says it&#8217;s that, Purposely &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/crafty-politicians-a-poem-by-bill-kochman\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4772,3],"tags":[20,21,22,2306,2305,83,2308,2310,2312,139,135,134,30,2311,2309,2307,1219],"class_list":["post-6389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-poetry","tag-bill-kochman","tag-bills-bible-basics","tag-christian","tag-crafty","tag-crafty-politicians","tag-deception","tag-deceptive","tag-dishonest","tag-msm","tag-original","tag-poem","tag-poems","tag-poetry","tag-politician","tag-politicians","tag-sneaky","tag-vote"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6389"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38596,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6389\/revisions\/38596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}