Check out the new haiku about Calvin Coolidge.

Here’s some background from The Biography Channel:

“Calvin Coolidge and his wife, Grace, were renowned animal lovers. Instead of a fruit basket or bottle of wine, a voter in Mississippi once sent them a raccoon to be enjoyed as part of their Thanksgiving dinner. The Coolidge’s promptly named her Rebecca and proceeded to take her on walks, at the end of a leash, on the White House lawn. President Coolidge was so enamoured of the raccoon that he built her a special house and visited her every day. What’s more, when the White House was being renovated and the Coolidge family had to move out for a short time, the President was so worried that Rebecca would miss them that he had a limousine sent to pick her up from the White House.”

Before he started Twitter and took over the Internet, Evan Williams created Blogger.com, which gave life to Presidential Haiku in 2000. He once gave us a shout out, which still warms our little hearts years later.

From an interview with EVAN WILLIAMS, founder of Blogger, on Write the Web.com :

Q: Are you able to name any sites where you have noticed particularly unusual/interesting/different use of Blogger?

A: We tried to highlight such sites with our Blog of the Week, which features sites like “Who Would Buy That,” which, with much humor, highlights odd items for sale on eBay; the “Press Nothing to Continue” episode of 0sil8, which hooked up Blogger to “Tellme,” so you can listen to a blog over the phone; and “Presidential Haiku,” which features, well, haikus about American presidents.

Technically, Obama’s not taking office until January. But it sure feels like he’s already running things, doesn’t it?

Presidential Haiku 2.0 is here.  Please bear with us as we continue to add content and new features.  Suggestions are welcome.