Eight Years in Eight Minutes.
This is it. It’s officially the last day of the Bush presidency.
Eight years ago, I thought he’d never get elected.
Four years ago, I really thought he’d never get elected.
And there are arguments that he didn’t. But in either case, we’ve had to endure the last eight years with him at the helm. OK….with Cheney at the helm.
And now it’s over, and the clean up begins.
Here’s eight years in eight minutes. Brace yourselves, and hang on. Then give a great sigh, and let go.
And, Mr. President? Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
Good riddance.
Required viewing!
in 2000 I did not think it could happen..2004…I was about in tears ,,I don’t tear up easy…I did not think we would or could last another 4 yeas and we almost did not
FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST!!!!
I am still so sad Obama did not make it to Alaska
A legend in his own lunch-time.
My husband and I felt robbed in 2000.
In 2004, we absolutely could not understand how he could get re-elected. We knew that we were right but somehow, at that time, we were made to feel that WE had gotten it wrong.
It hurt us to the point that it was very difficult for us to invest emotionally in the election this past year. It wasn’t that we didn’t care and weren’t trying to do our part but we had to protect ourselves a little bit too.
But on November 4th, it finally felt like it was time for a happy dance. Somehow, this time they couldn’t steal or lie enough to win.
Times are tough all over and I know we all have our stories. Hubby and I are both currently laid off. But I am planning special food for tomorrow and it will be a day of celebration.
I am going to paraphrase, but if we don’t learn from Bush, we are destined to repeat him. Meanwhile, he wants nothing more than to rewrite history. We MUST not let him do that. Never stop speaking out about the atrocities committed on his watch, under his nose, and, sometimes, with his approval. Don’t forget. Don’t EVER forget.
Vigilance, comrades. Seems that there was some learning happening on the right, and more participation & committment from the left. I am speaking of myself, not my friends who have always been willing to be more involved than I . There are others who have told me they’d not been so moved before, either, and how ’bout the youth?! We just need to keep paying attention (thanks AKM) and being watchful/confrontive when our ‘leaders’ go down the path of narcissism, etc. Vigilance.
Kansas Lady: learning from Bush was part of it……as soon as I spotted that articulate, wise, man with heart, I was ‘in” for BHO…… happy days are here again! (since Nov. 4)…….
I cried so hard in 2004, even worse in 2006.
That video was hard to sit through. It was really hard to even get past the first 3 and a half minutes.
The night before the election on Nov 3, 2008, I tossed and turned, thinking of this President who, has done so much harm.
On Jan 20th, I will have a celebration dinner for sure. It is such a relief to know that Bush is going out, but even better that McCain/Palin would NEVER GET IN! There is no way, that the inept politicians aka, repubs can bring together people the way this new administration WILL.
The work wont be easy either, but with more people coming together I agree with KO, there is HOPE.
One sunny day in late January, 2009 an old man approached the White House from Across Pennsylvania Avenue, where he’d been sitting on a park bench.
He spoke to the U.S. Marine standing guard and said, “I would like to go in and meet with President Bush.”
The Marine looked at the man and said, “Sir, Mr. Bush is no longer president and no longer resides here.”
The old man said, “Okay”, and walked away.’
The following day, the same man approached the White House and said to the same Marine, “I would like to go in and meet with President Bush.”
The Marine again told the man, “Sir, as I said yesterday, Mr. Bush is no longer president and no longer resides here.”
The man thanked him and, again, just walked away.
The third day, the same man approached the White House and spoke to the very same U.S. Marine, saying “I would like to go in and meet with President Bush.”
The Marine, understandably agitated at this point, looked at th e man and said, “Sir, this is the third day in a row you have been here asking to speak to Mr. Bush. I’ve told you already that Mr. Bush is no longer the president and no longer resides here. Don’t you understand?”
The old man looked at the Marine and said, “Oh, I understand. I just love hearing it.”
The Marine snapped to attention, saluted, and said, “See you tomorrow, Sir.”
Check out Watergate Summer. It’s on the Blogroll (listed on side of this page)
She has the video of John Legend and James Taylor and others singing Shower the People. Keep scrolling for other great clips and pictures of the train. Be sure you look at the letter Barack Obama wrote to his girls. It is in Parade magazine. Some really great stuff that gives you hope.
I saw this somewhere….maybe Daily Kos or Huff Post. I do not know who to credit.
You will all enjoy it. I did.
(We here in Oz are way out of the ‘LIVE” inauguration time zone. It all happens at ‘our’ time of 3.15am…I hope I can stay awake…or will have to resort to late replays…Have fun !)
Hit the road Bush and don’t you come back
no more, no more, no more, no more
Hit the road Bush
and don’t you come back no more
What you say?
Hit the road Bush and don’t you come back
no more, no more, no more, no more
Hit the road Bush and don’t you come back no more
Oh’ America, oh America, don’t treat me so mean,
You’re the meanest old America that I’ve ever seen.
I guess if you said so
I’d have to pack my things and go. (That’s right)
Hit the road Bush and don’t you come back
no more, no more, no more, no more
Hit the road Bush
and don’t you come back no more
What you say?
Hit the road Bush and don’t you come back
no more, no more, no more, no more
Hit the road Bush and don’t you come back no more
Now America, listen America, don’t ya treat me this-a way
Cause I’ll be back on my feet some day.
(Don’t care if you do ’cause it’s understood)
(you ain’t got mind you just no good.)
Well, I guess if you say so
I’d have to pack my things and go. (That’s right)
Today is pardon dump day. Who will it be?
Stay tuned starting around 11 o’clock tonight.
(Oh, and cheer as the door hits them all in the ass, too.)
If only the country had listened to Molly Ivins.
Fantastic celebration at the Lincoln Memorial yesterday to kick-off Inauguration festivities. Was televised ‘LIVE’ on HBO, they will have an Encore Performance tonight at 7:00 PM and 11:30 PM EST on HBO.
Garth Brooks performance was awesome !!
@CRFLATS I am laughing so hard. I´ve got to share this with the Obama supporters I met on Facebook. Hope you don´t mind! It is lovely, lovely, lovely.
Give me a few days to brace myself to watch the video. I have been unable to listen to the man in a hat (Doonesbury illustration – another lovely one!) these last years. I´ll be that like that old guy after the 20th. Will love to hear it over and over and over again.
She might be warming her pipes, but I haven’t quite heart the fat lady sing yet. Call me shell shocked from 8 years of Idiocracy, but until Obama is sworn in, I won’t be celebrating George leaving.
Nice countdown, but is you were trying to make me hate him more…it didn’t work!
And yes…HOPE!
Ya know what tickles my fanny? Knowing that SP is watching the inaugural festivities in Washington DC from her home in Alaska.
I just betcha she’s gonna say that she should’a been their when she’s on the Glenn Beck show on Fixed News Monday night.
Ya, ya betcha
The waning hours
Clouds hung heavy overhead, the gloomy atmosphere like a glue of depression, captivated the moment. George Bush head down, glassy eyed, walk’s slowly Out of the white house; no sign of his signature cocky smirk. His mind wonders too his inter most thoughts : “Father why have you forsaken me”. You lead me to believe that I Had a legacy of greatness. I know I am an ordinary Man but, but, you lead me to believe my faith would make me great. Your wisdom left me, as I waddled in my own ineptitude. I had faith that our special relationship would make me great. I thought my faith would make up for my lack of ability. I was arrogant in my faith I only had compassion for myself. I had done great wrong in your name and now I am so sorry for myself “father why have You forsaken me in my time of need”.
Boarding the helicopter thoughts jumped from faith to
Empathy thinking this must have been how Hitler
Felt in the last day’s of his administration as the truth squads closed in on his legacy. His eyes closed and He began to sleep. Confident that the burden of failure Would fade into allusions of grandeur.
Oh dear, I braced myself and watched and now I feel …. really bad.
IMPEACH!
A little over 24 hours from now, and WE get our government back.
It took two years of knocking on every single door I could find, but I feel like I had a part in it.
I saw this clip the other night and watched it with the husband. My reaction was how sobering is that in just eight minutes the slow destruction of country can be summed up.
So what will history record?
I can’t watch it. I have never been able to tolerate listening to that man, for 8 years. I have changed the channel, walked out of rooms with a wave of my hand, and generally protected myself from instant heartburn by never listening to him. He was never MY president. I never even used the phrase “our president” while he was in office. Actually, I tried not to even speak of him for fear that secret service would hear me
NOW, I have a president I can proudly say is mine.
I think back to 8 years ago and how my life has changed since then. At that time I was naive and disinterested in politics. I had finished college the May before the election that year. I voted for Gore. I was mad when all the shenanigans took place in Florida, but I really didn’t think that one man or one administration could affect the world that much (in such a bad way).
In 2004 I was more interested in the political process. I made my first monetary contributions to a presidential candidate. I thought it would be in the bag for Kerry. I mean, hadn’t everyone else experienced the same four years that I had? I was really surprised and upset when I heard the outcome of the election.
There was one really good thing that came out the 2004 election. I remember watching Barack Obama give a speech at the Democratic National Convention. I thought it was great. I had a feeling that I would see him again on the national stage because I actually got chills listening to him speak.
In the recent election cycles, I’ve been much more involved. Along with the monetary contributions, I’ve taken to volunteering in both the national and local elections. I enjoy this approach because I feel like I’m more invested in our elected leaders.
Basically, I want to thank George W. Bush for providing me with the motivation and drive to be a part of the political process. Because of him and many others, I’ve discovered that no matter how corrupt or underhanded a politician may be, they will still have people supporting them. It’s important to help people be informed in making their choices at the polls. That’s why this is a great website.
I agree with you Ripley…I have found it impossible to listen to Shrub’s twangy fake Texas accent for the last 8 years. I never voted for him or his daddy, and I was dumfounded that anyone actually could.
He has done absolutely nothing except screw this country into the ground for the last eight years while he and his cronies have gotten rich from oil, prisons, Halliburton, and Blackwater. What did you expect from a President who let the Supreme Court determine his first “election”.
Today I am putting my Obama campaign sign back out in celebration.
OT One of the guest opinions at ADN today is on keeping the media away from government officials’ kids. Apparently from the comments, the guest is a former mayor’s daughter and works in the governor’s office. So far, the comments aren’t very sympathetic.
http://www.adn.com/opinion/compass/story/659372.html?pageNum=1&&mi_pluck_action=page_nav#Comments_Container
CRmudflats – I loved that piece. Beautiful.
I wrote something that I’ll post tomorrow. At Noon EST.
I sit here in Germany and read the forums and there are people whining about all of the news coverage Obama is getting (a handful) and I shake my head at them. How can they not see the importance of this day? And tomorrow?
Because for some of us, tomorrow ends 8 yrs of torture living abroad. We expats have had to make nice everytime a local or anyone for that matter that found out I was American, asked us if I liked Bush.
And trust me, if I had said I liked Bush, they would have looked me up and down and even cussed a little under their breath and dismissed me. Most europeans HATE BUSH. And they thought Americans were just as stupid for re-electing the son-of-a-bitch.
Oh, if I had only known what I know now.
I’m talking about the election fraud of 2000 and 2004. Oh how I can’t wait to see what shit is going to hit the fans after Obama takes over.
The mayflies will come out of hiberation for an all out assault attack. A surge if you will.
Congratulations President Obama.
The World Loves You.
I’m not usually a maudlin fool, in fact, cynical observer would describe me better, but as I watched the Lincoln Memorial performance yesterday I just clouded up time and time again. It just became clearer and clearer to me that the times they really are a’changing.
I too took the last two Presdiental Elections hard. In 2000 I thought I was living in a 3rd world country. After watching the Franken recount, I am once again filled with anger and dismay that the Supreme Court of the United States would stop the vote recounting. Why????? I asked then and I ask now.
In 2004 I was just dismayed and angry at the apathy of the American people who would allow that lying, immoral A-Hole of a man to continue to deceive our country. I was appalled then and still am at the deceit and lies that tricked us into a war that is wasting young people’s lives and spending money that anyone with an ounce of intelligence could see we had no business wasting.
But now I have something I haven’t had about America in a long time – hope. Corny as it sounds, but there it is. Hope. And more importantly trust – trust in Barack Obama who I know won’t be perfect but who I truly believe has a moral compass that will guide him to make the right decisions not just the decisions to benefit a small elite group.
To quote our President Elect from yesterday.
…if we could just recognize ourselves in one another and bring everyone together — Democrats, Republicans, independents; Latino, Asian and Native American; black and white, gay and straight, disabled and not — then not only would we restore hope and opportunity in places that yearned for both, but maybe, just maybe, we might perfect our union in the process
I up for some union-perfecting!
Dear god almighty! I know everything KO ran through in those 8 minutes—couldn’t believe it was allowed to happen at the time, can’t believe it still. So we’ve known GWB was the wrong man for the job since before 2000. I say we round up the neocon cabal that put him in power and kept him there. They’ve all profited and think they can go off quietly and live on the spoils. They should all be punished, pay huge fines, and given 100,000 hours of community service to perform on the Gulf Coast, in the MIddle East, and in our inner cities. Evil bastards!
This brought tears to my eyes the first time I saw it – and then I came to mudflats for my morning fix and here it was again. I sat here and watched it – again… and wondered for the millionth time how so many people could have been so stupid – or maybe it was just Greed. With all the fuss about One Nation Under God – we have been One Nation Under Greed, and Bush has been the poster child of greed and the abuse of power.
I will always wonder how aware he is of the damage he has done – or of how he has been used to bring us to this point so others could gain financially. Does he understand the death and suffering he has brought to millions in this country and abroad? Somehow I doubt it. Does he see the blood on his hands? Does he still think God told him to do those things? Isn’t that what we have institutions for? People who think God said it was all right to kill (Iraqis?) Whoops, seems someone in Alaska said that, too, didn’t she?
Or has his brain been so badly fried that he really thought he was doing good by doing what he thought would make his daddy and his friends like him?
I always considered myself apolitical – but I worked long and hard against Bush in both elections only to watch them get stolen out from under us. I still believe Obama really won by a MUCH greater margin than we will ever know, but election fraud was not enough to get the McPain’s in office. I am proud to say I never saw as many people involved in the voting process before – we had volunteers coming out of our ears to help Obama.
Now my question is – can Bush/Cheney be tried for war crimes?
Please say yes.
And mudflats, THANK YOU for all you have done – and do.
Civics classes should be restored to high schools and this video should be a mandatory part of every course, every year. So that nothing like Bush ever happens again.
Obama inspires me to go around my house singing the Preamble (from Saturday morning cartoon tv as a kid).
We the people, in order to form a MORE perfect Union…….
sing it everyone!
CRFlats, asking permission to pass that comment of yours along. It’s far too good not to..
Ripley in CT: your comment said it perfectly; he was never “MY” president, either. The only time I did *not* walk out of the room when he spoke on tv was the “farewell address.” I’m not sure it was worth it (it made me nuts to hear the revisionist version of his presidency) but it was mighty fine to know that this was THE Farewell. Finally.
@ CR Flats
That little joke will help me to slowly let go of the horror Bush has brought to our lives, thank you!
For new times sake:
http://www.palinaspresident.us/barack/
Well, that was depressing. I had actually been able to sublimate some of that. Thanks a lot, AK. You brought the nightmare back.
from texasbrian: “…I’ve discovered that no matter how corrupt or underhanded a politician may be, they will still have people supporting them”
how true… but ain’t it a kick in the head! un f* believable! ex:Palin
@ WakeUpAmerica
You were braver than I was – I did NOT click on that arrow on top of Bush’s face. I’ve had more than enough of that narcissistic evil moron. This was done to remind us NOT to fall for Bush’s quick re-writing of his presidential history, but I don’t need to be reminded and I really couldn’t stand the thought of barfing first thing in the AM.
Happy Martin Luther King Day and please everyone – post here today with what you are doing on this day of joy and service to our country (OUR country once again).
@ocliberal
The quote reminds me of a moment in “freedom writers”. I think it is the line game. Look each other in the eye and step forward if you have ever been shot at, have lost 1 or 2 or 3 or more friends to gun violence. As the boys and girls step forward and all are standing on that line, looking in each others eyes they see themselves in the other.
Time to look in each others eyes and stop the hurting.
AHhhhh
Thank God for Mudflats! Inauguration time is bringing out the worst in the McCain/Palin supporters I work with, and I just want to be depressed by all their snarkiness.
I will be surrounded by Obama supporters toward the end of the week, but I feel as though I’m on my own here right now.
Thank you all for being there!
Jan,
Your OT is even juicier than you realized, perhaps.
The letter writer is Colleen Sullivan-Leonard who works in SP’s office. Was a former Wasilla city council member.
Her husband is Ted Leonard. If my info is current, he’s the Executive Director of AIDEA.
http://www.dced.state.ak.us/dca/edrg/EDRG_BrowsePage_Template.cfm?Program_Name=Rural+Energy+Related+Training
Make of it what you will.
listening to Bush.. not me.. he makes me cringe like sp.. it hurt my ears to hear the complete lack of intellect.. YIKES, It’s frightening that anyone would Vote for such idiots.
By this time tomorrow it will all be over. How did anyone ever survive this? Just unbelievable. When I saw him massage the back of the Chancellor of Germany in that clip I just cringed. We are bloodied and we are bruised. But we are all here. The Mudflats was born out of the last final two month ordeal of this eight year hell. Everyone remember what happened when the American people let themselves be man handled by ideologues. Remember this ruin as we try to now pick up the pieces and rebuild our nation starting at noon tomorrow.
Lighthouse, here’s one to make you fellow workers go nuts…bring some Krispy Kreme donuts in, LOL, Mudpups check this out…Yes we can!
Krispy Kreme to Give Out Inaugural Donuts; Right-Wingers Go Nuts
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/120711/
“”Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc. (NYSE: KKD) is honoring American’s sense of pride and freedom of choice on Inauguration Day, by offering a free doughnut of choice to every customer on this historic day, Jan. 20. By doing so, participating Krispy Kreme stores nationwide are making an oath to tasty goodies — just another reminder of how oh-so-sweet ‘free’ can be.”
the wingnuts are mad b/c the “Choice” word is being used, as in Pro-life, free to choose etc.
OMG! they are so over the top!
Krispy Kremes…I like it!
I appreciate AKM’s delicate language about the 2000 and 2004 elections, but I’ll just say it. They were STOLEN by the thugs who have brought us the last eight years of misery. I hope we have learned our lesson. The road forward will be very difficult, and we can’t now sit back and think Obama is going to fix everything. No, HE can’t, but yes, WE can.
Progressive Revolution: We Can’t Afford to Play Small-Ball and Tip-Toe Around Right-Wingers Anymore
http://www.alternet.org/election08/120236/
Good article fearmongering of the Right:
“Fear and Conservatism
Fear has been a staple of every generation of conservatives …. Fear of the democratic mob. Fear of the freed slave. Fear of the liberated woman destroying the traditional family. Fear of freethinkers destroying religion. Fear of communism. Fear of gays and lesbians. Fear of hippies, “free love,” and the drug culture. Fear of the immigrant. In a bizarre twist, Social Darwinism gave us fear of the weak, and in the modern version of Social Darwinism, Reagan gave us fear of the poor on welfare. Post-9/11, you can now add in the ever-potent fear of terrorism. Sadly, while some of those fears have faded with the passage of history, many remain with us, still powerful.
Many conservatives still fear feminism, sometimes to a hilarious degree. Here is one of my all-time favorite quotes, from the inimitable Pat Robertson: “[Feminism] is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.”
Yep! That’s the right wing nutjobs
possum, I read an article yesterday on salon.com written by Glenn Greenwald about the recent FISA Court ruling. The right-leaning media machines are reporting, along with Faux Nooz, that the ruling exonerated Bushco from prosecution for war crimes, but it doesn’t. What the ruling means is that Congress did not act illegally in passing a law regarding wireless wiretapping. Greenwald explains the ruling in detail and shows how there is a movement by the media to distort the meaning of the ruling. The FISA ruling does not mean that Bushco cannot be tried for war crimes, especially torture. Greenwald has another article which explains the role of the media in keeping Americans ignorant of the illegal/suspect actions taken by members of Bushco. Both these articles are definitely worth a read. I was suspicious of Bush’s motivations for wanting to be POTUS. My BS detector went off when I heard him on the campaign trail in 1999-2000. I never voted for him. I couldn’t understand why people voted to re-elect him in 2004. As an African American who has lived in the south my entire life, his election set off klaxons in my head. I saw him for what he was and knew he was all for himself and his cronies, and the past 8 years proved this. Many Americans love Bush and are still defending his actions even though they are firsthand observers of the devastation. I truly believe they are victims of Stockholm Syndrome. The conservatives have invaded the Huffpo and are spewing hatred toward Obama from every angle, even to the point of saying that he won’t make it through his first month in office. I wish these kinds of people would move to Iran so that the rest of us can help Obama get this country out of the cesspool it is currently in. We will need to be very vigilant because some of them are potentially treasonous with their talk of undermining our government.
Thanks, AKM and all of you for helping keep America informed. This is a blog site I visit several times a day, especially on the weekend when I’n not working.
Carol.Seattle,
I teach civics in high school in GA. I know for a fact that what I teach in the classroom is overridden by the beliefs and attitudes of parents. I found this out firsthand during this last election cycle.
Some of the pundints (SP speak for pundits) in the UK are worried about what they call the UK’s ‘special relationship’ with the USA.
I am not worried, I don’t want a ‘special relationship’. I want a grown up bloody relationship built on mutual respect, not mutual back covering.
OT – I know SP is doing a Glen Beck show at 5pm ET, does anyone know where she is doing it – from home via satellite or on location?, she is a horrible little media hound.
Muppet2 (06:30:59) -
It was either election fraud, or we elected him, but not both.–
Either way its good riddance. Soon I get to say with pride- my president is not a moron, not an embarrassment! in fact he’s pretty darned smart and capable.
I’ve been trying to figure out why so many Americans were fooled by Bush, and why so many Europeans see right through him. Is it the appeals to patriotism or the imbalanced news coverage, or is America full of good ol’ boys like George?
Any thoughts on that?
Talk about history repeating itself…
This little clip from the Original Wizard of Oz movie seems amazingly appropriate for tomorrow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOEq-ImGWJ0
Spread the news !!!
DrChill…to your question, I think it’s the latter. What helps those ‘boys” go un-noticed is when your personal & financial life are going along with no bumps in the road, the average household doesn’t care what the president is or isn’t doing…and you see what apathy gets you! JMO
Martha Unalaska Yard Sign (07:25:27) :
Thanks! I passed it on, along with CRFlats’ post (thanks to you, CR).
I’m smiling, on my way to Costco for stuff to ship…yes, we can…
the best quote of all time, found on Margaret and Helen’s blog:
Ready?
“I hope I never find myself in the same room as George W. Bush because I love my shoes and it would be a shame to lose one up his ass.”
Oh, to have written that myself! Bravo!!! *clapping wildly*
Just hearing W has pardoned some border guards, sneaky.
My husband and I are taking the day off work tomorrow, as well as we are keeping our children home from school…..we’ve NEVER let them have a day off, unless they were ill enough to stay home. Tomorrow is a historical day, for this nation and the world.
Tomorrow, we are, as a family going to sit and watch history unfold.
Later on in their lives, when they are asked, “Where were you, when Obama was inaugurated as President?
They can say, we were surrounded by our family in our living room, watching it on TV.
The USS Cole… even tho it occurred a couple of months before gw first came into office, he still did nothing prior to 9/11 to address AQ’s growing shadow over the US.
But after the US invaded Iraq, AQ became important. How’s the hunt for bin laden going, gw?
Thank you Martha onalaska yard sign for the clip of “yes we can” that helped
dry the tears and fears from the “8 Year” clip.
Thank you ocliberal for sharing your development.
I am in hope that twenty years from now
we as a nation can look back to Bush as only a necessary evil, that forced us
individually, and a a county, to get serious about taking care of each other, the
natural world, the planet and ALL its’ inhabitants.
Things were good under Clinton for many people, but not everyone, and then the consensus
reality was that material wealth would solve everything, and that ‘progess’ was sustainable.
Bush and the neo-con controllers may have saved the planet by bolding showing their hand. They are not gone, just because he is out of office . The paranoia of the 60s
has only been proven to be good reality testing. There is much to do. But at least
we are awake to the danger. [I think that is why her blaminess is to important
to attend to]
And being awake, and having our country back, YES, WE CAN!
DonnaInMichigan (09:51:46) :
My husband and I are taking the day off work tomorrow, as well as we are keeping our children home from school…..Tomorrow, we are, as a family going to sit and watch history unfold.
Later on in their lives, when they are asked, “Where were you, when Obama was inaugurated as President?
They can say, we were surrounded by our family in our living room, watching it on TV.
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I am taking tomorrow off and am going to watch with my mom, just like election night.
Gerald Ford put it best:
“Our long national nightmare is over…….”
This time they thought some one who winked and blew kisses…would suffice.
Im guessing Ford did not know Rove et al.
UK Lady – Bush commuted the sentences on the 2 Border Patrol guys.They get out now but are still convicted felons.
I still cannot believe all the damage and trama to the world , that the USA was lead into with this man behind the wheel of are nation. How could we of been suckered into his bully game of, ” king of the hill”.
I LOOK FORWARD TO OBAMA!
May the kingdom of balance, shine bright, bring peace, harmony, and healing to this troubled world again.
regards to all mudflater,
turns
Dr Chill: re:I’ve been trying to figure out why so many Americans were fooled by Bush, and why so many Europeans see right through him. Is it the appeals to patriotism or the imbalanced news coverage, or is America full of good ol’ boys like George?
Any thoughts on that?
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my intuition says there were 3 things going on, which seem to be changing now: * objectivity may be more possible out of the country, *there has been greatly misused power by those who command the press bias, and most probably in the vote counting (just seems especially true in 2004 and in particularly in elections in AK)… and *the good old boys like power, vote religiously and are better at riling people up/rallying the ‘base’ instincts of their followers.
At long last we have someone who has positively stirred a bi-partisan base. Progress. Hope. Change.
The first four Dumbya years…summed up by Hunter S Thompson:
There was one exact moment, in fact, when I knew for sure that Al Gore would never be President of the United States, no matter what the experts were saying — and that was when the whole Bush family suddenly appeared on TV and openly scoffed at the idea of Gore winning Florida. It was Nonsense, said the Candidate, Utter nonsense. . . Anybody who believed Bush had lost Florida was a Fool. The Media, all of them, were Liars & Dunces or treacherous whores trying to sabotage his victory. . . Here was the whole bloody Family laughing & hooting & sneering at the dumbness of the whole world on National TV. The old man was the real tip-off. The leer on his face was almost frightening. It was like looking into the eyes of a tall hyena with a living sheep in its mouth. The sheep’s fate was sealed, and so was Al Gore’s. 11-27-2000
What the hell is going on here? How could this once-proud nation have changed so much, so drastically, in only a little more than two years. In what seems like the blink of an eye, this George Bush has brought us from a prosperous nation at peace to a broke nation at war. 3-10-2003
But wow! This goofy child president we have on our hands now. He is demonstrably a fool and a failure, and this is only the summer of ’03. The American nation is in the worst condition I can remember in my lifetime, and our prospects for the immediate future are even worse. . . The Bush family must be very proud of themselves today, but I am not. Big Darkness, soon come. Take my word for it. 7-22-2003
The 2004 presidential election will be a matter of life or death for the whole nation. We are sick today, and we will be even sicker tomorrow if this wretched half-bright swine of a president gets re-elected in November. 4-6-2004
Today, the Panzer-like Bush machine controls all three branches of our federal government, the first time that has happened since Calvin Coolidge was in the White House. And that makes it just about impossible to mount any kind of Congressional investigation of a firmly-entrenched president like George Bush. The time has come to get deeply into football. It is the only thing we have left that ain’t fixed. 11-9-2004
@ Caligirl: from the inimitable Pat Robertson: “[Feminism] is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.” —– Except for the killing my children part, this sounds pretty good!
@Donna: I only wish my kids were still home so I could do the same. I’ll watch it on tv at work and call the 2 who are in the States as it’s happening. I remember where I was the day JFK was shot (5th grade), and I’ll remember where I was on Obama’s Inauguration Day.
Worst.
President.
EVER!