Finally Our Long National Nightmare Is Over
Did you feel it? Sometime after 12 today?
Suddenly everything around you seemed a little bit better. The air was a bit warmer. The snow melted a bit quicker. The sun began to shine a bit brighter as the cloud of eight long years of arrogance, ignorance, incompetence, and malfeasance was blown away. Blown away word by word on the fresh winds of hope that blew from the lungs of a lanky , young, (and yes African-American in case you missed it) Senator from Illinois.
Ever have one of those nightmares that are quasi-realistic , not sure when you awoke if what you just dreamt was a dream, or if it really happened? That is what the "Bush Years" have been like. Unfortunately for our country and the rest of the world, the last eight years did happen. Now it is time to wake up from our collective nightmare , America.
Farewell to you Misters Bush, Cheney et al. Farewell to all that you did to this great country of ours these past two terms. The dishonor and disgrace you have brought to both your offices will be legendary for quite some time I am sure.
You sure left one hell of a " Legacy" :
Enron. 9/11. Bin Laden & Afghanistan. Harriet Myers. Alberto Gonzalez. Kyoto. Iraq. Katrina.( I will add to this when I have more time)
Then , in your Coup de Grace, as if not to be outdone by yourselves in your own incompetence, you took the great ship that is the American (and subsequently the Global) Economy and drove it square into the financial equivalent of an iceberg, in such appalling lack of stewardship that it made Capt. Hazelton look like Admiral Nimitz . After taking a detour off the Road of Prosperity that America has been on since 1945, we can finally , collectively, as a nation take a huge sigh of relief that both of you are gone at last, one airlifted away to Texas, back to his boyhood land of entitlements; the other wheeled away in his "Mr. Potter" Signature Series wheelchair.( By the way Mr. Cheney, kudos to you on doing your utmost best to look the part, on this final day, that you played so well these past eight years from your "undisclosed location".
Like the builder that has to clean out the termite infection before he can continue building his house, so must President Obama clean out the infestation that you have left in the foundation of our nation. But he will. I have no doubt. Because although there are many striking differences between his character and yours, I believe the one that matters most is this : he truly cares about the ordinary Americans that are his fellow citizens,whether they voted for him or not. And that makes all the difference in the world.
Suddenly everything around you seemed a little bit better. The air was a bit warmer. The snow melted a bit quicker. The sun began to shine a bit brighter as the cloud of eight long years of arrogance, ignorance, incompetence, and malfeasance was blown away. Blown away word by word on the fresh winds of hope that blew from the lungs of a lanky , young, (and yes African-American in case you missed it) Senator from Illinois.
Ever have one of those nightmares that are quasi-realistic , not sure when you awoke if what you just dreamt was a dream, or if it really happened? That is what the "Bush Years" have been like. Unfortunately for our country and the rest of the world, the last eight years did happen. Now it is time to wake up from our collective nightmare , America.
Farewell to you Misters Bush, Cheney et al. Farewell to all that you did to this great country of ours these past two terms. The dishonor and disgrace you have brought to both your offices will be legendary for quite some time I am sure.
You sure left one hell of a " Legacy" :
Enron. 9/11. Bin Laden & Afghanistan. Harriet Myers. Alberto Gonzalez. Kyoto. Iraq. Katrina.( I will add to this when I have more time)
Then , in your Coup de Grace, as if not to be outdone by yourselves in your own incompetence, you took the great ship that is the American (and subsequently the Global) Economy and drove it square into the financial equivalent of an iceberg, in such appalling lack of stewardship that it made Capt. Hazelton look like Admiral Nimitz . After taking a detour off the Road of Prosperity that America has been on since 1945, we can finally , collectively, as a nation take a huge sigh of relief that both of you are gone at last, one airlifted away to Texas, back to his boyhood land of entitlements; the other wheeled away in his "Mr. Potter" Signature Series wheelchair.( By the way Mr. Cheney, kudos to you on doing your utmost best to look the part, on this final day, that you played so well these past eight years from your "undisclosed location".
Like the builder that has to clean out the termite infection before he can continue building his house, so must President Obama clean out the infestation that you have left in the foundation of our nation. But he will. I have no doubt. Because although there are many striking differences between his character and yours, I believe the one that matters most is this : he truly cares about the ordinary Americans that are his fellow citizens,whether they voted for him or not. And that makes all the difference in the world.
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