FINALLY!
I wish I was there. As it is, I'll be watching the inauguration during my lunch break, and possibly crying tears of joy and relief.
Mikey Likes It forwarded me this story from The Onion from about 8 years ago. I had seen it before, but re-reading it made me shudder with how prophetic it was. Vanity Fair has a wonderful oral history of the Bush Administration.
Man, I can't tell you how relieved I feel now with the knowledge that these long 8 years are finally fucking over. As Vanity Fair says, farewell to all that. So long to that shit-eating "I just smelled a fart" grin of Bush's, all while fucking up the country and our status in the world. Farewell to juvenile nicknames for respected world leaders. Goodbye to cowboy politics and arrogant "I'm the decider" agendas. Auf Wiedersehen to keeping your father's buddies in your pocket and making a cabinet up of Yes Men and unqualified buddies. See ya later, to collectively spending over two years of your 8 years in office on vacation, including the days leading up to 9/11 and during Katrina, to say nothing of your most recent vacation during the conflict in Gaza (which you refused to interrupt your vacation to make a statement about). So long to constantly feeling downtrodden and apathetic. Farewell, you weenie-dicked piss ants of the Bush Administration.
I have no doubt that Obama will make mistakes. I harbor no illusions about this Presidency — the people of the Obama administration are not miracle workers, and they won't be able to magically fix the state the country is in come Jan. 21. They will make mistakes, they will "spin," and they will pass legislation I disagree with. They are politicians, not saints.
However, I firmly believe they are going forward with competency and the desire to do good. I believe they want to show America's might not with guns and military force, but with diplomacy and responsible leadership. I believe that when they make mistakes, they will be willing to stand up and be held accountable.
And most importantly, just by being elected, this administration had restored our faith in ourselves. The ability to stand up and make a change, to mobilize and get things done. WE did that, the voters, the American people. Yes we can, indeed.
I wish I was there. As it is, I'll be watching the inauguration during my lunch break, and possibly crying tears of joy and relief.
Mikey Likes It forwarded me this story from The Onion from about 8 years ago. I had seen it before, but re-reading it made me shudder with how prophetic it was. Vanity Fair has a wonderful oral history of the Bush Administration.
Man, I can't tell you how relieved I feel now with the knowledge that these long 8 years are finally fucking over. As Vanity Fair says, farewell to all that. So long to that shit-eating "I just smelled a fart" grin of Bush's, all while fucking up the country and our status in the world. Farewell to juvenile nicknames for respected world leaders. Goodbye to cowboy politics and arrogant "I'm the decider" agendas. Auf Wiedersehen to keeping your father's buddies in your pocket and making a cabinet up of Yes Men and unqualified buddies. See ya later, to collectively spending over two years of your 8 years in office on vacation, including the days leading up to 9/11 and during Katrina, to say nothing of your most recent vacation during the conflict in Gaza (which you refused to interrupt your vacation to make a statement about). So long to constantly feeling downtrodden and apathetic. Farewell, you weenie-dicked piss ants of the Bush Administration.
I have no doubt that Obama will make mistakes. I harbor no illusions about this Presidency — the people of the Obama administration are not miracle workers, and they won't be able to magically fix the state the country is in come Jan. 21. They will make mistakes, they will "spin," and they will pass legislation I disagree with. They are politicians, not saints.
However, I firmly believe they are going forward with competency and the desire to do good. I believe they want to show America's might not with guns and military force, but with diplomacy and responsible leadership. I believe that when they make mistakes, they will be willing to stand up and be held accountable.
And most importantly, just by being elected, this administration had restored our faith in ourselves. The ability to stand up and make a change, to mobilize and get things done. WE did that, the voters, the American people. Yes we can, indeed.
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