A friend suggested this tonight, and lo and behold someone already made a YouTube video of the idea…
Congratulations, President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, your lovely daughters, and Vice-President Biden and his wife Dr. Jill Biden. This is your day. And I think I speak for most of us when I say, our prayers are with you and we ask that the Lord will give you the wisdom and diligence that you will need in the days, months and years ahead....
Ozymandias I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter’d visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp’d on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock’d them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.— Percy Bysshe Shelley
With a 22 percent approval rating – the lowest ever since the Gallup Organization first started asking the question more than seventy years ago – George W. Bush leaves office as the least popular President in modern history.
Comparatively, both Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton left with their approval ratings at 68 percent. George Bush Sr.’s was 54 percent. Jimmy Carter had 44 percent and Harry Truman had 32 percent, the previous all-time low.
(Incidentally, I’m seeing many of the few remaining supporters that Bush has demanding that “their guy” be judged by history as favorably as Truman has been. But I don’t see that happening. Truman holds the title of the real “Decider”, whereas posterity will note that Bush had no appreciable principle at all.)
Well, it can’t be said that Bush doesn’t deserve such outrageously low approval. He has nearly single-handedly destroyed the underpinnings of America, doing ...
In the past hour George W. Bush gave his last speech to the American people as President of the United States. I thought it was much like his final press conference last week: whiny, and defensive.
And not for the first time, I found myself wondering how it is that we have fallen so much as a country, from the way things used to be.
Twenty years ago, another President – that many people have said was the greatest President of the modern age – gave another farewell address to the people he had served for eight years. It was heartfelt, humble, reflective… and genuine. That President spoke of a “shining city upon a hill”. Twenty years later and the very weak man who succeeded him, actually displayed proud arrogance at how he has turned that city in a prison for its people via the Department of Homeland Security.
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How bad are things when paying for the swearing in of a new President of the United States requires bailing out by the United States government?
George W. Bush has declared an emergency in and around Washington D.C. in anticipation of what is expected to be the record number of people who will be coming to town over the next several days to witness the inauguration of his successor, Barack Obama. Doing so “frees up” contingency funds that usually go toward hurricane relief or for other natural disasters. In this case that same money is going toward the inaugural celebrations. Providing for facilities is expected to cost the city $75 million and the state of Maryland, $12 million.
Quite a few things that could be observed about what this says regarding the American people and their government…
Admittedly, presidential inaugurations have always been a bit festive. Probably none on record ...
On Thursday I received the following from Elizabeth Wilner, Director of Public Affairs at the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, who asked if I could pass it along to this blog’s readers…
...It wasn’t long ago that the idea of an American fiscal crisis was considered speculative at best. Most everyone – the government included – seemed to be living on credit with no end in sight. But recently, the debtors have come calling. Now we’re living in an America where lending institutions have collapsed, more than 1 million homes have entered foreclosure, and the federal deficit has reached unprecedented numbers.
In response to public demand for information about the scope of the country’s financial challenges, the Peter G. Peterson Foundation is proud to announce that CNN/U.S. will air the television premiere of our documentary I.O.U.S.A., together with an unscripted panel discussion with policy leaders about various economic solutions. I.O.U.S.A.
Al Franken has been declared the winner of the U.S. Senate race in Minnesota.
You know, I’ve been known for pulling a stunt or two for sake of politics. But that picture of Franken is just wrong…
Think about it: this man is about to be granted the same esteemed privileges that in more enlightened times were only granted to great orators such as Daniel Webster, John Calhoun, and Henry Clay.
And it looks like Caroline Kennedy is going to become Senator from New York, based on nothing but her “royalty”.
Now do you people understand why I believe the Seventeenth Amendment was one of the most horrible things to ever happen to the United States Constitution, and should be repealed in favor of letting the individual state legislatures elect the senators?!?...
The lesser angels of my nature are wanting to cry out that stuff like this, is enough to make me think – however fleeting and regrettably – that if the “neo-conservatives” of this country were wiped out to a man, that this would have been a much better nation for it.
However, as a Christian, I have to fight against saying that I agree with that urge.
Frank Gaffney, former Assistant Defense Secretary and now with the “Center for Security Policy” (whatever the hell that is) declared on Hardball with Chris Matthews yesterday that in spite of the overwhelming evidence that the Iraq War was begun on false pretenses, “My position is that it’s regrettable that any Americans died. It is regrettable that they had to die, but I believe they did have to die.“
Here’s the video…
I’ve thought for a very long time now that George W. ...
And to think that all this time, George W. Bush thought that the Iraqis would throw flowers at his feet… not shoes at his head:
An Iraqi reporter threw his shoes at Bush during a press conference yesterday in Baghdad and called him a “dog”. In most Mid-East cultures, showing someone the soles of your shoes is considered the ultimate – and often mortal – insult.
You know what I can’t help but think about this incident? Theodore Roosevelt was once giving a speech and someone tried to assassinate him. The bullet hit something in Roosevelt’s chest pocket, didn’t penetrate his body at all. T.R. jumped off the podium and commenced to beating the living crap out of the assailant with his bare hands. Now how come “tough guy” George W. Bush didn’t do something like that yesterday?
George W. Bush, “Liberator of Iraq”, having to duck a shoe ...
Either way you cut this, it screams out “biggest heist of all time”.
On a related note, President Bush is considering tapping into the same funds since the “bailout” failed in the Senate last night.
Time to revisit “Hell Époque” post that I made all the way back in January. That was the term that future historians, I’m sure of it, would give our current era.
...The era of United States history that stretched from the early 1990s until the end of the first decade of the 21st century, that has come to be regarded as the final years of America’s long-time domination of the world’s culture and economy.
Although noted for considerable achievements in computers and telecommunications that led to apparent empowerment of the individual, the Hell Époque was