I couldn’t believe that none of it was covered by the press or even talked about during the campaign of 2000. No one brought it up or if someone did, I can’t remember it.

My stunned disbelief was the one overriding emotion through out every year since then. Each outrage, each crime, each lie, each cover-up and every enabler simply moved me further and further towards almost utter despair and exhaustion.

Still, there was always a tiny hope that people would wake up or pay attention or finally be moved to see what I had seen all along and when that moment finally came at the end of 2006, suddenly or so it seemed, the world flipped over and our collective consciousness kicked in. The instinct to survive became our common purpose and now…I feel good.

Would that all the Federalist Papers-fetishizing right wingers actually read and heeded those documents. Much like how Jesus-was-a-Republican megachurch fundie Xtian bigots seem to ignore every principle of the Bible.

Yup. If you’ve read his Clusterfuck Nation manifesto, you’ve read everything worthwhile he has to say. I lost touch with his Monday blog about the time he was sneering about how awful “diversity” and open borders were, but by then almost every one of them read like “Traveled to Location X to give a speech. It’s a strip-mall hell. People listened to me and failed to comprehend. They’re all idiots.” Perhaps he’s lightened up, but I’m guessing not.

Moonbat – thank you for this post. You nailed the feeling of the Bush years with the reference to Invasion of the Body Snatchers. I’ve used the image of that final point and scream from the 70s version many times, claiming that the screech would mean “Liberal! You’re with the terrorists!”

The first time I laid eyes on Bush I new we were in trouble, when the party after the election(2000) featured Texas barbecue and the Texas two step, I knew we were in for a wild ride.

Immediately after 9/11, I thought Bush did the right thing, until the bombing of Afghanistan started.
Echos of Kipling from the past, The Man Who Would Be King, gruesome death in the mountains of central Asia.

The war drums grew louder, prople I knew screamed for the blood of Iraqis, Get Saddam! Turn Iraq into Glass! the rapture is near! Mass insanity.

The list of criminals like Richard Perle, “Scooter” Libby, David Frum, Doug Feith, Elliot Abrams, Frank Gaffney, John Woo, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, PNAC, AEI,AIPAC, JINSA, “the Vulcans”,
The “fair and balanced “news” outlet.Echos of George Orwell.Music by Toby Keith and the insane clown posse.

I NEVER thought we’d see this day, But Shrub and Dick are bruised and battered; Shrub looks like he’s been on a month long drunk.

Since I drew my first breath, my country has been at war with someone somewhere.This behavior is unsustainable, and I think we’re getting near the breaking point.

All those I know who were die-hard Bush supporters now loathe the man.

Perhaps we will “walk down to Electric Avenue, and then we’ll take it higher”.

I feel a new zeitgeist enveloping us, let’s hope its a new begining.

I hope his back pain is really intense.. teeth grittin”intense

Al is an ex-patriot New Yorker living “somewhere in America” who occasionally comes up north to do teachings in community organizing for change. Al predicted way back in the fall of 2007 in a Boston Phoenix article that Obama would be the next president of the U.S. He made this prediction by his analysis of Obama’s internet fund raising and the fact that Obama’s roots are in the field of “Community Organization”. He held many of us together when we were worrying about the primaries, through the election and now though the inauguration.

Al blogged last week about Hillary’s following Obama’s lead at her confirmation hearings and pointed out areas that were different from her campaign positions. So many at Daily Kos & other sites seem to be in a twitter about this or that or he’s betraying the left via his appointments. Al pointed out in the Hillary article his view that some of this panic is a subtle form of racism. That many people just assume the white Rahm Emmanuel, etc will really be the one running the show and don’t quite believe that it’ll be the black man.

Apparently he was “injured” attempting to shift the various corpses concealed under the carpeting in his office, and will attend the Inauguration in a wheelchair….

Yeah, right. “Wheelchair.” More like Mobile Command Center for Pure Evil. He really is starting to resemble that insane scientist who created the Daleks….

Exterminate! Exterminate!