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So, what're your plans?
Just 11 days left. Barely time to put in adequate stocks of the foods and beverages of your choice. So, I'm curious, what are your plans to celebrate the stepping down of the Worst President Ever? Massive party? Coke and pretzels for everyone on your block? Kegger complete with cheerleaders? Or just a quiet, albeit kinky, evening of electrostimulation and waterboarding among friends? Perhaps a bonfire with your 401k statements and a copy of the Constitution?
Tell us here, so the SS can open a file on you, too!
Jim Downey
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The trouble is, Obama is just going to print and spend more money, another trillion or so (by the time implemented) for a stimulus.
More of the same, the last one has had no effect.
He is already qualifying his pledge to get out of Iraq, he is going to send troops to Afghanistan, and his pick of Rahm Emanuel (born in Israel and his father an Irgun leader) shows where that will go.
More of the same. Not as stupid, but more of the same.
Those who are expecting great change in the economic an world situation are going to have a long wait.
Bullshit.
Emanuel, I deleted your duplicate comment - no censorship, it just was identical and looked like some kind of glitch. I wanted to explain that, since I am also going to disagree with the content of your comment and I don't want any misunderstandings.
To reply: bullshit.
My dog - hell, my left shoe - would be a more competent president than Bush has been. Yeah, Obama and likely his successor in office will be doing things I don't like, just in order to clean up the fucking huge mess that Bush has made of the country and the world. There's almost nothing I can think of which has improved during the 8 years Bush has been in office - not our relationships with the rest of the world, not our security, not our economy, not our civil rights. This is going to take the rest of my life to fix, and probably then some.
Jim Downey
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I agree with you, Jim
It's scary how some people are already saying he's no good, and can't do any good.
Christ, we can't even call this second-guessing, what some people are already doing. It's first-guessing, zeroth guessing, minus-one guessing. Hell, if they could swing it, some people would travel back in time and greet Obama in first grade and start shouting about what a lousy president he was, how he was doing it all wrong.
They'll be a dark chorus all through his administration, fighting, lying, causing discord, dragging their feet, projecting negativity, even aggressively opposing everything Obama tries to do.
The right-wingers have created a new reality in a way. They've numbed and confused so many Americans -- including the mostly-idiot news media, and certainly including the Democratic party -- that I'm afraid we might be below some critical mass of people who can think straight, and have honest values, to support the needed changes.
The problems will drag on a lot longer because of them. And ... damn.
I'm happy that his time is
I'm happy that his time is over. Hopefully this was the last bush administration... but who knows, he has a big family.
I never voted for this Bush,
I never voted for this Bush, but I never thought he was the worst president, or even the stupidest president, ever. I voted for Obama, and I sincerely hope the optimism that led me to vote for him turns out to be warranted.
And I also sincerely hope that, in the next few years, it turns out I was wrong and Bush was the worst, and stupidest, president ever. Because if it turns out he actually had a pretty good grasp of what was going on, then we're going to be screwed.
Rob Miles
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There are only 10 types of people in the world;
those who understand binary and those who don't.
Cake.
As in, "Let them eat....."
That's how I feel we've been treated for eight years. Completely clewless, and too illiterate to read the clews people might have tried to send.
I think the guy in the next office is taking the day off. My guess, from past comments, is that alcohol will be involved. He might have to take the following day off as well. y;)
My one regret . . .
. . . is that I have to fly out to California on the 21st - and flying with a hangover is always doubly rough.
Not that that will stop me from overindulging on the the 20th, mind . . .
Jim Downey
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Like Science Fiction? Read *or listen to* my novel, Communion of Dreams, for free.
I'm staying home from work!
Cause I work for the gummint, in the DC area, and work is closed. In truth, both me and my workplace are outside the beltway in MD, so I could get there easily. But lots of others live in Virginia or DC, and would have a hell of a time getting in Tuesday morning. So it actually makes sense.
I guess I should do something to celebrate the exit of the worst boss ever. I'll think o' something.
I'm gonna go to work like usual...
...and wait for the storm troopers of the new Muslim Communist president to destroy all freedom in our free-market paradise.
(To hear some wingers tell it)
No seriously, I am going to go to work like usual. But it's very satisfying to be a part of all the Americans who contributed resources and time to see this happen. I literally wept with happiness on election night.
Plans
I want to have champagne and sushi, but I'm not sure the two go together. I might drive down the road shouting "YEAH BABY!! BUSH IS GONE!! YEEEEEEHAAAAWWW!!"
What I'd REALLY like to do is see a two-hour TV special, America Says Goodbye to the Idiot, hosted by Bill Hicks and Molly Ivins.
But, dang ...
I am going to celebrate, though. This is too fantastic an event to pass up.
And as soon as the Bush presidential library is up and running (or any statues his dimwitted supporters happen to erect), I want to be the one who starts the tradition of throwing shoes at it. Maybe post the video on YouTube and see what happens.