Counting down (a rant)

I think we're down to about a hundred hours left in the George W. Bush administration ... and counting! He's done his last press conference and his last speech to the nation as POTUS, he and Dick Cheney are busily giving interviews, burnishing their legacy and insisting that they, and they alone, kept us from another 9/11 ... and it was because of all the ingenious ways they found to redefine laws and treaties so they could have unspeakable things done that we executed Germans for after the Nuremberg trials. Oh, by the way, 14 million missing e-mails have suddenly been (allegedly) found ... a day or two after a judge ordered the administration not to let that slide by. 

For me, the object lesson of the past eight years will be: This is what you get when you practice "enemy thinking" (us against them, and they ... all of them ... are evil, treacherous, etc.) and when your activities are based on the principle that the end justifies the means. 

I liked Pat Buchanan's characterization of Bush yesterday as "a tragic figure." The tragedy is what he and his toadies have done to our nation in so many ways ... economically, politically, morally and historically. In 100 hours, light will really begin to show on the dark, slimy, shadowy things in this administration that we've only begun to see glimpses of so far ... and the revulsion will be almost universal! Burnish fast, George and Dick, because the corrosion and corruption are about to show through clearly! tv

(PS: I've been advised to remember more prominently that there is that of God in every person. That's true; that's why Buchanan's characterization of Bush seems so apt ... a tragic figure. He's probably become a good husband and father, true to his faith, just not up (in my opinion and those of  millions and millions of others) to the demands of the presidency. tv)