One More Thought...

[sdelmonte]

There have been times, over the past eight years, that I was not quite sure that Dubya would go away. That given how he took office and how he and his people abused their power and scared us in a regular basis, he would find an excuse to stay. Or that they would find a way to rig the votes so that Dubya would be followed by someone who was essentially the same (I still marvel at the fact that Cheney, in his arrogance, didn't run for president). Or that they would pull the sort of stunt Nixon does in Watchmen (and that Bloomberg did in real life in New York) and change the law.

Instead, the democratic process prevails. The reins of power, as determined by the people and the Electoral College, have been passed to Barack Obama. That is worth celebrating.

And instead, George W. Bush, among the very worst presidents we ever had and almost definitely the worst two-term president we ever had, has left office. That, too, is worth celebrating.

Comments

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

It is.

And it reply to your other post -- thank you for being here to help ground us.

[timewalker.livejournal.com]

Gina was sure he was going to barricade himself into the Oval Office. And one of our Republican friends thought he had started a coup when the cannons were going off during the inauguration. :)

[sdelmonte]

Christopher Buckley's first novel, way back in 1986, was about a fictional president after Reagan, but began with Reagan refusing to leave the White House.