Tonight, ladies and gentlemen, we stand on the precipice of history.
Tomorrow Barack Obama will be sworn into office as the 44th President of the United States of America. He will also be the nation's first black president.
Obama got my vote because I thought that he was the better candidate. He is, by far, the most charismatic orator this nation has seen since Reagan, and is one of the best orators of the last century.
Is that enough? Who knows?
People were hopeful when Bush I was sworn into office, but he only lasted one term. People were ready for a change after eight scandal-laden, tax-and-spend years under Clinton. And most people were ready for a change in 2004 after one term of Bush II, but apparently not enough, as we had to endure four more years of his war-mongering shenanigans.
But that ends today. I say, with no small amount of joy, that TODAY IS GEORGE W. BUSH'S LAST DAY IN THE OFFICE OF PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
It has been a long, trying, taxing road. This country has been attacked and gone to war, and entered into the worst economic situation since the Great Depression (and it's only a matter of time until those in power who decide such things finally come out and declare THIS a depression, too.)
We need a change. We need something different.
Will it be Obama? I don't know. I DO know that it wouldn't have been McCain, that's for sure.
Obama makes me hopeful. I am intelligent enough to understand that NO president will be able to undo all of the ills of the last administration in one term. Anyone who puts THAT much faith in ANY president is a fool. Hell, it took FDR 12 years AND a war-time economy before the Great Depression finally came to an end. And Obama does not have the luxury of a war-time economy... that sort of thing doesn't exist anymore in a country where the large majority of manufacturing jobs are outsourced to other nations.
It's going to be a long road ahead of us. The next four years are going to be hard, they're going to be trying, and they're going to hold a great many changes -- some pleasant, some unpleasant -- for all of us. And, in four years, we may be calling for Obama's head on a plate. Only time will tell.
But for now, I can rejoice, if only a little, because at least THIS lunatic is finally out of office.
Tomorrow Barack Obama will be sworn into office as the 44th President of the United States of America. He will also be the nation's first black president.
Obama got my vote because I thought that he was the better candidate. He is, by far, the most charismatic orator this nation has seen since Reagan, and is one of the best orators of the last century.
Is that enough? Who knows?
People were hopeful when Bush I was sworn into office, but he only lasted one term. People were ready for a change after eight scandal-laden, tax-and-spend years under Clinton. And most people were ready for a change in 2004 after one term of Bush II, but apparently not enough, as we had to endure four more years of his war-mongering shenanigans.
But that ends today. I say, with no small amount of joy, that TODAY IS GEORGE W. BUSH'S LAST DAY IN THE OFFICE OF PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
It has been a long, trying, taxing road. This country has been attacked and gone to war, and entered into the worst economic situation since the Great Depression (and it's only a matter of time until those in power who decide such things finally come out and declare THIS a depression, too.)
We need a change. We need something different.
Will it be Obama? I don't know. I DO know that it wouldn't have been McCain, that's for sure.
Obama makes me hopeful. I am intelligent enough to understand that NO president will be able to undo all of the ills of the last administration in one term. Anyone who puts THAT much faith in ANY president is a fool. Hell, it took FDR 12 years AND a war-time economy before the Great Depression finally came to an end. And Obama does not have the luxury of a war-time economy... that sort of thing doesn't exist anymore in a country where the large majority of manufacturing jobs are outsourced to other nations.
It's going to be a long road ahead of us. The next four years are going to be hard, they're going to be trying, and they're going to hold a great many changes -- some pleasant, some unpleasant -- for all of us. And, in four years, we may be calling for Obama's head on a plate. Only time will tell.
But for now, I can rejoice, if only a little, because at least THIS lunatic is finally out of office.
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