This, the final day of the Bush presidency, seems like the day to revisit The Onion’s often-revisited January 17, 2001 article about Bush, “Bush: ‘Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over'”:
“My fellow Americans,” Bush said, “at long last, we have reached the end of the dark period in American history that will come to be known as the Clinton Era, eight long years characterized by unprecedented economic expansion, a sharp decrease in crime, and sustained peace overseas. The time has come to put all of that behind us.”
Bush swore to do “everything in [his] power” to undo the damage wrought by Clinton’s two terms in office, including selling off the national parks to developers, going into massive debt to develop expensive and impractical weapons technologies, and passing sweeping budget cuts that drive the mentally ill out of hospitals and onto the street.
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Bush concluded his speech on a note of healing and redemption.
“We as a people must stand united, banding together to tear this nation in two,” Bush said. “Much work lies ahead of us: The gap between the rich and the poor may be wide, be there’s much more widening left to do. We must squander our nation’s hard-won budget surplus on tax breaks for the wealthiest 15 percent. And, on the foreign front, we must find an enemy and defeat it.”
A pretty huge chunk of the country saw the last eight years coming. I can have a little sympathy for people who voted for Bush in 2000. But in 2004? Isn’t it time y’all apologized?
Wrong then, wrong now.
I should check into to see what the Onion is saying now about Obama’s administration, because they were damn near prophetic 8 years ago.
13 hours to go………..
*apologizes*
BUT, in my defense, Kerry wasn’t a great alternative.