How prescient was The Onion 8 years ago?

[Postman]

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28784

[chelsea0011]

1. A fitting bookend. Thanks

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Eerily so.

[drm604]

3. Very. n/t

[AlCzervik]

4. spot on.

when i go to SF the first thing i do is get an actual copy of The Onion, it's good online but awesome to have.

[Mz Pip]

5. That's pretty amazing

The Onion pretty much nailed it.

[NRaleighLiberal]

6. Now that is some scarily accurate shit....wow!

[Muttocracy]

11. scary accurate - exactly - they nailed a lot of details. nt

[high density]

7. Whoever wrote that had a time machine

It is right on from ANWR, to tax policy, to the war machine.

[Wickerman]

8. love it

er, the piece, not that it came true, nearly word for word.

"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."

"The insanity is over," Bush said. "After a long, dark night of peace and stability, the sun is finally rising again over America. We look forward to a bright new dawn not seen since the glory days of my dad."

[fizzgig]

9. it's eerie how well they nailed it

[Doremus]

10. God I remember reading that back then.

Little did we know the horrors that lay ahead. :cry: