Not sure how much longer it'll be up (he said it's going to be taken down 3 weeks after Barack Obama's inauguration) but you can still
My fellow Americans, and fellow Citizens of the World...To all of us who have suffered, have been ashamed, have been trodden upon, and have been ignored and humiliated by the criminal administration that has run this country for the past eight years:
To all of us who feared that overt and blatant evil would eclipse the goodness that we know is at the heart and soul of our country:
To all of us who lamented that we had strayed too far from the path, and that we would never again be able to feel proud to be americans:
To all of us who fought long and hard to keep the flickering and guttering flame of free thought and patriotic dissent alive in the face of corporate media ridicule and death threats from right-wing extremists:
To all who came to this site, and helped keep it alive with donations and encouragement:
After eight years of enduring outrage upon outrage, offense upon offense, crime upon crime, and insult after insult- after years of ceaseless effort, we can at last step into the light of day, and know that while there remains much to be done and much to change, the arc of history has once again been tilted towards justice.
Remember this day- and be proud.
To the human ball of failure and ignorance that has so corrupted this country,
George W. Bush, I have only the following to say:Don't let the doorknob hit ya, where the good lord split ya.You are leaving office as the most unpopular and incompetent president in the history of our nation- this caps off a lifetime of failure that is nothing short of shocking in its utter wretchedness. As an oilman, you accomplished the impossible, by being unable to locate oil in the permian basin of Texas. You got your ass handed to you as a congressional candidate. As owner of a baseball team, you only succeeded at being a willing receptacle for nepotistic greed. As governor of Texas, you gave New Jersey a boost, as your state became known as having the most polluted air in the nation, along with the most ineffective and lackadaisical government.
You capped off this lifelong parade of failure by screwing the entire country over, and pissing off the entire planet.
I have heard your parting rambles about your legacy, and while it's clear that you really don't give a crap about what the american people thought of you, you've always stated that in some uncertain future, you will be vindicated.
Lemme clue you in here, George: a million years could pass- a thousand administrations could come and go- robots from alpha centauri could invade planet earth, and attempt to wipe out the human species. As the last remaining human survivors scratch out an existence in deep caverns, living off of slime mold and rainwater, succumbing to starvation as they witness the extinction of the human species, they will at least take comfort in the fact that you are no longer president.
You will only be remembered as a hated, loathsome figure, and your sole value to future generations will be as an example of gross negligence and incompetence.
Ya see, George, if it weren't for the horrific damage you have wrought upon the world, you would be a laughable, comedic figure of tragedy- hell- you even failed as a father. It was only the heroic efforts of your secret security detail that prevented your daughters from becoming a drunken spectacle that would make Paris and Nichole look like a pair of Catholic nuns.
But I will grant you this, George- you have made me a more spiritual person.
Ya see, I have a problem accepting a purely atheist world view, where a greedy, selfish, callous, mass-murdering, thieving, hateful asswipe like you will just die of old age (and I so much look forward to that day,) without any punishment for your crimes against your fellow man.
On the other hand, I can't accept your idiotic megachurch version of christianity where you believe as an article of faith that you can commit any crime, and be absolved, because you "Accepted Jesus."
George, if your treasured rapture should happen tomorrow, and you met Jesus face to face, he would turn his back on you, without shedding a tear for your soul, as you plummeted to your everlasting torment.
I am not a Christian, nor a Buddhist, nor a Jew, Hindu, Muslim, Jain, or any other faith, but I cannot sleep well, without the faith that I choose to hold within me that somehow, somewhere, you will receive the justice that you denied so many others.
There will be justice.
But enough about you, George. You are now officially gum on our collective heel.
To the future:Much to the disappointment of some on the hard left, Obama's administration will not be a left-wing version of Bush's conservative ideological nuthatch.
Bush was incapable of governing properly, because he and his cohorts believed that their adherence to ideology was paramount. It didn't matter that the policies resulting from this ideology were disastrous- what mattered (and what was used as a measure of success) was orthodoxy and adherence to the ideology, no matter how discredited the ideology became..
If you disagreed with Bush, you officially became an "unperson" as far as he was concerned.
When we elected Obama, we didn't vote to put in a left-wing version of the Bush Bowl.
Two wrongs don't make a right, after all.
Bush has screwed up this country almost beyond recognition, and in order to make sure that Obama's desperately-needed repairs don't turn into political footballs, the moderate right needs to be brought on board.
It sucks supremely that once again, it falls to the liberals to govern like grownups, after an eight-year orgy of radical-right childishness, but them's breaks.
Oh- and by the way, I also hope the democratic majority in congress doesn't become a mirror image of Bush's post-2002 rubber-stamp republican personality cult.
Two wrongs never make a right, after all.
Obama will be a center-left president, and I'm absolutely cool with that. He will disappoint, from time to time- he will pursue a few policies that I disagree with, and will certainly make mistakes.
But I trust him. His intelligence is striking, his demeanor cool, his life inspiring, his words eloquent, his vision clear, his flaws openly admitted, and his story so unique to what our country is meant to be.
As I'm shutting down this site, in a few weeks, I am confident that in coming times, the liberal blogosphere will not follow the twisted path forged by sites like WorldNetDaily and Newsmax, and serve as checks to power, rather than an apologist for an abuse of power.
And if you doubt that will be the case, I suggest you do what I did- start your own site, and make your voice heard. If I can reach millions, you can, too. When Bushflash was at its height, it got more daily hits than Ann Coulter, Glenn Beck, and Neil Boortz, combined.
Final thoughts http://www.bushflash.com/"> Before I signed off, I wanted to say a few random things than have been nagging at me- here goes...
:toast: to Erich and thanks for all your hard work.
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