Not a Champaign Moment, afterall...

[elehhhhna]

Thrilling as it is for someone the FINALLY name Senior Whitehouse Official(S) for the criminals they are, this reminds me of the moment I heard the Tim McVeigh sentencing...

My boss and I -- good friends, she an excellent mentor for years--walked into a restaurant to meet a client for an early lunch, just in time to see the OK City bombing aftermath on the bar areas' big screen television.

Horrific. Shocking.

The day McVeigh's sentence was handed down, we RAN into her office and flipped on the radio to hear his death sentence announced.

We both expected some sense of closure--exhiliration, even--but after the sentence was read, we both teared up (mutually shocked by each other's reactions) and shared a big cry (two execs--she a President, me a VP--not women who cry at the office...)

You see, the sense of shame, sadness, and disgust was so strong, that retribution--payback, if you will--felt like a hollow victory.

I'm not happy or excited to see the truth finally prevail regarding the Bush the White House. These bastards have stained our flag, made rapid inroads in ruining our country, and shamed us.

May they rot in hell on earth, and beyond.

[Inland]

1. Nobody should have expected more than a step towards possible justice

Everyone who posts that it's the end of the Bush regime had better look again and see who is commander in chief of the military, who is able to cover up and disclose most government action and every event in Iraq as it suits him, who has party control over both houses of congress, and who is putting his stamp on the supreme court.

Fact is, dems and DUers have been waiting for a prosecutor, UN, or somebody to save them from the results of elections. It won't happen.

[whatever4]

2. I think it's more of a relieved feeling

that's how it feels to me at least. Just relieved that some of the truth is coming out, and (maybe) some of the criminals will be charged. At least charged.

To me, it feels something like it did in March of 03, when all we really knew at that time, shortly after the "fall of Saddam", was that what really mattered was what would happen later. The stage was set, but whether it would go well or badly was impossible to predict. We'd won, and the soldiers were pulling down the statue, and all I remember thinking or saying was "now we'll see". Though many expected it wasn't ever planned to be "won" in the first place. All we knew, then, was that nothing mattered but what would follow. That's how I feel now.

Stage is set, hopefully, to stop this train wreck. Now we'll see. I agree with you that it isn't exactly a gleeful feeling. It's just somewhat hopeful, where before there was no hope.

[elehhhhna]

4. relief. that's good--I'll go with that. thank you.

[whatever4]

8. :)

[snappyturtle]

3. Trickle down justice...

I know what you mean....it's almost an anti-climax.The administration's damage to our country is so convoluted and sinister the cobwebs of deceit will never be wiped away. As horrible as this is, I'm elated that men such as Wilson and Fitzgerald have succeeded in bringing this convoluted mess to the fore-front for all the world to experience. :woohoo:

[insane_cratic_gal]

5. I agree

But there is a small part of me that says "finally" someone is finally going to hold these bastards accountable.

Our media hasn't done it
Our party really hasn't done it (though we've tried off and on)
Our grass roots does but gets shut out and up every time, by media spin.


Finally, people across the country get to see the corruption that we've all been seeing and screaming about for years. On tv blaring into the little homes of the rich and middle class and poor. We as a country get to see a layer of paint removed from this administration. Granted it's only a rust spot, but it's something. After 5 years of waiting, finally a small nod of vindication.

Hears to hoping the paint keeps coming off! :toast:

[SharonRB]

6. Champaign? Isn't that a city in Illinois?

[elehhhhna]

9. oopsie.

darnit.

[jane_pippin]

7. While I take no joy in seeing this fading republic go a shade lighter,

I am happy that some of the lies and corruption these people are responsible for are finally being exposed to the nation. I wish none of it had happened--that Valerie Plame had not been exposed, that those 2000 kids were alive, that Bush had never been selected, for that matter.
But it did and we've been driving ourselves nuts for years trying to explain all of this to people. So I'm with you--I'm not happy to see this happen because it does shame our nation. However, I don't see anything wrong with feeling relief and even a little bit of happiness that this could signal the beginning of the end of all the lying, self-serving, destructive, divisiveness we've had to endure. I'm glad they're being exposed for what they are.