Will we be able to laugh about * pResidency in retrospect?

[Proud2BAmurkin]

all the death and corruption behind us, will we find the historical blip on the screen that brought us this clown ULTIMATELY something to laugh about?

[demnan]

1. No

not while we're still healing the sick and mourning the dead anyway.

[Kimber Scott]

2. Hell NO!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

3. Kinda hard to laugh about thousands dead and millions out of work

but Hogan's Heroes was a hit TV show...I guess anything is possible.

[rkc3]

4. Only if we can quickly move beyond the dumbass and turn the economy

and our standing in the world in the right direction.

[Worst Username Ever]

5. Not any more than we can laugh about Nixon's.

Well, we can laugh AT Nixon, and I am sure we will conitnue to laugh AT bush, but both of their presidencies are no laughing matter.

[denverbill]

6. I still don't laugh at the Reagan years.

And Shrub is even worse than Reagan, so I doubt I'll be laughing.

We'll be paying off his debts and fighting his wars for the next 20 years.

[NAO]

59. I too will never forget the "Mourning In America" caused by Reagan

The Reagan years were truly mourning in America. I can't look back and laugh at much. So many things that I see that are wrong in our country today were started by Reagan.

And I fear the Chimp has done more deep harm to our country than even Reagan did.

Kerry is going to inherit a short term catastrophic mess, combined with a long term train wreck with time bombs going off every few years for the next 50 years or so.

I feel for him, but I think he is strong and wise and that he will make us proud.

[Warpy]

7. Not a chance

This gang of thieves, ideologues, Israeli spies and religious nutcases has done far too much damage to the country to be funny, ever.

Perhaps we can manage a few cold chuckles at their antics as they get dragged off to prison, but that is about all.

[Mandate My Ass]

8. Not if I lived to be a hundred years old

There is nothing remotely funny about the last four years. Nada.

[Zero Gravitas]

9. No

I'll still be angry about it 50 years from now (if I'm still alive)

[dogtag]

10. Nope. Nothing funny about the war on Iraq.

Nothing funny about our slide into facism. Shrub, in isolation, is plenty funny, but the world under the yoke of his administration is not.

[GreenPoet64]

11. No, * will be remembered as vile. n/t

[Brotherjohn]

12. NO. Carter was a bit inept, Ford was clumsy... Ha ha. We can laugh at..

...that. We can even laugh at Clinton's sexual peccadilloes.

But Bush's presidency has directly resulted in tens of thousands of deaths. Yes, other president's have taken us to war. But seldom if ever has this war been so cleary "optional" and unnecessary.

There will never be anything funny about that.

Never.

[DemExpat]

13. Never.....

I've been too horrified by these thugs to ever joke or laugh about them in future...
imo..

DemEx

[Big Kahuna]

14. That would be like the Germans laughing about Hitler.

It's going to take a long time to live this down.

[DrFunkenstein]

15. Nothing Like A Good Holocaust Joke

Bush's inability to construct a sentence is kinda funny (not hilarious, but good for a giggle), but his Presidency resulted in a tremendous global instability at precisely the moment we most needed to find our common goals with the larger world.

Bush has set back the moderate face of Islam in the Middle East for many, many years.

North Korea went from negotiating for energy and food to becoming a nuclear threat. The ABM treaty was dissolved, new "usable" nuclear weapons were developed, and Kyoto was tossed in the garbage disposal.

We are suffering a deficit that will be felt for many generations to come in the loss of education, adequate housing, and other vital needs of our people.

George Bush is no laughing matter.

(Ps - Did I mention the vast toll of civilians that have died for less than no reason?)

[madmax]

16. Never

The deaths of innocent Iraqis, American soldiers killed and permanently maimed... never, never never.

[Weembo]

17. If you can laugh about Nixon, then yes.

[high density]

18. Not I.

He has permanently fucked up thousands of families here in the USA and the lives of so many Iraqis.

[AngryOldDem]

19. No

Not ever. This country to my mind has taken a very dangerous turn in its ideology, political and otherwise. I don't know if Kerry or anyone who follows Bush will be able to get us back on the right track again.

Also, this war that Bush has started will NEVER end. Again, ideology. The legacy of the Bush years will live on long after we have all gone to our graves.

There is nothing the least bit humorous about George Bush or the past four years. I am literally praying that the American people restore my confidence tomorrow and end this nightmare at four years, instead of extending it to eight.

[annabanana]

20. I will shudder at how close we came, back then..

at losing our country forever to the endless cycle of empire/desolation. Talk about the "last, best hope". Time is frighteningly condensed this week.

[pippin]

21. You must be kidding

The damage done by dumb fuck not only to this country but to the world is going to take decades to repair.


The Bush years will be remembered as America's Nightmare Years and Bush needs to go down in history in the company of other tyrants like Caligula, Hitler, Mussolini, Pt Pol et al.



What them US has done to the innocent people of Iraq is unforgivable. For Americans who have lost family members who served in the military there can never again be any happiness. Laughter at the Bush years? I think not. :-(

[NV Whino]

There's a lot of funny stuff about this residency

But nothing to laugh about.

[Maddy McCall]

22. Fuck NO! How could anyone ask this? 1100+ dead soldiers won't...

be funny ever.

[i_c_a_White_Ghost]

23. Hell No

These are the worst of times

[leftofthedial]

no

kee-rist on crutch

this has been catastrophe. It would be like laughing about the holocaust or something.

[SammyWinstonJack]

24. NO!

:cry:? I am already doing that!

[Z_I_Peevey]

25. God, I hope not.

I hope this period in our history will always be a sober reminder of how quickly our ideals and promise can be perverted by greed, ignorance and contempt for the common man.

[Technowitch]

26. No. We can never forget Bush's victims.

If we forget or laugh about it, we risk letting it happen again.

[deutsey]

27. No

[Pacifist Patriot]

28. I hope not.

Those who mock history are doomed to repeat it. Or something like that.

[AuntPatsy]

29. No, nothing he has heaped on our poor country is a laughing matter,

what we should do is find a way to press criminal charges against him as well as all his cohorts, they should not be allowed to get away with the destruction they have left in their wake...

It's inexcusable..

[Gregorian]

30. Only if they're jailed.

AND if we can bring dead Iraqi's and Afghanis back to life.

However, for my own health, I am working on finding a way to not hate. I haven't found the answer yet.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

58. Yes. I will laugh to see them do the perp walk

right into prison.

Let's go get those Bush bastards!

[SeveneightyWhoa]

31. Yes.

In the giddiness of seeing America about to rid themselves of his disasterous presidency, I am already laughing.

I can't wait until tomorrow.

[Clinton Crusader]

32. I dont think my dead friends from WTC or the dead soldiers are laughing

[BillZBubb]

33. No! There is nothing funny about the disastrous situation we're in.

What makes it even more sobering is the fact that Bush* could fuck the country so badly and still nearly 50% support him. I can't find a thing to laugh about in that fact alone.

[spanone]

34. No, we'll be crying for years to come.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

35. Honestly

I can't see it now. I really can't. Although this misadministration has been incompetent and evil to the point of complete surrealism, I just can't imagine EVER laughing about these long dark days. It's been like a night that has lasted for four years.

I want daybreak too badly to think I could ever laugh at this. It's been heartbreakingly sad.

[AndrewJacksonFaction]

36. Not A Laughing Matter!!!!! Fuckin' Bush! Clinton's term though I can....

laugh about. A blowjob in the Oval office. Then the repubs freakin out. HeHe.

[NoSheep]

53. Agree there!

I had to remind the two republican men I worked with that they would also lie about their blow jobs to their wives! And btw...what's so wrong with them?!!

[sampsonblk]

37. Not me

Too many deaths.

[smbolisnch]

38. No...........

:cry:

[PatriotGames]

39. Not with 1100+ of our country men and women dead. Not for a second.

[auburngrad82]

40. I don't personally see anything about this administration

It's been a very dark 4 years in America's history and it should go down as an example of how corrupt politicians can highjack the government. We should use it as a lesson to not let it happen again.

[liberal N proud]

41. No F$*king way

This nation is in a real bad way because of what this shit head has done to it.
This regime is a black stain on the old Red - White & Blue.
To have lived through this and have to say we were there will not be funny but should be used as a warning to the future generations about what can happen.

[hippiegranny]

42. I really doubt it

The god-awful mass murder of Iraqis is way to solemn to be able to chuckle at Booooosh's dunderheaded syntax mangling ever again.

[Stuckinthebush]

43. I'm still unable to laugh about the Reagan presidency

I'm sure I will never laugh about W's tenure.

[Javaman]

44. Only to keep from crying...

The man is a functional moron

[stevietheman]

45. Once his fumbles make it into the history books...

YES.

[Rincewind]

46. sure

We will laugh about the * pResidency much the same way we laugh about the Holocaust, World War II, and the deaths of loved ones. There is nothing remotely funny about what he has done to this country, and the whole world.

[Dalvis]

47. 100,000 Iraqi's have died....

....in the Iraq war, not counting over 1,000 american soldiers. There is NOTHING this administration has done that I can laugh about.

[rndmprsn]

48. i'll curse his name as long as i live

[Triana]

49. I want that bastard in prison...

...right next to OBL. And Cheney. And Wolfowitz, and Ken Lay, and Karl Rove, and...that entire cabal of criminals.

This has been one of the DARKEST times of my life, and of my entire family's lives. I WILL NOT FORGET and am in no laughing mood about it at this point. Give it 50 years or so - maybe then.

Meanwhile. Forget it. Amused, I am NOT.

[ILeft]

50. Never.

He brought shame on every citizen of our country and our children and their children. Being an "American" will never be the same. FW!

[robbedvoter]

51. Hundred years from now, the United Federation of Planets - some * jokes

may be fun. But not before

[NoSheep]

52. Never. He has hurt us so badly.

[Stinky The Clown]

54. Can't laugh

Do today's Germans laugh at Hitler?

Do today's Japanese laugh at Hirohito?

Do today's Poles laugh at Marx or Stalin?

Do today's Italians laugh at Mussolini?

Folks, we're this ".." far away from being their ourselves.

This is no laughing matter.

[Kadie]

55. NO! n/t

[requiem99]

56. HELL NO. NEVER AGAIN.

[NCFedUp]

57. Woe if we do

If we here at DU ever devolve to the point that we can laugh at the murders and atrocities of Bush and his administration, then the values of liberty and democracy will be dead in America.

[tibbiit]

60. no

tib

[tilsammans]

61. NEVAH EVAH!

The Dumbya years have been a nightmare that never ends. Even if he is defeated, even if he and his gang are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, it will be difficult for us as a country to heal. Same with our reputation in the world.

So I will always laugh at W in a Saturday Night Live kind of way -- making fun of his mannerisms, speech, etc.

But the overall effect of his pResidency? No laughing matter.

[Bridget Burke]

62. No.

Too many people have died unnecessarily.

[Starlight]

63. no

Do we laugh about Hitler? :(

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

64. 1,100 Us Military dead. 100,000+ Iraqis dead.

No.

[loudestchick]

65. unfortunately, no.

This isn't Dallas and the last four years of criminal mis-management DID happen. I only hope we can look back on this time as a turning point in our world view...a more positive turn.

[yellowcanine]

66. Do you laugh at a train wreck? I think not. Laugh at Bush? Yes

I can't laugh at what Bush did to this country. I can laugh at Bush the person.

[expatriate]

67. Not a lot of yucks for this pResidency

I can't quite choke up a lot of mirth when I think of the trail of dead bodies that Bush will leave behind him - and all the shattered lives, the wasted potential - all the people who have suffered without proper medical care or medication; all the people who are mourning the death of loved ones in Iraq; all the people who have lost jobs, homes, security, money, self-confidence and hope.

I think often of the line "Macbeth hath murdered sleep" when I think of Bush and his administration. The list of things they have murdered - security, hope, trust, faith - and the names of the dead, should be more than enough to prevent us eventually looking back on the last four years with a chortle of amused nostalgia.

[VOX]

68. No more than we can laugh at Pearl Harbor or Vietnam...

This administration has done more to bring this country up to, and now over, the brink of facism.

It will take decades to undo just the damage that is reversible; sadly, much of it is not.

[Freedomofspeech]

69. NO!!

Too many lives have been lost, and he totally divided this country. Also, I think he has caused many people to lose their religion!!!

[Oak2004]

70. No more than the survivors and witnesses to Pol Pot

or Adolph Hitler or Joe Stalin or any of the lesser bloody regimes (like *'s) have ever found the "humor" in it. Death and suffering will never be funny.