The end of an era

[Karl_Bonner_1982]

Well it's all coming to an end in just over six months. George W. Shrub will no longer live in the West Wing. In a sense I'm starting to get nostalgic memories for this era that is about to come to a close.

The verbal Bushisms. All the creative bumper stickers. All the signs and decorations at the protests. Our cracks at Bill O'Reilly and Faux News. Fahrenheit 9/11. The (failed) attempt to oust Bush in 2004 and the whole culture surrounding it. Keith Olbermann's tirades. The audacity of Cindy Sheehan. Trying to remember how to pronounce the name Boehner. How Deadeye Dick got his nickname. The GOP gay sex scandals. The 2006 midterms. The new green movement and climate change. The endless election cycle for 2008. Obama Girl and similar phenomena. Karl Rove's desperate last-ditch effort to avoid testimony.

And here we are...1/20/2009 is just a little over 6 months away. I suddenly find myself, of all things, afraid of this important date. For I know what to expect with a Texas alcoholic in the White House, but I'm not sure what either of the next two possible Presidents would do. Most of all I'm afraid that life for myself and for much of the progressive community might become boring should Obama take the Oval Office.

We'll have to find ways to make fun of an Obama administration if necessary. If not it can only mean one thing...time to get to work. Get to work on the specific plans and policies needed to change the course of this nation and build that new society we all want. We'll be out there, organizing rallies for universal health care and finally getting an opportunity to organize workers into unions with less threat of busting. It'll be crunch time for the Left in America.

But before we march out there to do our jobs as 21st century patriots, I think we should take some time to reflect back on all the memories we've had under this asshole of a president. Much good has come out of evil.

[NattPang]

1. The New Yorker has got you covered.

So yes. We'll find a way
to make fur of an Obama administration,
as it is obviously necessary.

[Cant trust em]

2. "make fur of an Obama administration'?

is this a phrase that I'm unfamiliar with or is this a typo?

[NattPang]

3. Both!

:rofl:

[Skittles]

5. lol

witty :thumbsup:

[Karl_Bonner_1982]

4. We've just gotta get through this election process first

It's been going on for over a year already, thank God there are only four more months left. But it's going to be a hard, intense four months - probably the most concentrated and intense election this country has ever seen. From now until November we'll all be eating, breathing and sleeping Campaign '08.

Then comes a 2 1/2 month breather including the finter (fall and winter) holiday season. That'll be the time to rest up, party a little bit, and start making our plans for the first part of the Obama administration.

When January 20 hits, our focus will be able to change dramatically. I, for one, will be a college graduate and will be looking for a serious job as well as continuing to push the inequality and plutocracy issues. I predict that our first major battle of the post-Bush era will be over health care. But it is only the first of many.

[curious one]

6. The era will not end and will continue. Let's not forget the damages

done to this country. Some can be fixed and some can't.