January 19, 2009

• As I write this, we are down to just 15 hours and 38 minutes left of the Reign of Error. The Bush Abomination will be no more by this time tomorrow. Its hard to believe all of the damage that he has done in the 8 years he has been in office. I remember when he first came into office I imagined the episode of the Simpsons in which Homer becomes sanitation commissioner. He wins election by making a bunch of crazy promises that nobody could ever keep. He starts off in office doing very good but soon things turn so horrible and he fucked up so much that at the end of the episode they not only are removing Homer from office but they are also voting on if he should be horse whipped. This how I felt about Bush years ago. I felt that people would like him at first and then he would fuck shit up so bad that we would want him gone. Unfortunately, enough people did not want him gone after his first term. But, early into his second term, the tide changed.  And judging by his dismal approval ratings for the past 3 1/2 years, most of the country has felt about him the same way I did. Of course, I never voted for him and knew he would be shit when he was running for office the first time.

  I know he likes to say that history will ultimately judge him and he will be vindicated. And while that might be true, I find it hard to believe. He has left us in a clusterfuck that is spiraling downward so fast that nobody knows what the fuck to do. Its going to take years, shit, maybe even decades to undo the damage he has caused. There is nothing he can do to change any of that at this point.

  I think the only people who will legitimately lose by him not being in office anymore are the comedians, both professional and amateur. I mean, the guy is a fucking goldmine. Just look at all the shit he has done that made him an embarrassment. Its more then just his struggling to speak. It was his nearly choking to death on a pretzel. His getting stuck in a room in China. His wiping his glasses to an unsuspecting producer on the Late Show with David Letterman. His dropping of a dog. The list goes on and on. It was going to be tough for him to top Clinton with regards to comedic material, but this is the one area that he has blow by Clinton by a long country mile. All one needs to have done is just tune into David Letterman just once over the course of the past eight years to see this. Hell, he made Letterman and his writers jobs much, much easier. I'm really going to miss making fun of him, but I would much rather have a nerdy, unflappable, non comedic, competent president. The comedians of the world will get their material from other places.

  All those in favor of horse whipping George W Bush, say "I".

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