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Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Life Apropos of Midnight

Posted by Dan Savage on Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:00 AM

George W. Bush isn't going to be president at all today.

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I really liked your speech at the brunch today. My wife and I were so glad we could experience this with the types of folks who make Seattle great.

Thanks Dan, and welcome to our first new morning in America.

Posted by Scalpel on January 21, 2009 at 12:05 AM

If Barack spends his first day on the job all sulking and hungover because he partied too late last night, I will be SERIOUSLY disappointed.

Posted by Lenny on January 21, 2009 at 12:09 AM

@2:

Agreed. Because I am, and will spend my nth day on the job in said state. I expect more from my public servants than I expect from myself.

Posted by Amused on January 21, 2009 at 12:28 AM

ha lay
fuh king
lou yah

Posted by jesusHchrist on January 21, 2009 at 12:33 AM

Hell fucking yes.

Posted by Woo. on January 21, 2009 at 12:34 AM

Finally!

As a side note, now that the election and everything else are over, will they stop wearing those stupid flag pins?

Posted by AC on January 21, 2009 at 12:36 AM

All those who do justice and love mercy say Amen! Amen! Amen!

Posted by marsgirl on January 21, 2009 at 12:43 AM

YOUTH MAYOR WATCH

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/2…

The mayor of Portland apologized Tuesday for lying about a sexual relationship with a male teenager he was mentoring three years ago, but asked the city to consider it an anomaly in two decades of public service.

Posted by Youth Mayor Watch on January 21, 2009 at 12:46 AM

LOL and yee hah.

Posted by MikeSF on January 21, 2009 at 12:58 AM

And it's about fucking time, too.

Posted by Jennifer in Chicago on January 21, 2009 at 12:58 AM

Ding Dong the Bush is Dead!!!

Posted by blackhook on January 21, 2009 at 1:24 AM

About bloody time! President Smeghead has left the building!

Posted by kathleenb on January 21, 2009 at 5:19 AM

Can we also stop the stupid and rather militaristic tradition Reagan started of the President saluting the troops? We do have civilian control of the military right?

I mean Grant, Washington and Eisenhower would not salute the troops while they were in office. So can we stop looking like we are borderline military dictatorship? Please?

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger on January 21, 2009 at 5:21 AM

Dunno what happened - but a house just fell out of the sky, and has a coupla legs sticking out from under it, and everything just changed from b/w to technicolor. WTF?

Posted by The Lollypop Guild on January 21, 2009 at 5:47 AM

But Bush Kept Us Safe! We're all gonna die now! Any minute now!

Posted by Apsaras on January 21, 2009 at 6:41 AM

Songs that have popped into my head:

Howard Jones - Things Can Only Get Better
Louis Armstrong - What a Wonderful World
Paulo Nutini - New Shoes
5th Dimension - Age Of Aquarius / Let The Sunshine In

Posted by Rob on January 21, 2009 at 6:51 AM

To paraphrase a favorite line from The Great Gatsby:

"They were careless people, Bush and Cheney -- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together and let other people clean up the mess they had made."

Posted by Slip Mahoney on January 21, 2009 at 6:58 AM

@13. I'm with you. Presidents are civilians. Was it maybe Reagan who started the stupid tradition? He once played a soldier in a movie, and so when got to office, he instinctively returned a salute. Presidents think they are being all formal and ceremonial and such, but in fact when presidents salute they are claiming membership in a group they aren't part of. It's presumptuous, over-familiar. A president returning a soldier's salute is like a white man trying to talk in "jive" to an African American. Obama seems like a man of gravitas. His inauguration should signal a return of a long-absent decorum to the institution of president. No salute.

Posted by Eric from Boulder on January 21, 2009 at 7:19 AM

It's time to stop this incessant Bush bashing and let the historians uncover his eventual esteem as a great president.

Posted by raindrop on January 21, 2009 at 8:29 AM

(hesitant to admit an eager, schadenfreudian anticipation of the series of dirty-laundy-revealing, finger-pointing, behind-the-scenes books about to be unleashed by the once-Bushies)

Posted by Andy Niable on January 21, 2009 at 8:41 AM

When does the criminal investigation start??

Glen Greenwald has completely convinced me that that man needs to be tried.

Posted by Jaya on January 21, 2009 at 8:46 AM

@19 Enjoy your growing irrelevancy. I'm confident that Bush will be put in the bottom five of all Presidents, possibly the worst of all time.

Posted by kebabs on January 21, 2009 at 9:43 AM

I want to correct @19. I hereby change "great" to "fairly good" - even I can't go that far.

Posted by raindrop on January 21, 2009 at 9:44 AM

So I guess it's finally time to remove the "George Bush White House" link from the Enemies of Slog list down the right side...

Posted by cdc on January 21, 2009 at 10:03 AM

@23 I think you need to adjust the dosage a bit more, even.

Posted by drewl on January 21, 2009 at 10:06 AM

Literally the first words that popped into my head upon awakening this morning: "President Obama".

Raindrop, will you change your opinion when he's in the dock in The Hague?

Posted by Fnarf on January 21, 2009 at 10:21 AM

As extremely happy as I am that Bush is gone, unfortunately, he's now moved to my city. Not happy at all that he's nearby, but glad he's not in charge the country anymore.

Posted by julietelise on January 21, 2009 at 11:05 AM

I feel like I just had someone perform the Heimlich maneuver on me and up came an eight year old chicken bone. I can breath again!

Posted by Vince on January 21, 2009 at 3:01 PM

yay! also, maybe people will stop carrying those annoying political puppet heads at every demonstration/festival/etc. in Seattle ever. Seriously annoying.

Posted by kuribo on January 21, 2009 at 11:29 PM