== Bush Death Watch: Countdown! = By Mark Morford

[madokie]

It's official: Less than one year until history slaps Dubya to the curb. Can you feel the tingle?

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2007/11/16/notes111607.DTL&nl=fix

It's just that kind of feeling, that sense of hesitant, embryonic optimism, the sense that says, oh my God, we as a culture and a smash-mouthed, war-hammered society really are fast approaching something possibly, potentially, heart-achingly new and different and — because it cannot get any worse — just a little bit better.

Here is my suggestion: Mark your calendars, set your watch, program a celebratory ringtone well in advance, because the countdown has officially begun.

It is now less than one calendar year until the next presidential election. It is less than one year until the country finally takes a deep breath and flexes its atrophied muscles and opens its bloody, Cheney-punched mouth and lets it be known to the world, to the universe, to its own numb and dejected soul just exactly how unwell it has felt, how much pain has raked its heart, lo, these past seven (eight, by then) years, by ushering in an entirely new political era, as we all exhale a massive sigh of long overdue relief that — praise Jesus, Allah, Buddha and the devil all at once — the long national nightmare of George W. Bush is finally over.

It is now safe to imagine. It is now becoming increasingly easy to actually dare to think that, in less than one year's time, Dubya will begin packing his bags, jamming into his Spongebob duffel his map of the world coloring book, English-to-English translation dictionaries, mangled pocket edition of the U.S. Constitution, Bibleman action figure set and a "Mission Accomplished!" sweatshirt, and heading off to face his destiny as one of the bleakest, most morally repellent chapters in all of American history. ...

[Bicoastal]

1. This is all well and good...

...but I thought the president leaves office on inaguration day, not election day.

[madokie]

2. isn't what he's talking about the turning of the leaves so to say

it'll be somewhat safe to let out a big assed sigh of relief that this dark time is too about to pass. oh well

[whosinpower]

3. not enough

not good enough and there is no relief - sorry. I'll tell you why. America was founded on principles - principles that Bushco fundamentally changed for the worse. Unless these issues are challenged head on, then the America I grew up to know is dead.

Which document starts out - "We the people....."? It didn't start out with - We, the corporations....."

Another statement that has the words - "Truth, justice and the pursuit of_________?"
When will your government pursue the truth - deliver justice, so America can regain what it has lost?
Running out the clock is not nearly good enough. Because then they won - they got away with it....and that is just plain wrong.

[Toots]

4. because it cannot get any worse

Has this guy not learned anything at all from the last seven years? What a very stupid thing to say..

[liberal N proud]

5. I will not sigh of relief until the bu$h regime is out of power and democracy restored

[madokie]

6. Actually I'll be holding mine until the arrests comes

[IDemo]

7. It's not official unless the Diebold machines malfunction and don't select the next Bushist

Or we may be stuck with eight years more of the same garbage with Julie Annie:

[madokie]

8. Julie Annie

I love it

[lonestarnot]

9. Julie Annie OMG! Good!

:rofl:

[Javaman]

10. This guy maybe singing the zippity do dah, but not me.

I fear the time between election day and inauguration day.

That's the time, when the last bush moron saddled Clinton with Somalia.

I fear something worse this time around.