"We are a nation in free fall. The final insult is that, one more time,

[yy4me]

the driver gets to lecture us."

This quote above says it better than most. Please see the article by James Carroll in today's Boston Globe: This is the last line.

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/01/28/our_one_way_trip_to_disaster/

Like many, I don't think I can stand to watch the idiot-in-chief one more time.

[teach1st]

1. A very apt metaphor

From the beginning of the editorial:

YOU AND everyone you love are riding on a large bus. The bus driver, unskilled and careless, drives too fast, ignores traffic signals, and barrels off the road occasionally. Because the bus is huge, other vehicles swerve to get out of its way, with cars crashing repeatedly. But your driver just keeps going, leaving carnage in his wake. Naturally, you are terrified - but your reactions are irrelevant.

Finally, the bus itself crashes, killing many. Miraculously, you and your loved ones climb out of the wreckage. A second bus is standing by, and you gratefully scramble aboard. The engine starts up, but then the bus lurches dangerously onto the road, going too fast. Only then do you see that this new bus has the same driver, and he has learned nothing. Welcome to the United States of America. And welcome to the annual State of the Union address.

Every year, the nation looks up from the wreckage, only to see that the same unskilled and careless driver is still at the wheel, bombing along. Each January, he explains himself. You already know what he will say. His one admirable quality is that, over the years, he has always said exactly what to expect. A review of the Bush speeches has an "I told you so" quality, going back to the start. That raises the question, Why have you repeatedly been surprised?

Just as we can't help gawking at a car accident, I'll be watching tonight. But I'm sure I'll be swearing and screaming at the driver who caused all the wreckage.

[Ganja Ninja]

2. I'm with you, I can't watch it either.

It's bad enough I won't be able to escape it because it will be in the news the next morning.

[hobbit709]

3. I won't be watching

It raises my blood pressure and we're down to one working TV. And I can't afford a new one thanks to the "wonderful" economy.

[SpiralHawk]

4. "You proles in the back of the bus can just shut up." - Commander AWOL

[malaise]

5. Excellent article

K & R

I won't miss it for anything. Who knows he may do us all a favor and commit suicide live on TeeVee. That would be the quintessence of my rapture.

[tekisui]

6. I'm watching, I will be cussing and celebrating his last SOTU!

I expect to see very little of him the next 358 days.

[hootinholler]

7. I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather...

Not screaming like his passengers.

-Hoot

[Jim__]

8. But, how the hell can we get off the bus? - n/t

[bdamomma]

11. this driver of the bus should have been replaced years ago.

[EnviroBat]

9. We, as a nation should turn our backs on this asshole tonight.

Turn it off. Don't watch a second of his bullshit speech. What a way to send him out. The worst ratings for a SOTU speech since the invention of television.

[Time for change]

10. James Carroll is one of our very best journalists and authors

His latest book (AFAIK), "House of War" is one of the best books I've ever read.

[Coexist]

12. nice.