From Hank:

“Bush’s Last Year”



In a few short weeks George W. Bush will begin his last year as America’s President. On January 20th, 2009 the entire world community can breathe a collective sigh of relief and look forward to the return of true American values expressed by the demonstration of our values as a society, our compassion for all peoples of all races, and most of all, a return to the principles of our Constitution and the rule of law.



Until then, We The People, led by the Congress and supported by the media, must do everything possible to render Mr. Bush irrelevant and keep him from doing anymore harm. The list of the Bush atrocities is too well known and too long to discuss in this essay, but suffice to say that our next President will have to clean up an incredible mess, and will have precious little financial or political capital to do it with. As our elected representatives this Congress must comply with the will of the American people, but more urgently, We The People must speak, loud and clear, and everyday, about the issues that are dear to us. The media must publish our words, thoughts and prayers for America, until the Congress develops the backbone to form a veto proof, bi-partisan coalition that will enable them to actually get something done.



We must take back the high moral ground and establish America as the compassionate leader of the free world while at the same time maintain the strongest military presence on the planet. We need to forget our recent tendencies toward preemption and nation building, and turn toward the problems of world poverty, starvation, pandemics and genocide. We in the United States have truly earned the title coined by Pearl Buck, “The Ugly Americans”, and only by our future actions can we erase that awful image.



It would be wonderful if I could write that there is hope that Mr. Bush will look at his last year in office as a chance to change, to right some of the wrongs he has wrought. Unfortunately this is George W. Bush I am writing about, and there is no hope whatsoever he will change. As I look forward to 2008 with optimism and great hope, I am comforted that the true greatness of America is in our ability to survive eight years of Mr. Bush.