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Week of November 1, 2009 - November 7, 2009

Missing President Bush but trying to learn lessons anyway


Do we miss him yet? Republicans surely don't, but maybe the rest of us, motivated by the daily mess created and exacerbated by the least competent person to serve as president since either Andrew Johnson or James Buchanan, do. It was, after all, his blundering and constant attempts to feather the nests of his benefactors and friends that showed our less progressive friends and relatives that assault on government was inspired by nothing more than greed and was not in the best interests of anybody but those who directly benefited from the bizarro operation of government by those dedicated to its destruction.

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One year later


President Kennedy's inauguration on January 20, 1961 is the first Great National Event which I can actually recall. The flights of Alan B. Shepherd and John Glenn, leading to the actual exploration of another celestial body in 1969 also come to mind, as does the fall of the Berlin Wall, a tribute to the airlift in 1948 in President Truman's administration and President Kennedy's endorsement of the hopes of "free men everywhere" as it is to anything or anyone else.

And then there is Election Day, 2008. Hope. Freedom. Renewal. Long lines of people in states where their vote has no real bearing on the outcome, wanting to be part of something. And they were. And we are on our way to becoming once again, the land of the free and the brave; the last best hope for mankind.


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