That's our fearless leader for ya.

It would me more interesting if someone could find 42 reasons why we will miss PB.

...crickets chirping...

Of course it would be 42 reasons. That's the answer to life, the universe, and everything. LOL

Has we really been suffering for eight years now?

Why did we put up with this for so long?

That was hit right on the nail...

Because we keep thinking that it can't get any worse, and he keeps proving us wrong.

“I’m the commander — see, I don’t need to explain — I do not need to explain why I say things. That’s the interesting thing about being president.”

*headdesk*

3931 American reasons I won't miss him. Iraqi dead count for me as well. I need to scrurry off and find totals for them as well.


My list grows daily sometimes

America has never been a Democracy, it was originally a Republic, but it has become a Despotism over the years.

Rise and Fall of World Civilizations

How Long Do We Have? This is rather thought provoking.

About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh , had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some
2,000 years earlier:

"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government."

"A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury."

"From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship."

"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years."

"During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:

1. from bondage to spiritual faith;
2. from spiritual faith to great courage;
3. from courage to liberty;
4. from liberty to abundance;
5. from abundance to complacency;
6. from complacency to apathy;
7. from apathy to dependence;
8. From dependence back into bondage"

Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.

It has become a little tired and cliche to criticize Bush this way, sort of like the "he didn't actually win the election!" refrains we hear so much.

Still, entertaining

Im glad he is going. I just find this a bit weird how he is big oil, and everything he does is big oil. And now oil is rolling in cash like you wouldnt believe.

Is anybody...... hoooooooooome?

You're right. We should impeach him so we don't have to deal with it for another year.

So interesting, this is exactly what we were talking about with my wife yesterday. How good it is that the president is actually elected by the Electoral College, not by popular vote, this might give eventually some leverage against the usual course of events.

As much sense as that makes, it seems to be fake

Awww, dammit! It DOES make sense and I never thought to check snopes on it.

Thank you Hyper, I do love your input and posts!

If it does hold true, I think we are close to bondage....

There was another one.....I will have to see if I can find it.

It went...Colony, republic, statehood,...etc etc...but went right back to the beginning.

/goes to google.

I didn't think to check snopes either. I was looking for the full text of what you posted because it looked like something I wanted to read and snopes came up on google.

*blushes*

Colony, Confederation, Republic, Nation-State, Empire, Colony...