Reading about PRESIDENT OBAMA'S first day in office, particularly how he stressed that nutjob concept about public service, really hit the spot: "Public service is a privilege. It’s not about advantaging yourself. It’s not about advancing your friends or your corporate clients," Mr. Obama said. "It’s not about advancing an ideological agenda or the special interests of any organization. Public service is simply and absolutely about advancing the interests of Americans." Crazy, right?
But I will miss the Onion's Bush-bashing; those guys really went out on a high note with their weekly series of articles describing Dubya's near-death experiences, in increasingly bizarre and wishful ways. The peak, for me, came a couple weeks ago:
WASHINGTON—President Bush collapsed to the floor of the Oval Office during a meeting with advisers when spiderlings hatched from thousands of egg sacs affixed between the hemispheres of his brain, according to a White House memo released Monday. The spiders severed the president's corpus callosum and ate through the motor-control center of the brain, doctors said, causing Bush's body to jerk involuntarily as a scurrying mass of crab spiders emerged from his mouth and crawled down his face. Witnesses confirmed that a number of spiders also discharged from the president's tear ducts. Secret Service agents restrained the president and carried him to the White House medical facility, but doctors said that by the time Bush arrived, the arachnids had already consumed his corneas, pupils, and vitreous humor. Bush is resting comfortably at Bethesda Naval Hospital.
Also too, a big FUCK YOU to Chief Justice Roberts for messing up that oath of office, turning what was supposed to be a euphorically transcendent moment into an awkward one. You know he did that on purpose, just to be a dick.
I tortured myself til 4AM last night reading most of the 1400 (at the time) comments on the youtube oath of office vid. Just like a car crash, I couldn't look away. I was horrified but not surprised at how many of the posts were seething with unrepentant, offensive hate-speak. Much of it could've easily been the darkest KKK rhetoric from 60 years ago. Other posts defended Roberts, saying he was justifiably testing Obama to make sure he knew & understood the oath - because it's traditional to play mind games with incoming presidents on the podium. Oh my!
A corner may have been turned here, but we're not home yet. We're still sharing a country with innumerable ignorant dumbfucks. Not meaning to sound dismal, but I really hope the secret service has got their shit together. I grew up surrounded by racist fools & I know what they're capable of. They use their collective ignorance to create an impenetrable bubble of misguided logic/reality.
I'm hopeful for the big "O" but frightened as well.
Posted by: jaunty | 22 January 2009 at 12:11 AM