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Make sure you wave so we can see you.
My friend just had his picture taken on the inaugural platform. So jealous!
Attention world:
This is how we change leadership.
Not with riots, not with coups, not with insurrections, not with force. The old leader departs to honored retirement (mostly) after helping the new leader have as smooth a transition of power. Parties and positions and policies are irrelevant at this time. No matter how much the new leader excoriated the old one, even when the new leader has defeated the old one directly, (1992, 1980, 1976), we do things right.
We have done the impossible (institutionalized rebellion), and that makes us mighty. (Hat tip to Joss Whedon there.) It is a very large factor of why we have been so successful as a nation, and why we will continue to be so successful.
Today is a good day for some, based on their politics. It is a bad day for some, based on their politics.
But far more important, dwarfing such petty concerns, it is a great day for us as a nation.
Thank you, President Bush. And good luck, President Obama.
J.
Attention world: This is how we change leadership.
Yes, because no one, anywhere else in the world, has figured out how to this. If it weren’t for the example America is setting right now in the peaceful transfer of power, no one else would know what to do with themselves. In fact, when it comes to vote-counting, I suspect we do it somewhat worse than other mature democracies.
Not to rain on your parade, Jay Tea, but don’t cross the line between pride in one’s country and sounding clueless about the rest of the world.
What does Tyro have against Al Franken?
This is how we change leadership.
In the Fatherland. In Iraq, the U.S. trumsp up a bunch of bullshit to change leadership (and get at all that yummy oil!). In Venezuela the U.S. supports coups to oust leaders the U.S. disfavors. How’d those work out, by the way?
We’ve got our country back. Feels damn good.
We’ve got our country back.
Many of us never gave it up. Asshat.
No, but you fucked it up beyond measure. And now your time is over. America has kicked you to the curb and potentially great men and women are taking charge.
Stay classy, Republicans.
“Ex-President Bush” At last.
The primary theme of his speech is personal responsibility and the respect for law. With a respect for hard, actual work.
America wins. We’re back.
Hooray! We don’t have to pretend to be Canadian anymore!
This is how we change leadership.
Not with riots, not with coups, not with insurrections, not with force.
If only we’d known that 5 years ago.
Don’t feel too bad, Duros. That’s the way our system works — we all get a chance to be the winner and the loser. Since 1960 (just to pick an arbitrary date), Democrats have won six times and Republicans seven times.
Rumor has it that Rush Limbaugh, staying in the White House just as the first Bush administration was winding down, left a note saying “we’ll be back” or words to that effect. And eight years later, the Republicans were back.
Now they’re out. The Democrats have all the marbles.
Until they screw it up and the people toss THEM out again.
How will it turn out in the end?
To quote Dr. Jon Osterman, “it never ends.”
J.
Has anyone seen the clue stick?
Speaking of personal responsibility and hard, actual work. I forwarded a buddy of mine who is still in recruiting a list of names of people who had told me they’d never join the Army while Bush was in office. Well, he’s out now, Obama is in. I have no doubt that all those Democrats and Liberals who spent 7 years telling me to “fuck off” will now be more than happy to man up and live up to their responsibilities as US Citizens.
Woot! 150% available strength here we come! Yes We Can!
Woot! 150% available strength here we come! Yes We Can!
SFC B, seriously? This what you’re going with? Now liberals don’t have any excuses not to sign up for the military?
I am going to assume that all the conservative excuses for not signing up to fight under Bush will remain the same.
Hey, way to go SFC. It’s working!
Fafaroo, you have no idea how many times, when speaking with someone, they would swear up and down, on pain of death, that the only reason they wouldn’t not join the military (not just the Army) was because of Bush. Not because of the risk of going to war and dying and all that, but because of who the Commander in Chief was at the time. Even in my final year of recruiting, when I could say with 100% confidence that Bush would not be their commander in chief by the time they completed training and were a fully ready Soldier, still would have “Nope, hate Bush” as their mantra.
Well, that time is over.
It’s not like any of them will actually change their mind and join (barring them being unemployed now or some other signifigant emotional event). But, really, it does brighten your day as a recruiter when you get the chance to really punk-out someone whose mom should have swallowed.
Honestly though, it’s a volunteer service. When I was still recruiting I really didn’t care why you didn’t want to join. All I did was talk to the next person and ask them if they wanted to.
Quaker, I’m curious if there is something wrong in the numbers put out by DoD. It says the Army accessed 860 new Soldiers, but the Army Reserve accessed 3,335. 860 RA acessions is about what you’d expect for a single brigade, not for the entire recruiting command.
Curious.
But, really, it does brighten your day as a recruiter when you get the chance to really punk-out someone whose mom should have swallowed.
And gosh, if removing the last excuse liberal traitors had for not dying in Iraq doesn’t brighten one’s day, making graphic sexual references about their mothers is certainly an awesome way to enjoy one’s lunch hour.
SFC B, so how about all those conservative republicans who told you that they’d sign up in a heartbeat if only they weren’t so desperately needed on the “home front” as a blogger?
I does lighten the heart doesn’t it? “Your mom should have swallowed” is the sort of insult which just cuts so many ways. It demeans someone’s birth, and makes naughty allegations about their mother. A twofer!
The only person to ever tell me they were a conservative Republican who’d sign up in a heartbeat but couldn’t because of his service-related disability, and thus ineligible. But if he didn’t have a bad ticker he’d have been happy to sign-up again. Those Vietnam vets are tough and how they were treated upon their return was shameful.
SFC B, I’m beginning to wonder, did you just get released from cryogenic ice?
You sound like a conservative moron circa 2003, rehashing all the old crap: 9-11 was Clinton’s fault! Libruls are pussies! Suck on this Jane Fonda!
Did no one tell you, on awakening, that the eight year conservative suckfest is over? That the crap you were pushing then has since been roundly exposed and rejected?
We’ve all run through this crap before, man. You lost.
Welcome to the present — and the future.
“conservative moron”? I prefer to think of myself as a social libertarian, fiscal conservative, and a security hawk. I have never said that 9-11 was Clinton’s fault. I have said, spread over many comments, that if you’re going to say that Bush is to blame for 9-11, then you must hold Clinton accountable as well because of what happened over his administration concerning Al Qaeda. If asked, I actually spread such blame over everyone between Bush II and Carter. But I’ve threadjacked enough.
May President Obama have an uninteresting term.
I prefer to think of myself as a social libertarian, fiscal conservative, and a security hawk.
Gee? Really? I never would have guessed. So do most conservative morons. Trust me. You are not at all unique.
Like I said, SFC B, we’ve been through all this countless times before over the last eight years. Your side lost.
Get used to it.
I am unique. Just like everyone else.
We have sides now? I thought we were past partisan politics now and in an era of newfound cooperation and unity. Saying that my side “lost” is sure cynical, and I know the new First Lady has told me that the New President won’t allow you to cynical anymore.
Dude Fafaroo, get with the program man! Stop thinking of a two-sided world! We’re no longer in a zero-sum game with winners and losers! It’s like youth league soccer! We’re all winners!
Where’s my trophy and pizza damnit.
SFC B, I don’t know why I thought you were frozen by NRO in 2003. Obviously, you’re fresh out of their cloning vats.
That humor gene is still giving them trouble, I see.
I thought we were past partisan politics now and in an era of newfound cooperation and unity.
Now that we’ve agreed that your ideas have failed and we have to fix the mess we’re left with, sure.
There’s a lot of attempts for the hardened, most stubborn, most doctrinaire, most untyhinking right-wingers to try to “take possession” of this moment. To claim, somehow, that it belongs to them. That, somehow, they played a role. That when they were voting to support torture in 2004 and claiming that Obama was a Marxist Islamofascist who was going to herald a part in turning America into a socialist worker’s paradise that they are part of this day. That when they praise the “peaceful transfer of power,” they’re somehow doing something great. To which I say, paraphrasing Chris Rock, this: “What do you want? A cookie? That’s what you’re supposed to do you low expectation having motherf—er!”
This was the triumph of the American people over their darker nature. What that means is we reject that darker nature, SFCB’s nature and Jay Tea’s nature, in favor of our better ones.
No more American soldiers should die for a mistake in Iraq. If one could enlist with the understnading that they’d go to Afghanistan, then maybe.
Somewhere in a cave, OBL is crapping his pants. #44
Really?