dear george,
you made it happen! the unmitigated evil of your putrid rule rose such a stench that even lifelong racists held their noses and supported barack obama. yes, george, you are responsible for scenes like the one described on fivethirtyeight.com, where a smiling white man told a canvasser “yup, i’m voting for the nigger” — and meant it.
last night my neighborhood exploded in joy and strangers hugged each other on the street, as if a long war had just ended, and i watched the final returns through tears: finally, tears of joy and not of despair or rage over stolen votes and the manipulations of a kangaroo court. this morning, in another first, i watched president O’s acceptance speech a second time. he gets it. he understands how to hold this country and this world together, not tear it apart as you have for the last eight years.
how did you do it, dubya? what magic did you use to catapult a nation known for nooses and lynchings into the arms of its first black president?
a couple of examples come immediately to mind. i don’t have time to list them all. it would take days. years. your ugly legacy.
you fabricated an entire mythology of WMDs and forced us into a disastrous and unnecessary war. did you know, george, that more than 650,000 iraqis — citizens as well as military — have been slaughtered since your invasion? more than half a million people murdered and an entire country blown to bits. for nothing. nearly 5,000 american soldiers dead and tens of thousands maimed for life. some may never get out of hellholes like walter reed, the so-called military hospital best known for its mistreatment of returning wounded vets. on your watch. with your blessing.
you forbade the use of federal funds in any program, domestic or international, that provided birth control or abortions. hell, you even sanctioned organizations that counseled women about these options, much less provided them. why does it matter so much to you? why would you rather see people die than use a condom? we’ll never know how many american girls and women could have avoided unwanted pregnancies and STDs without your interference. how many africans would not have died and continue dying from AIDs for lack of rubbers.
you actually approve of torture. APPROVE of it. i can’t quite get my head around it, george. i’d like to stand YOU on a milk crate and electrify your balls, like that (in)famous photo that came out of abu ghraib. well, no. actually i wouldn’t like to do that. i really can’t imagine torturing another human being, not even one as vile and hated as you. you’re not quite so picky. how many taxi drivers and goatherds are still trapped in guantanamo bay, gibbering in their lightless concrete cells with broken fingers and limbs and scars they didn’t have when they arrived? not even one conviction. not one.
did i say abu ghraib? did i say guantanamo bay? yes. on your watch. with your blessing.
you have lied to the american people whenever it suited you, and as you see we are pretty well fucking tired of it george, sick and tired of you and your cronies and minions, of your patriot act and your prying eyes. what does it say that the famously antichoice government is the same one eavesdropping on the intimate phone calls of its soldiers? like a bunch of impotent old men at a peep show, grunting and pulling; an ever-flaccid penis in a bespoke suit, dropping quarter after quarter into the slot.
i don’t believe you give a damn about any of it, of course. as much as you may dislike the thought of handing the reins to a democrat. at the end of the day it doesn’t affect your life in any way; you can just go back to the ranch and tend your millions. insulated.
i just went downstairs for a smoke and got a high-five from a stranger, a white woman walking down 116th street with a big stupid grin on her face. i knew why she was smiling, just as surely as i knew why people on the subway were crying on 9/11/01. we are as united now in joy as we were then in grief, and it’s all because of you, george bush. you made the election of barack obama not only possible, but inevitable.
and this country, finally, has something to thank you for.
sincerely,
jackie
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Don’t let the door hit you in the ass when you leave, Dubya.
Obama’s win is a bit bittersweet now with the approval of Prop 8 in California. A minority of right winged religions whackjobs (hello Mormon Church) decided this and stripped all those people of their rights. Bastards.
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I agree with every word but don’t forget all the other nations that followed blindly like sheep into Americas needless and pointless wars. He has their blood on his hands too.
Ant Harpers last blog post..Interview with Emma Jones of Enterprise Nation
Plenty to be angry about – I say – let’s put the anger behind us and get busy – we’ve got lots to do to make up for these 8 years. And lots to heal – I think that healing started last night,
Nan
As a citizen of one of the countries that supported the appalling Bush (Australia) I am very glad Obama got the job.
I long for the day when Australia will have the maturity to elect an aboriginal person as Prime Minister or appoint one as Governor General. That day seems a depressingly long time away.
My congratulations to the US. And hope Australia may consider following this example.
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Well put. I have a lot of R acquaintances that think the world just ended. I don’t understand why they would think Mac would have been any different
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Such a good post; it’s Obermann-special-comment worthy. I saw Dubya on the TV today, and was surprised to find that could actually watch without retching. “How odd,” I thought, but then I realized it’s because we stuck the figurative fork in him on Tuesday. Done! Thank you, Jesus.
1-Observers last blog post..And It’s About Damn Time
I saw a great sign someone was holding up that said “Bush, You’re Fired!” That was the case anyway, since he’d done his eight, but I loved the look of it. Meanwhile, I was terrified that he’d sign some executive order eliminating term limitations and attempt to dynastically rule forever. Don’t be surprised to see Jeb “South Beach” Bush or Neal “Keating 5″ Bush rearing their ugly heads in future elections.
Cheney’s gay daughter would be cool.
Brilliant letter … simply BRILLIANT!
George W. Bush will go down in history as the WORST president ever and he surely is making Saddan look pretty good.
I’m sure Nixon is quite grateful to George for all his lies!
Miss Gisele B.
I forgot to mention, I copied the graph about the federal fund ban re: birth control and abortion to Rachel Maddow’s list of what Obama should do first (credited this blog, of course). Not that this had anything to do with it, but I heard on NPR this morning that the ban’s headed for the axe.
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