A group of us from work met at a local Fox & Hound to say goodbye–and good riddance–to W. Most of us were liberals, natch, but we had one Bush-hating conservative among our number. We did this little thing where went around the table, and each of us offered up one thing about W that we weren’t going to miss. Our conservative comrade rattled off a laundry list of the former president’s various tramplings on the Bill of Rights. Another participant offered up his mangling of the language, and another his appointment of incompetent cronies. Me, I welcomed the return of science to the White House. With each item in our bill of particulars, we drank a new toast.
Toward the end of the evening, I mentioned that in my lifetime, I’ve not had a single great president. So we raised our glasses one more time, in the hopes that we have one now.
snurri summed up my feelings about today’s inauguration. What he said.
