Your title reminds me of yet another theme song for Bush's departure: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEDGgXYFFAM
Go away Wont you just go away Go away Dont you come back one day Take your stuff Take all of your precious things Leave right now Who knows what tomorrow brings Stay away Wont you please stay away Live your life But live it real far away Save yourself Theres no way to get it all Look around The writing is on the wall And when you go I wont miss you at all And when you go Ill be having a ball You will see Thoughts of you Wont ever cross my mind Its the truth Dont mean to be unkind cause people have the right To party And you wont let them Have their fun See ya, wouldnt wanna be ya Auf wiedersehen, au revoir, shalom Go away Would you please go away Go away Youre outta here come what may Hit the road Dont bother to say goodbye Dont care how Dont even matter why Yes, people have the right to party And were not waiting till youre gone Ciao, bye bye, hasta la vista Fare thee well,adios, so long http://www.lyricsfreak.com/g/gloria+estefan/go+away_20060703.html On Jan 19, 7:21 am, "liberal mike532 !" <[email protected]> wrote: > The Long, Lame Goodbye of G W . for Gods sake just go away > !http://www.nytimes.com:80/2009/01/18/opinion/18dowd.html?th&emc=th > As Barack Obama got to town, one of the first things he did was seek > the counsel of past presidents, including George Bush senior. > > As W. was leaving town, one of the last things he did was explain why > he never sought the counsel of his father on issues that his father > knew intimately, like Iraq and Saddam. > > When Brit Hume did a joint interview last week with Bush father and > son, dubbed “41st guy” and “43rd guy” by W., the Fox anchor asked > whether it was true that “there wasn’t a lot of give and take” > between > them, except on family matters. > > “See,” the Oedipally oddball W. replied, “the interesting thing is > that a president has got plenty of advisers, but what a president > never has is someone who gave him unconditional love.” > > He talks about his father, the commander in chief who went to war > with > Saddam before he did, like a puppy. “You rarely have people,” he > said, > “who can pick up the phone and say, ‘I love you, son,’ or, ‘Hang in > there, son.’ ” > > Maybe he wouldn’t have needed so many Hang-in-there-sons if he had > actually consulted his dad before he ignorantly and fraudulently > rammed into the Middle East. > > When W. admits the convoluted nature of his relationship with his > father, diminishing a knowledgeable former president to the status of > a blankie, you realize that, despite all the cocky swagger we’ve > seen, > this is not a confident man. > > That is vividly apparent as we watch W. and Obama share the stage as > they pass the battered baton. One seems small and inconsequential, > even though he keeps insisting he’s not; the other grows large and > impressive, filling Americans with cockeyed hope even as he warns > them > not to expect too much too soon. > > Even Obama’s caution — a commodity notably absent from the White > House > for eight years — fills people with optimism. > > W. lives in the shadow of his father’s presence, while Obama lives in > the shadow of his father’s absence. W.’s parlous presidency, spent > trashing the Constitution, the economy and the environment, was bound > up, and burdened by, the psychological traits of an asphyxiated and > pampered son. > > The exiting and entering presidents are opposite poles — one the > parody of a monosyllabic Western gunslinger who disdains nuance, and > one a complex, polysyllabic professor sort who will make a decision > only after he has held it up to the light and examined it from all > sides. > > W. was immune to doubt and afraid of it. (His fear of doubt led to > the > cooking of war intelligence.) Obama is delighted by doubt. > > It’s astonishing that, as banks continue to fail and Americans > continue to lose jobs and homes, W. was obtuse enough to go on TV and > give a canned ode to can-do-ism. “Good and evil are present in this > world,” he reiterated, “and between the two of them there can be no > compromise.” > > He gives the good-and-evil view of things a bad name. Good and evil > are not like the Redskins and the Cowboys. Good and evil intermingle > in the same breath, let alone the same society. A moral analysis > cannot be a simplistic analysis. > > “You may not agree with some of the tough decisions I have made,” he > said Thursday night. “But I hope you can agree that I was willing to > make the tough decisions.” > > Actually, no. His decisions have been, for the most part, disastrous. > If he’d paid as much attention to facts as fitness, 9/11, Iraq, the > drowning of New Orleans, the deterioration in Afghanistan and the > financial deregulation orgy could have been prevented. > > Bush fancied himself the Decider; Obama fancies himself the Convener. > Some worry that a President Obama will overdo it and turn the > Situation Room into the Seminar Room. (He’s already showing a > distressing lack of concern over whether his cherished eggheads bend > the rules, like Tim Geithner’s not paying all his taxes, because, > after all, they’re the Best and the Brightest, not ordinary folk.) > > W., Cheney and Rummy loved making enemies, under the mistaken > assumption that the more people hated America, the more the Bushies > were standing up for principle. But is Obama neurotically reluctant > to > make enemies, and overly concerned with winning over those who have > smacked him, from Hillary and Bill to conservative columnists? > > If W. and Cheney preferred Fox News on the TVs in the White House > because they liked hearing their cheerleaders, Obama may leave the > channel on Fox because he prefers seducing and sparring with > antagonists to spooning with allies. > > Right now, though, it’s a huge relief to be getting an inquisitive, > complicated mind in the White House. > > W. decided there was no need to be president of the whole country. He > could just be president of his base. Obama is determined to be > president of as much of the country as possible. > > We’re trading a dogmatic president for one who’s shopping for a dog. > It feels good --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. 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