Eight…
A nice find courtesy of AmericaBlog,
David Letterman’s Top Ten Moments from the Bush Years:
Eight more days…
Category: Politics
Nine…
OK, it may look like 9 and a half fingers, but it’s meant to be just ‘nine’, as in the number of days left until Bush is gone. The hands in the photo are mine, from a blog post I wrote more than four years ago about the nine trick. Then it was about math, today I’m just plain counting down.
10 More Days
We can do it now on two hands… count down the days until the end of an error. It’s been a long, terrible, painful wait… and now at last, the end is in sight.
Let’s count it down…. 10!!
Bodysurfing President Elect
Try and imagine any former President bodysurfing. You can’t can you, the images just don’t mesh. Now watch this video. You can’t help but feel good knowing our next President can do this. Who will be the lucky Secret Service body surfing detail? Nice wave Mr. President!
thanks to Neal for sharing!
20 Days
At last! We can count the remaining days of the Bush Presidency on our fingers and toes!
Take a look at this goodbye from Tom Tomorrow (it’s worth jumping through Salon’s advertising hoop to reach the comic)…
Scrap the Inaugural Invocation
Anyone who follows politics can’t have missed the current uproar over the announcement that Pastor Rick Warren will deliver the Invocation at President Elect’s Inauguration next month.
Rick Warren is some kind of mega-pastor with whom I was unfamiliar until the point of the campaign that he was able to command McCain and Obama to come and kiss his butt at a campaign forum hosted by Warren. I was embarrassed for both of them for having to do so.
I’ve read arguments both for and against Warren’s selection to deliver the invocation. GLBT advocates are understandably upset that such an advocate of the hateful Prop. 8 anti gay marriage bill in California should be invited to speak at the inauguration of the President for whom expectations of tolerance is so high. While the Obama folks say they are demonstrating that they can be civil to those with whom they disagree.
My personal feelings favor those who oppose his involvement. Obama’s supporters deserve better than this, and certainly a better message would be sent through the participation of a more tolerant individual to give the invocation.
But there is a better solution. Don’t include an invocation in the inaugural ceremonies at all. Let’s keep religion, any and all of them, out of our civic lives. I’d be very glad to hear our new President begin his term by telling all American’s what his plans are for addressing our many problems, and there’s no need to first listen to some doofus call out to the invisible man for help.
And for that matter, leave the bible out of it too. Put your hand on a copy of The Constitution while you vow to preserve, protect and defend it.
I’m A Lefty And I Like Obama’s Pick Of Rick Warren
NPR.org, December 18, 2008
Obama’s Inaugural Mistake
The Washington Post, December 19, 2008
Today in History – The Bill of Rights
On this day in 1791, Virginia ratified the Bill of Rights, becoming the 11th State to do so, and thus reaching the required 75% of states needed to ratify to make these first 10 amendments part of the Constitution. Well done founding fathers!
I recently read a great book about the drafting of the Constitution, Miracle at Philadelphia. There are many facts about our government that we learn and just take for granted, such as the formulas for representation in the House and Senate, and the inclusion of a ‘Bill of Rights. This book provided a fascinating look at the sausage making that took place as the Constitutional Convention WAY over-stepped their mandate by creating a whole new form of government, and how close they came to failing. Thanks to James Madison for taking such good notes during the process.
In 35 Days we’ll say good bye and good riddance to a President who has utterly failed in his job requirement to ‘preserve and protect The Constitution of the United States of America’. Thankfully, hopefully, the damage he’s done can be undone, and America will have learned how easily a government can undermine our guiding principles, and how vigilant we must remain to prevent it from happening.
40 Days
50 Days
50 Days! It sounds so wonderful to say, just 50 Days left until Bush’s last day in office. What a painfully long eight years it has been.
I have been in the midst of a MAJOR blog lull, I haven’t even posted in this category since the countdown was at 200 Days on the 4th of July. But the lull wasfor good reason. I was busy doing all I could to help elect that man who will replace Bush (and inherit the tremendous mess that he made), and was also training for a marathon (more on that later).
Getting through the election season was like a marathon itself, and happy each ended well. Eight years contains 2,920 days. Now there’s just 50 left. You do the math, but if compared to the 26.2 miles of a Marathon, we’re just inches from the finish line!
