Raising a glass to W

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.

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