10 Years From Now, We Will All Look Back At The Bush Era and think...

[Bonobo]

Ok, I'll start:

I'll think, wow, if not for the Lord of the Rings movies, there would have been NOTHING to live for!

What will you think?

[cathandler]

1. that was some fucked up shit.

[dysfunctional press]

2. boy- those were the good old days...

i don't hold out much hope for our race, our society, and our the planet, even in the coming decade.

[bobthedrummer]

9. I concur, that's a distinct possibility a decade from today...

IMPEACH CHENEY FIRST-IMPEACH CHENEY NOW!

[lutefisk]

33. I think that's very likely. It's not just "peak oil." It's peak civilization

And Junior Bush with the "reverse Midas touch" was the one that rubbed our noses in it. I fear that this is as good as it's ever going to get...and not for much longer.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. ...How the hell did THAT happen?

[JMDEM]

4. I just hope we are still alive. NT

[liberal N proud]

5. That was 8 years of our lives wasted by a liar

[bluerum]

8. Many thousands of lives wasted. Many billions of dollars wasted.

These dimwits have set humanity back 100 years.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

6. It will be the first chapter of the story of California independence

starting with his ties to Enron and the following 8 years of "fuck you"

[El Supremo]

7. These events brought about great reform.

That we take for granted today.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

10. America is only as good as its keepers...

[Catherine Vincent]

11. 10 Years from now, we will all look back at the Bush era and think...

[DemGa]

12. If we're still here?

An alliance of corporations, religion, and sheer wing-nuttery -- Deceit, hubris, ineptitude, sociopathy. Never again.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

15. Mirroring

my unspoken thoughts...

[billyoc]

13. Wow, has he really been president for 18 years?

It seems like 19. (speaking from my cell)

[nadinbrzezinski]

32. That was my thought

excpet, wow he's been dictator for 18

[pscot]

14. If we had had a responsible president for those 8 critical years

something might have been done to mitigate the living hell that we now face.

[Jade Fox]

16. I'll be optomistic....

We will think, "That was the era that pushed us into making the United State a real democracy, not a democracy-as-long-as-it-doesn't-jeopardize-corporate profits. That was when we realized we must never take our freedoms for granted. That's when we realized we had to control those who control the information. That was when we broke up the Washington DC self-referential triad of Legislators, Media Pundits, and Political Advisers, and made the legislators understand they work for us!"

[nightrider767]

17. Remember when we had a house to live in..

with floors!!! Ahhh, that Brazilian cherry and the maple cabinets..... SIghhhh Lawns,, all green, as far down the block as you could see. And the Car! Yeeeoow!

And ten years later here we are in a post-economic-Apocalypse building rubber dog-shit for Chinese markets, living in mud-hut villiages...


Sorry I fear the next ten years more than I do the present. This guys legacy will be far from over when he leaves office.

[JohnnyLib2]

18. "....damn, we needed a viable military force...."

and, "how did we get more government employees in Baghdad than in Arlington, VA.?"

:shrug:

[lonestarnot]

19. Come on Swampie, you can eat it, I won't tell. Rats in the camp are so big you can pretend its a

burrito with cheese.

[RebelSansCause]

20. remember the good old days? when it was us against him?

not it's just me against everyone else. the 3 progressives left from DU against Demopublicans.

[dbt]

31. Make that the TWO Progressives.

I bailed on this place about three years ago.

:evilgrin:

[treestar]

21. Those days were insane

I would not have survived them without Democratic Underground.

[Democrats_win]

22. History suggests Americans are slaves to fear. We'll forget about bush and elect a Repuke.

Six years after Watergate we ended up with Reagan and his fear of the evil empire. Before that we had the fear-induced witch hunt known as McCarthyism. Yet the nation still voted for Nixon as the country was stuck on the fear of communism. It is remarkable how Americans forgot how truly evil and criminal the Republican party is.

Now our fear is terrorism with xenophobia coming on strong. "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." And our fear is literally our Achilles heel.

[JohnnyLib2]

26. Gulp. I have to agree, historically--

but hope we are both wrong! :hi:

[LeftHander]

23. Is he EVER going to leave office...??? nt

[Rosa Luxemburg]

24. He may still be there in 10 years watch out!

if Congress have been so lame about impeachment they desrve to get him 10 years later

[Island Blue]

25. By that time I wouldn't be at all surprised

if we were in the midst of Bush III - The Jeb Years. Never fear though, it will be Chelsea's turn next and all will be right with the world. :crazy:

[RufusTFirefly]

27. That was the beginning of the End

[eShirl]

28. "Hard to believe those were the GOOD old days compared to now..."

[SoCalDem]

29. How did this crew escape the gallows? n/t

[napi21]

30. Gee, wasn't it GREAT to finally see those f'ers behind bars! n/t