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Changing of the guard

Any regular reader of this blog will know how immensely relieved I am that, at long last, the odious Bush Administration has ended. Most of you probably share this feeling, though I'd hope to have at least a few readers from across the spectrum.

I have a sufficiently oppositional personality that I have come to feel, at a minimum, cynical and sarcastic (and often more than that) regarding every Administration since Johnson. Although I recognized Clinton's virtues as well as his vices, I remember hoping, when G.W. Bush was elected, that at last I'd be able to achieve a more positive view. (I had recognized Bush Senior's virtues as well as vices, and was hoping for something not too dissimilar.) And despite the immediately recognizable insanity of say, Bush's 2001 tax and budget policies, it was well into 2002 or even 2003 before I fully grasped who these people were. Slow on the uptake, I guess. But I really had trouble believing just how completely lacking in the most elementary decency, honesty, rationality, good faith, competence, or belief in the rule of law the people running the Bush Administration would prove to be.

THIS time, I really am hoping for something a lot better, however.

Full post as published by Start Making Sense on January 20, 2009 (boomark / email).