# Happy New Year.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-year/386268>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [January 1, 2007, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-year/386268 "2007-01-01T03:01:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2007, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-new-year/386268/21 "2007-01-02T00:41:23Z")

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[QUOTE=ltfire]  
With the Nation mourning Gerald Ford, the various news programs have been showing clips of his quotes.  
When they showed this…

“My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over”.

I flashed forward to November 4, 2008.  
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Even if the Democrats win (oh, yes, I sincerely hope they do!) – Bush is still there until the Presidential inauguration the following January, isn’t he? Even more lamer of a lame duck, but still there.

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