Honestly now, everybody take a deep breath and reflect: a President who
Got us into what looks to be an endless war with an enemy that makes the Viet Cong look like a bunch of Franciscan monks, in a country that had nothing to do with 9/11 and had no WMD,
Failed to apprehend the real perp behind 9/11, and now freely admits he doesn’t even much care about him anymore,
Took the sympathy of the entire world, shat on it, and turned us into the pariah of the civilized world practically overnight,
Has a “spend-but-don’t-tax” fiscal policy that is sane only if your long-range goal is to “starve the beast”, i.e., bankrupt the federal government,
Savages the environment, lies like a rug, smirks, smears his opponents, jibbers, drools…
THAT President is elected to another four-year term. And please, let’s not talk about whether 1% of the vote cast was futzed with here, or 1.5% there – the election should’ve been a LANDSLIDE for his opponent, if said opponent was Spongebob Squarepants!
So, the question: did we jump the shark? Will we ever again be able to hold our head up in the Family of Nations, or have we proved once and for all that we forever belong at the childrens’ table… the sl-o-o-ow childrens’ table?
I think America has been going downhill since it got involved in the internal affairs of Vietnam. No, since we hounded American citizens for being member sof Communist organizations. No, since we threw all our industrial military might against Germany although it was Japan which attacked us. No, since we screwed up the global economy with irresponsible stock speculation. No, since we took it personally that Americans were killed traveling on ships of a belligerent nation in a war that didn’t involve us, so we suppported the enemies of the Kaiser. No, since we tried to suppress the native people of the Philipines. No, since we allowed Hearst to trick us into a war with Spain…
The election did not go the way you wanted. Grow up.
And they were right. Ronnie started us on the long, downward spiral into what we’ve become today: the mentally defective bully of the Western World. Who the hell could’ve imagined when the Gipper was first elected that we’d look back on poor old Bill Clinton, who gave us eight years of peace and unprecedented prosperity, as an aberration in a quarter-century-long slide?
Yes
Yes- return in 2006 and 2008 when saner heads prevail. Younger voters favor Democrats, so as the Pubbies die off and the younger generation swells, the demographics favor the Dems.
Back in the fifties
we produced half the world’s goods.
Now we don’t. Shark jumped.
Okay, but seriously. We have been seeing a relative decline in our economic power since the fifties, because the rest of the world has caught up. China has a billion people and has a growth rate of around 10 percent a year. Its just a matter of time.
Until the wall fell
there were two superpowers
now there is but one.
Seriously? There is and will continue to be something of a relative decline as American (and occasionally other) efforts to spread democracy through the world lead to increasing living standards for the world’s poor. In the 70’s and 80’s it was the Asian Tigers and Japan. Now it’s the former Eastern Bloc, 10 years from now it will be the current tyrannies of the middle east. But that’s a good thing. There’s no need to be the top dog (or at least no need to be top by a huge margin) when all the other dogs are good ones too.
Oh, I don’t know… seems to me, once the Scandanavian countries got that Viking thing out of their system they did okay… our newly-enticing neighbor to the north, Canada, doesn’t have a lot on its blotter… and, of course, most of the countries that were guilty of colonial excesses have already paid a pretty steep price, what with the blitzkrieg and all…
Anyway, that’s all beside the point. That was then. This is now. The finger we’ve just flipped to the rest of the world still stands rigid in their sight. Will they ever trust/forgive us again?
Bleu (blue…blew) liberal against a stark field of red,
The world crashes about you,
Yet stillness reigns through reality.
Puzzlement.
THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!!!
Wonder when we get our magic powers…and I didn’t notice any lightning bolts or anything when we chopped off the head of the last one in our way either.
Seriously? Well, I don’t know if we have jumped any sharks lately. I banged a bunny a few hours ago, but thats another matter. Er, what was the question again??
-XT
p.s. Sorry, drunk and slightly whimsical tonight…forgive.
