That explains so much

[baxil]

George W. Bush clearly grew up on a diet of endless John Wayne movies.

Then he became president, and put us in oneMission accomplished

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[hafoc]

I see a lot of The Usual Suspects on the political TV talking about how brilliantly Obama took away Clinton's nomination (or the one to which she and the political establishment assumed she was Entitled). They talk about how Obama built a movement, but ignore the fact that things were just the other way around. The movement built Obama.

The movement existed before he came on the scene. If Obama wasn't available it might even have been able to do something with corrupt, power-mad Hillary. You can never tell.

And while the people you cite have gone on about a wave of positive energy held back by the Bushies and finding its way to burst forth at last, might I also point out that there's a similar wave of science, technology, and cold, heartless, dispassionate FACTS all pent up by Bush, and every bit as ready to explode?

It seems the natrual thing for the grounded to oppose the spiritual, for Facts in their strange way to hinder Truth. Never before have I seen the spiritual, the scientific, the religious and secular philosophies, the Great Facts and the Great Truths, all pent up to such a high pressure-- and all trying with that pressure, borrowing the pressure of the other forces, all struggling to blow out in exactly the same direction. Let me tell you, Boss, something's gonna pop...