I actually feel somewhat sorry for these pitiable, little trolls; so filled with their sanctimonious, dark grumblings and all knowing cynicism. How sad that they can't take part in the national sense of relief and healing. Few, if any Obama supporters think that everything will instantly be fixed because of this election, but to not be able to note the obvious difference in the national spirit upon his inauguration is to admit that one's heart and consciousness has shrived to the same level as that of the previous occupant.

“If I can't dance - I don't want to be part of your revolution”

Bush is, as expected, Bush.

Colin Powell is at least an enabler of countless war crimes, if not directly culpable in the commission of war crimes. That makes him just as much a war criminal as Bush and Cheney and the rest of the this foul regime. That he's belatedly taken to attempting to burnish his image by distancing himself from the very policies that he consciously lied to advance doesn't change that fact. Of all of them, Powell's phony conversion sickens me the most. Of all of them, he was in the position to actually STOP the rush to war. He chose not to. You can call him a "good soldier", but "just following orders" wasn't a valid excuse at Nuremberg and it isn't in the case of the Bush Iraq war, either.

Well... perhaps so. I'm willing to entertain your take on Powell. I'm not so willing to let any half hearted asides or whatever "his heart wasn't in it" means to you to remove the hideous, obvious lying performance he turned in at the UN though. I still believe he could have actually stopped the war dead in its tracks if he had found the personal integrity to tell the truth at that point.

By the time he quit at the end of bush the small's 1st term, and certainly by the time he got around to endorsing Obama (very late in the game last year), the damage had been done and it cost him nothing.

Were I in charge of karma, Colin would be getting a sheaf of overdraft notices.

For one thing, saying that Bush is in any way responsible for us not being attacked since 9/11 is MORE of an indictment of his stewardship than the opposite. After all, he and his entire regime consciously ignored the many direct warnings that just such an attack was likely BEFORE it happened. The whole argument of "he kept us safe" is really a smokescreen to obscure that he DID NOT "keep us safe".

As for the rest of the sentiment... sure... there's been no big terrorist attack in this country since the HUGE terrorist attack that he didn't stop, but you can't prove a negative. Maybe Bush's dishonestly sold, incompetently executed foreign policy is responsible for that fact, maybe it's only made the matter worse. Either is a logical conclusion to draw and both are equally unprovable, if not unarguable. But crediting his ham handed, fumbling dishonesty with an unprovable contention is specious, at best.

He deserves every bit of the disrespect that he gets for the horrid job he did as president.... attack or no attack.

This is for something stinks....

The REAL reason that Barack Hussein Obama took the oath again is because he wanted to take the official oath on the Koran and dedicate it to Allah...

seriously!

You must investigate now!

hahahahaha

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Obviously the fears that humor would die without the Bushites to mock anymore were mistaken. The birth certificate nutcases will be with us always.

Serafin claims that Bush "kept us safe", but is woefully unaware of the basics of logic in claiming that. There's no way to connect anything the foul Bush regime did to the lack of a terrorist attack on our soil during his tenure. There is however ONE undeniable thing to connect the Bush regime to competence in keeping us safe from terrorism... a simple date.... September 11, 2001. In spite of many direct warnings bush DID NOT keep us safe on that date; a date when HE WAS RESPONSIBLE for "keeping us safe". So, the ONLY undeniably true statement one can make regarding the subject is that Bush was an abject failure in protecting this country from terrorism. Any other contention is pure speculation or conjecture.

Having lived through Nixxxon, Reagan, and Bush I was happy to vote for Obama, yet not really believing, in my heart, that he could really do that much, that fast. But... Damn! This old hippy fart is about ready to give up and start hoping and believing again. And only the second day in.

I'm happy. very happy

Let's not forget that we won, and won big. While Sarah makes a very inviting target of herself, and I don't really believe in cutting any of these people any slack, I think your admittedly humorous snarking is a bit of a pile on in this instance. You're risking making her a sympathetic figure.

... does pubpundit hate Amerikkka?