This Land Was Made...

... For You and Me

Today is it. The last full day.

Eight long years of incompetence, arrogance, greedy and dangerous leadership is finally ending.

Unlike some Americans out there who will shed a tear when that final helo flight takes Bush and his family for that last flight to Texas, I am certain that many, many more tears will be shed by those celebrating the fact that the flight is even taking place.

These guys say it best. And they said it yesterday in celebratory joy:



Like so many others, I hope, I wish, that tomorrow begins anew what is best about our nation. A collective striving towards our better angels. A belief that we can and will improve ourselves, our children and our neighbors. A common dream of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And a return to a foreign policy that our last crisis President called for in his first inaugural address:

"the policy of the good neighbor—the neighbor who resolutely respects himself and, because he does so, respects the rights of others—the neighbor who respects his obligations and respects the sanctity of his agreements in and with a world of neighbors."

Most of all, I want my government to invert what Scott Horton describes as his epitaph for the Bush Years - Augustine's question - "Remota itaque iustitia quid sunt regna nisi magna latrocinia? (If it does not do justice, what is the government but a great criminal enterprise?)" I want our government to return to what government's do - deliver justice.

Then we can truly sing again, "this land was made for you and me."