“My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.” Gerald R. Ford had no way of knowing how much more profound those words would be today than when he uttered them in 1974. Barack Obama would have been more than entitled to repeat them, but true to style his eye is on the future. I am giddy with relief that my paranoid delusion of a neocon coup attempt was wrong, compounded by the fact that Bush’s successor is not merely a replacement but a genuinely better man in every respect. America’s dark future in the Twenty-first Century boded by eight years of Bushdom now yields to the bright promise of hope mandated by We the People.
“Forty-four Americans have now taken the presidential oath. The words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of peace. Yet, every so often the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms. At these moments, America has carried on not simply because of the skill or vision of those in high office, but because we the people have remained faithful to the ideals of our forebears, and true to our founding documents. So it has been. So it must be with this generation of Americans.”
--Barack Obama January 20, 2009
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