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(82,383 posts)terms in office.
peace frog
(5,609 posts)but even the worst of times come to an end, thank the gods.
Brimley
(139 posts)term, singular.
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)Soylent Brice
(8,308 posts)hibbing
(10,098 posts)KansDem
(28,498 posts)Aristus
(66,352 posts)"Bye-bye, asshole..."
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MuseRider
(34,109 posts)It remains one of my fondest political memories. I know it was one of the happiest political moments in my life. I felt so many bad things lifting as they lifted off the ground. It felt as good as watching Reagan leave and almost as good as watching Tricky Dick resign.
They are back, the bad feelings, but life does go on and small moments like the one you just posted are always treasured to look back on.
calimary
(81,264 posts)I remember hearing that song that day - emanating FROM THE CROWD.
From the CROWD!!! As that helicopter lifted off. You could hear it on TV, during the live coverage. People in that crowd saw and responded - just spontaneously breaking into song as that helicopter lifted off, carrying those detestable people away. I couldn't believe it! I was so proud, and happy - just the capper of a GREAT day when we were starting over with a NEW President - one for whom I'd voted and worked and donated! It felt like a huge release from a long, miserable, arduous hostage hold. I felt as though I'd just been released from jail or something. My son was there as a Presidential Scholar, and he called me about that - from there where the crowd was singing. He told me he sang along - and he knew I would approve! AND I DID!!!!!
What a great day - and a SUPER-GREAT moment, capping off a great day! Like a jumbo-sized hot fudge sundae with a cherry on top that was the size of a basketball!
Good on your son. One of the musician sons?
Yes, it was a great burden lifted from our souls that day. I have a few friends who think he will go down in history as one of the greatest. LOL, out of all my friends there are 2. Many who voted for him but they don't ever say a thing about him. Thankfully those 2 are only online friends who I adore as we do our mutual things but can't stand their politics nor them mine.
calimary
(81,264 posts)He's quite a little dude, that boy of mine.
eridani
(51,907 posts)Raine1967
(11,589 posts)We were way back -- near 9th street (?) -- in front of the Washington Monument and we ALL were singing that song!
Watching the flyover and him leaving was the breathtaking and wonderful.
BTW, His 'copter flew very low -- I bet he saw the crowds up close and the birds that were flying...
Liberalynn
(7,549 posts)calimary
(81,264 posts)Watching MSNBC and just thrilling to it all! Knowing our son was THERE on this MOST historic occasion, and knowing he was there to witness the inauguration of the first black President, but the moment we were formally RID OF bush/cheney. What a golden day!
MyOwnPeace
(16,926 posts)I watched it happen and I was SO thrilled, wishing I could be there to throw "the bird" at them as they slinked away like the snakes-in-the-grass that they were - NOT worthy of any "tribute" from a country that they had so badly "f**ked" up!
GoCubsGo
(32,083 posts)I was singing right along with them, too. I was watching on MSNBC. Somebody, Tweety, I think, was asking, "What are they singing?" That whole weekend was unforgettable, and yeah, it was like the sun coming out after years of darkness.
csziggy
(34,136 posts)Can't watch those enough!
Stardust
(3,894 posts)What a bright, bright sunshiney day.
calimary
(81,264 posts)Wouldn't surprise me if he thought they were cheering.
"... many of 'em think I can't read." YEAH, FUCK! You CAN'T read. You sure as hell couldn't read (or be bothered to read) the Presidential Daily Brief or anything, COULDJA????
He still infuriates me!!!
csziggy
(34,136 posts)You're right, he probably thought they were cheering FOR him.
Any time his face comes on the tube, I change channels. I can't stand to look at him or listen to him. Same thing for Jeb.
llmart
(15,539 posts)I only get a few channels because I have an antenna - not cable - and I try to catch the weather report. All three main channels had him and his stepford wife, Laura being interviewed at the "library". I felt that visceral disgust I always felt when seeing his ugly smug mug on TV and couldn't change the channels fast enough!
As we used to say when we were kids, good riddance to bad rubbish.
Schema Thing
(10,283 posts)LiberalAndProud
(12,799 posts)Thanks for the reminder.
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)Scruffy Rumbler
(961 posts)rurallib
(62,415 posts)for many years he will be the measure of the worst possible person ever to lead a democracy.
gateley
(62,683 posts)n2doc
(47,953 posts)and booing as it went by. Very satisfying moment.
lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)Don't let the Marine One door slap you on the ass.
tallahasseedem
(6,716 posts)My favorite moment as well!
hamsterjill
(15,220 posts)I remember that I felt "safe" again - after not feeling that way for eight, long years.
dickthegrouch
(3,173 posts)Blue Owl
(50,371 posts)Na na na na, Na na na na, Hey hey hey, GOOD BYE!
gvstn
(2,805 posts)You could hear the chant clearly on the news reports. Haha!
mnhtnbb
(31,388 posts)homegirl
(1,429 posts)I remember cheering and clapping as the helicopter left the ground. Like 10 tons had been lifted from my heart.
Stardust
(3,894 posts)mlevans
(843 posts)But I think I'll always have a certain fondness for the Segway incident.
lastlib
(23,226 posts)I remember a statement Anthony Lewis made about Nixon's departure--"nothing honored his office so much as his leaving it." or something to that effect, I don't recall it precisely. But it applies to Shrub as well.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)Wonder how he liked looking down to at least 500,000 middle fingers?
That Life-Fucker should be starved in the HAGUE.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,014 posts)here you go, enjoy!
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white cloud
(2,567 posts)SmittynMo
(3,544 posts)liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)Raine1967
(11,589 posts)It was amazing --
I cried -- I was so happy he was gone.
Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)Adios you pos!
rrneck
(17,671 posts)MillennialDem
(2,367 posts)That's after thousands maimed and killed in an illegal war and an economy in shambles.
SmittynMo
(3,544 posts)Jack Rabbit
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(34,582 posts)But then, he had a lifetime of practice doing that.
lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)gvstn
(2,805 posts)Someone put a montage of Bush/Katrina pics together to Pink Floyd's "Pigs on the Wing".
I could only find it at the WayBack Machine but for anyone interested: http://www.mediafire.com/?l1hcahgdzr1etsd
or http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.file83.com/Pigs_on_the_Wing.wmv
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)Wars are fine and dandy, as long as peons fight and die in them.
Samantha
(9,314 posts)I was rolling on the floor with laughter.
Sam
marble falls
(57,081 posts)Hubert Flottz
(37,726 posts)EvilAL
(1,437 posts)the first one almost got him.. Too bad.
Hubert Flottz
(37,726 posts)That man became an American hero that day.
Bush's 30% approval rating was highly overrated at that point.
Paper Roses
(7,473 posts)I think the words are 'good by, good riddance'.
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)"Don't worry. I'll keep on as many of your staff as I can. Your further surveillance proposals will be brought to bear, I promise. An - I was only kiddin' about Guantanamo. I'm gonna let the NEXT president deal with that hot potato! Maybe by 2016 they'll have all starved themselves to death and the problem will be solved. OH - and you and Dick and Rummy - don't worry, OK?"
panader0
(25,816 posts)he tried to exit through a locked door. The look on his face said stupid. I wish I could post it. Someone?
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)I didn't like the fact she was dragged across the street by three Arizona cops, arrested, handcuffed and taken downtown, but I felt that at least someone was doing something to show our displeasure.
RedstDem
(1,239 posts)was his best moment for sure.
Stewland
(163 posts)While I too applauded the Departure the evil ones I realize that there is little substantive difference between either Corporatist administration. Bush and Obama are bought and paid for by corporate interests. Obama really fooled many Ito thinking he was any different from Bush. Most of Bush's policies have been kept or expanded by Obama. It's great theater when both sides act as if there is a great divide between Obama and GOP when in fact they work for a very small and powerful segment of the population. Nothing meaningful will change as long as there is no campaign finance reform. Meet the new boss ,same as the old boss. Obama disappoints.
Hekate
(90,683 posts)... it'll make the flowers grow.
If you can't tell the difference between Bush and Obama, I don't think there's anything that can help you. Shame about that.
Stewland
(163 posts)It amazes me to see so many people who really believe that just because Obama is a Democrat then represents traditional democratic values,when in fact he is not your daddy's democrat. Problem is that today's democrats would be yesterday's republicans. This country has taken such a hard right turn in the last 30 years that today's democrats easily resemble the republicans of the late70's. To think that there is real substantive difference between Obama and the GOP is to have ones head buried very deeply in the place where the sun don't shine. For any true progress to be made on so any fronts we must dump both Dem's and GOP because they both stand in he way of progress on issues ranging from the environment to economics.
Whisp
(24,096 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)What a maroon!
AAO
(3,300 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)Mine are these and it will ALWAYS be the way I remember GWB and his gaggle of crooks.
Smooching his 'uncle'.
Limousine cowboy.
A moment of clarity.
A little man with a tiny mind and huge ego.
stateman
(1 post)My favorite memory of W is still out there, until he & Cheney and Company are tried for war crimes & torture.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)peace13
(11,076 posts)Yes and if we can dream it we can make it so!!!!!! Welcome to DU!
peace13
(11,076 posts)...crowd singing na na na na, na na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye..... So unscripted yet all in unison!
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)And that they will never return to the White House and that eventually they will be expunged from the House as well.
BarbaRosa
(2,684 posts)we don't miss you at all.
MotherPetrie
(3,145 posts)tclambert
(11,085 posts)taking them into custody charged with multiple counts of war crimes.
Wait, did I imagine that part?
Mira
(22,380 posts)One of my life's absolute PEAK experiences.
Good riddance to bad rubbish. Can't believe he is still free and unaccountable.
That's one of my life's absolute darkest miseries.
LostOne4Ever
(9,288 posts)Hekate
(90,683 posts)Apparently Keith has some Issues when it comes to the workplace, I get that. But when he was good, he was very very good.
Stardust
(3,894 posts)MichiganVote
(21,086 posts)gateley
(62,683 posts)SheilaT
(23,156 posts)he was in power for 8 years! And that Obama did that crap about looking forward, not back, so no indictments, no arrests, no accountability.
How about if every single criminal were to go in front of a judge and say, "Well, even if I did those terrible things, we should look forward, not back." Those two sad sacks in Boston did a tiny fraction of the damage that Bush & Company did. But guess who will probably spend the rest of his life in jail, when certain Republicans continue to live in luxurious freedom.
hay rick
(7,611 posts)Love that you labeled the Boston brothers "sad sacks." Your patriotic paranoia is clearly underdeveloped!
grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)johnp3907
(3,731 posts)....where the dog shoulda bit ya.
geckosfeet
(9,644 posts)Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)for millions of us. I'll never forget it.
kenny blankenship
(15,689 posts)remember those?
BootinUp
(47,144 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)proud patriot
(100,705 posts)I liked all the ones of him bonking his head on Marine 1.... DERP !
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)Samantha
(9,314 posts)I guess there would be copyright issues to be settled ... but if Jeb should run, someone selling a like tee-shirt would rake in. The shirts would be EVERYWHERE. And of course, I would have to receive a complimentary shirt (first off the line) for the idea.
Sam
Initech
(100,075 posts)grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)Oops
Martin Eden
(12,867 posts)If he dies before that happens, I'll be bitterly disappointed.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)This one is my second favorite.
Mopar151
(9,983 posts)"You won't have no name, when you ride the big airplane
And be known by no name except Deportee"
DesertDiamond
(1,616 posts)The best day of his Residency and one of the happiest moments of my life.
teamster633
(2,029 posts)I'm standing in the middle of the desert
Waiting for my ship to come in
But now no joker, no jack, no king
Can take this loser hand
And make it win
---Sheryl Crow
Leaving Las Vegas
Frank Cannon
(7,570 posts)I feel bad for poor Barney, but this is an amazing image. Everything from the way everyone is posed to the expressions on their faces makes it look just like a Norman Rockwell painting.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Gabby Hayes
(289 posts)Bet you can't last 15 seconds into the twins' chortle-rama
Tab
(11,093 posts)(Bush comes out about 1:48)
olegramps
(8,200 posts)But, I hold out hope about Cheney.