Fella could get downright morose watching the US go in the tank, thanks to our buds on the Bushite bench. Fella could start thinking real hard about emigration. Or political mayhem. Even the odd assassination.
Fella needs to get a life, take a real look at this torture nonsense, and all the other bullshit GW and company have given us in the past almost six years. Fact is, it's politics. And politics is ugly, always has been, always will be. Let's not get all teary about the US' past: we've been hip-deep in way bad shit over and over again, starting with the amazing level of mutual sliming that took place among our founding fathers --- read McCullough on John Adam --- continuing through the regimes of some very nasty pieces of work in the 19th and 20th centuries. We're just starting the 21st extra bad, which maybe means it truly is renewal time.
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