Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Eight Years Ago...

Whatever happened to "dissent is patriotic"? Look, I don't agree with his policies, and I will speak out about them if I believe they are leading the country in the wrong direction.

I assume all these people wanting everyone to be all sunshiny happy about today would also have told off these people on 1/20/01:
George W. Bush's motorcade lurched through the largest inaugural protests since Richard Nixon on Saturday, enduring thousands of protesters who hurled insults, bottles, tomatoes and an egg.

(source: "Inaugural protests biggest since 1973", Tulsa World, January 21, 2001)

Yes, he is my president. Yes, I'm praying for him, and for this country. No, I'm not terribly thrilled at present.

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