How We Are Over the Evil Bush Years and On to Peace and Prosperity Under Obama

President Barack Obama has done away with the old George W. Bush regime to usher in a new Era of Good Feelings, peace and prosperity.

I am glad George W. Bush is no longer president of the United States. Now that we have Barack Obama in office, I can rest peacefully, knowing full well that all of the great abuses of the old regime have been replaced.

I'm glad the news media's on Obama's side.
Frankly, listening to the media whine and grumble under every move Bush made was a bit tiresome. Every day it was gloom this and doom that. With the news media firmly in Obama's camp, we are no longer subjected to such horrific stories about the end of the world. We are much better off not having the news media tell us how bad off we are.

I'm glad we're done with Bush's billion dollar deficit.
The Democrat Congress under Bush cried and screamed and beat their collective breast in aguish over the mounting Bush deficit. It was good to hear that fiscal responsibility was the order of the day. We heard their cries and we now have a more fiscally responsible Congress which understood that the only way out of Bush's billion dollar debt was to pass a trillion dollar stimulus. Despite what the numbers say, we've practically halved the debt burden by means of our vastly stimulated and growing economy.

I'm glad unemployment is down.
Under Bush, we mistakenly gauged unemployment by how many people were out of work. Bush could never seem to do any better than about five and a half percent unemployment. As we've come to find out, it's not the unemployment index but government-created, potentially employed that matter most. Without government job creation, we're dead in the water, as Obama has pointed out. Thankfully he's created several thousand government jobs on the path to our recovery. Otherwise, I might be worried at the rapidly rising unemployment statistic. It's all good as long as Obama's creating new jobs and figures unemployment by projecting job creation.

I'm glad we have no more huge corporations telling government what to do.
Big corporations just pushed Bush around and told him what to do. Obama's fixed that problem once and for all. Who says that government can't run GM or AIG every bit as good as the old, outdated management and greedy CEOs? I rest easier knowing that corporations now have to bow to government's authority instead of the other way around. Corporations will run so much more efficiently without having to deal with capitalistic urges.

I'm glad we no loger have an energy crisis.
Bush single-handidly created an energy crisis through his long addiction to oil. (In fact, I understand he used to shoot up at least twice a day using a borrowed needle.) Now with Obama, the oil crisis is over. We no longer need to worry about drilling for new sources of oil here in the US, especially since we are best buddies with Iraq, Iran and Saudi Arabia. We also have all the oil refineries we need and alternative energy is just around the corner waiting for us to use it.

I'm glad the war on terror is over.
Bush certainly got us into a big mess with the war on terror. Now that Obama's in office and the war's over, we no longer have any worries about al-Qaida or the Taliban. The Taliban have been completely contained by Pakistani forces and no longer pose any threat in Pakistan or, especially, Afghanistan. Bush could never seem to find Osama bin Laden, so ignoring him is the best policy. Obama's also made it clear that our distrust of Hamas was misplaced. Iraq is now completely stable and all of our troops are on their way home even as I write.

And Guantanamo? Bush certainly mishandled it. He made the US a lot of enemies by detaining a few, peace-loving Muslims in that festering, rat hole. Now that Obama's declared that he will release the detainees, life is good and the Muslim world is now on our side. In fact, just saying that we're closing down the old place makes me feel a lot better, whether we actually close it down or not. That's certainly better policy than Bush ever came up with.

I'm glad we're a kinder, gentler government.
Bush took power and abused it by duping the American people to allow anti-terrorism laws and to create a Department of Homeland Security. Now that Obama's in office, the abuses have all disappeared and Obama has given up all that executive power that made Bush so dangerous. We no longer suffer any abuses of domestic spying, military tribunals, wiretaps, phone intercepts, or preditor assassinations. Janet Napolitano is right on top of terrorism. Since we are now a secure nation under a competent leader, we can even give up our interests in Afghanistan and Iraq. We had no busines being there in the first place.

I'm glad we have no corruption in government.
The Bush administration was repleat with corruption. Hardly a day passed when we didn't hear some new intrigue. With Obama, however, we no longer have to worry about corruption. In fact, if it weren't for the occasional Republican, like Mark Sanford, the news agencies would have no stories of corruption to report. We've clearly misunderstood the intent and actions of such good people as Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, John Murtha, Tom Daschle, or Timothy Geithner. President Obama really had nothing to do with the group formerly known as Acorn and we've successfully gotten rid of lobbyists.

I'm glad the climate change crisis is over.
One of the main reasons we sweated under George W. Bush was because of his anti-earth global warming policies.Obama's brought more than hope and change to politics, he's also brought a change in the global warming crisis. Al Gore has stopped jetting all across the planet to tell us we're doomed. The crisis is over. If that wasn't sufficient enough, Obama's new cap and trade tax will certainly push us back into the green. I, for one, am looking forward to paying around $3,700 more a year in taxes because I know Barack Obama will put them to good use in protecting our environment.

I'm glad the world now loves the US.
When Bush was in office, you could almost hear the cries of "Death to the US Empire" drifting across the ocean from all points across the globe. Those voices, thankfully, have been stilled through the sheer willpower and amiable graces of Obama. Since Obama flew around the world to apologize for the US, world opinion has markedly increased to favor us. If Bush had not been such a hard-liner, we could have enjoyed countless years of peace among all nations, especially with those which seemed to hate us the most: Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, or Cuba. We can observe a new carefree existence by watching how unconcerned Obama is during times of supposedly peak crises. Threats from North Korea? Obama's taking his wife out on another great date to New York. Iran's falling to pieces? Obama still has time for an ice cream cone with the kids.

I'm glad there's no more axis of evil.
Bush really screwed things up by alienating three terrific governments like Iraq, Iran and North Korea. It's such a shame that he couldn't see the harm he was doing through name calling and finger pointing. As it turns out, we needn't worry about these three at all. North Korea's being just a juvenile blowhard by threatening to use nuclear weapons. We all know they don't really mean it. Iraq is practically a utopia now that Obama's in office to fix Bush's Big Mistake. Ahmadinejad's posturing over nuclear weapons is all talk. He's really just a nice, misunderstood guy underneath that rough exterior. The people of Iran all agree.

I'm glad there's no more racism.
Justice Sotomayor has certainly convinced me that no matter how much I studied law and practiced it, I could never come up to her standard of justice by virtue of her race and gender. We certainly could use a lot more people who judge content of character based on such solid reasoning. When the US Senate passed a bill to apologize for US slavery and segregation, I knew that we had finally achieved racial equality here in the US.

Yes, the old Bush years are behind us and we now live in a Brave New World led by Obama. Gone are the billions in deficits under Bush. Gone are jobless recovery, greedy corporations, nasty oil shortages, government excesses and corruption, and world distrust of America. I feel a lot better off with Obama at the helm. Don't you?