We Have Been Prisoners of W

[Generic Other]

Soon we on DU like the rest of our fellow liberals will exit this dark age we have all been forced to live through. The end of this miserable period in our history is at hand. I look backwards at the legacy of the Bush years, and I marvel that any of us have survived. Psychologically we have endured much. So many dark moments. Pepper sprayed at protests. Herded into First Amendment Zones. Arrested outside the White House gates. Ignored and silenced in spite of our numbers.

Torture, a drowned city, the slow decay of our institutions. All of us--poorer, sicker, hungrier, spiritually drained. We have shouted until we were hoarse, cried until there were no more tears, ranted through the night, dug our nails into our palms, our fists into our mouths to stifle our screams.

And now we see a glimmer of light under our door. We can hear the key in the lock. They are going to set us free.

I feel shell shocked.

How about you?

[Mme. Defarge]

1. "Free at last, free at last,

praise God almighty ..."

[babylonsister]

Your description is so much more poetic than mine.

I am shell shocked, and it started with the Iraqi war/illegal occupation. That's still going on, isn't it. People are still dying, but 9/week for Americans, so no big deal. Women killed, raped, deformed, no big deal. And that's just Americans. I won't even bring up the Iraqis, cause it's no big deal. :(
What have we become when this is ignored?


Am I rabid about Obama becoming president? You betcha, because he will end this, and that's why I found DU to begin with.

[az chela]

4. Sister you said it all,you speak for me!!!!!

I am hanging on by a thread.I wish my son was alive to see this,he would love Barack and Michelle.
I have been physically ill from bush and mcsame and all their people

[Generic Other]

11. We all stood with Cindy as she mourned

Too many beloved sons paid the ultimate price for these people's evil designs.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

2. I'm tired, scared, and moderately sedated

Fortunately, I've got a good stash of prescription opiates - all legal and like that.

I'm tired, because it feels like this campaign has gone on forever, and because it's been something extraordinary almost every day, and, honestly, I don't know what I'll obsess about when it's over. If McPOW wins, I'll be even more heavily into the opiates, and I think I'll take up cigarettes and heavy drinking.

If Obama wins, I will sleep well and be happy and probably start working again.

I'm scared because I don't trust polls and because the Republicans have stolen two, so what's to keep them from stealing three? I listen to the MSNBC and CNN pundits and read the news and everyone is talking as if Obama's win is a foregone conclusion, which frightens the bejesus out of me. Superstition plays a large part here, I know, but so does history. I remember being so sure of Gore, so sure of Kerry.

Fool me once, as Fuckface tried to say, we won't get fooled again. I wish Pete Townshend would have come out publicly and told Fuckface to quit pissing around with his lyrics.

And, the moderate sedation keeps me from punching the TV set or suddenly seeing Sarah Palin the the toast crumbs at breakfast. So far, so good. I need refills on November 3, but, after that, I shall survive.

Glad you asked?

[HopeFor2006]

3. Let freedom ring!

[Swamp Rat]

5. All I have to say is...

GEAUXBAMA!!! :hug:



:patriot:

[altan]

6. The War Within

If you want to flesh out your frustration with some historical anecdotes....find a comfortable easy chair, a good lamp and Bob Woodward's "The War Within".

It's worse than you ever dreamed.

[leftofthedial]

7. I'm not counting my chickens until the repuke voting machines hatch them

BUT

the last eight years have been the worst of my life in every way I can count...financial ruin, divorce, sickness, death (and death and death and more death--much of it pretty directly attributable to the issues you raise in the OP)

I can't take any more.

[Porschenut1066]

8. Make sure the person turning the key in the lock isn't McCain the new jailer.

We will not have won until Obama is elected and installed in the White House.
Don't drop your guard, or you may get hit with a right hook.
Keep working and supporting and talking to others and encouraging people to vote for Obama right up to the last minute. And if the Republicans try to steal this election and the new jailer is turning the key rather than our liberator then protest, march, complain, go on strike, shut this country down until our voices are heard.

[wroberts189]

9. Military Commissions Act of 2006 ..a dark dark day for me.

and my poor wife who had to listen and deal with my rantings. Bush has put pressure on a lot of marriages this way.

This was the day they spit in all our faces.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Commissions_Act

"Protections from criminal and civil prosecutions for previous instances of alleged torture"

snip

Amnesty International said that the Act "contravenes human rights principles."<35> and an editorial in The New York Times described the Act as "a tyrannical law that will be ranked with the low points in American democracy, our generation’s version of the Alien and Sedition Acts,"<36> while American Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Anthony D. Romero said, "The president can now, with the approval of Congress, indefinitely hold people without charge, take away protections against horrific abuse, put people on trial based on hearsay evidence, authorize trials that can sentence people to death based on testimony literally beaten out of witnesses, and slam shut the courthouse door for habeas petitions." <37>

[Generic Other]

12. We ranted at those we loved and then we snapped

You are not alone. Spouses, neighbors, friends, relatives could not always put back to together what came unglued.

And yes, this was a very dark moment in our history.

[tavalon]

10. Some even died under the reign of Dubya

Andy died and if he hadn't been driven to try to save this Republic from Diebold and their ilk, he might not have gotten cancer. If he had had universal healthcare, it might have been discovered early enough.

I wasn't politically aware enough in 2000 to realize just how devastating this administration would be, I thought they would be inept idiots, much like Dubya was during his "Governorship" of Texas. I was very naive back then. I feel much less innocent.

[Generic Other]

13. Andy would be with us now

encouraging us to fight to the end.

[Ladyhawk]

15. We don't know that for sure...

...but at least he wouldn't have been stalked to his dying day.

[Generic Other]

17. If he were alive today, he'd be calling us to action

I'm certain of that. So many DUers who fought so hard. I wish they were with us to see the end of the Bush error.

[Ladyhawk]

14. Amen.

I had to bow out of reality, finally. It got to be too much.

[liam_laddie]

16. Fuck the outgoing P and VP and their appointees!

It's the damn Federal Appeals Courts, packed by the traitors over the last eight years, which
are the major threat, as well as Civil Service positions filled with bushbots...hard to dislodge.

[Generic Other]

18. Our country has suffered 8 years of wrongful imprisonment

under the Bush administration. We will continue to live the horrible legacy he leaves behind.

You are right that the clean-up will not be easy.