One week from today, a historic presidency begins and a tarnished presidency ends.
The inauguration of Barack Obama, the first African-American president, cannot come quickly enough for the vast majority of Americans.
This young man with the keen disciplined mind and the buffed body begins a presidency with high hopes, goodwill and a never-ending list of problems left on the Oval Office desk by George Walker Bush, the ever-confident occupant of that high office who seems like the dinner guest who will not leave.
In all my years around Washington as an observer and as a member of several administrations, I have rarely witnessed an event as bizarre as President Bush's farewell press conference yesterday.
It reminded me of Richard Nixon's November 17, 1973, question and answer session before 400 Associated Press managing editors at the height of the Watergate scandal, in which he declared: "People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook."
Bush still cannot really admit to his big mistakes...he admits to some minor errors, but what about the scandal of firings of U.S. Attorneys? Or the Iraq invasion? Gitmo? Abu Ghraib? His economic and tax policies that have wrecked the economy and devastated the middle class?
He is an arrogant fool, one that cannot be gone soon enough for my preferences.
I think President-Elect Obama should echo Gerald Ford in the start his inaugural address with "My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over."
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