Down the road with Wonderful Wizard?

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On edit: An LTTE from The Forum (Fargo, ND)

As we consider venturing down the Yellow Brick Road to Four More Wars, it would be wise to look from whence we've come, for Oz is a rather strange place and we don't want to get lost. Fortunately, despite all of the desperate lever pulling of the Wonderful Wizard, we can still find our way home again, for we are the sons and daughters of heroes, and have not forgotten the land we left behind.

In that former land of hope and dreams, presidential leadership once rested upon the altar of truth. Our Senate chamber didn't echo with the curses of our vice president. Our Supreme Court fixed segregation, not elections. Little Rush Limbaugh was soiling his diapers, not the airwaves. Little Sean Hannity was sucking his finger, not pointing it at liberals. Little Zell Miller's confinement to an institution was still years away. Little Bill O'Reilly was fair and balanced, not unfair and unbalanced.

If we really concentrate, we can remember a time when God was not a Republican. We could hear the Beatles on AM radio, not right wing venom. We saw Texans selling cows down the river, not stockholders. We were respected in the world, not shunned. Back then, Republicans read the Constitution, not "Unfit for Command." Their election victories were celebrated with humility, not with arrogance and vengeance. For them, adultery was a sin, not an impeachable offense.

Although we've grown weary of our travels through Oz, let us not be troubled. As we wipe a month's supply of Mekong Delta mud from our eyes, we can almost see Election Day, shining like the morning star before the dawn. We can take heart in the knowledge that the Wonderful Wizard has faltered. Catastrophic success has confused his flying monkeys, his swift boat has sprung a leak, and it turns out that Jesus was not a Texan, he was a liberal.


Steve Rustad

Grand Forks, N.D.


http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm?id=69402§ion=Opinion
(there are a couple of other anti-Bush LTTE's today http://www.in-forum.com/opinion/)