George W. Bush has come full circle.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

If true, and I have no doubt it is (in spirit if not in fact), the recently leaked *bush statement that the United States Constitution is just a goddamned piece of paper has brought him full circle- in fact, it takes him all the way back to the Presidential Oath Of Office.

The oath itself is short, and it is sworn while the newly elected President has a hand on the Bible. This is significant because it represents taking a binding oath, and it's done in the literal presence of the entire nation- actually, the entire world may witness it. It is a precise oath, and there is no equivocation anywhere in it. It consists of one sentence. It is, ironically, taken from a little document you may have heard of- Article II, Section 1 of The Constitution Of The United States Of America. It goes EXACTLY like this:

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States."

Just a goddamned piece of paper. And the entire Presidency rests upon it. And he's declared it worthless. Which makes his Presidency worthless- no, LESS than worthless. It's a lie. A sham. A falsehood of international proportions.

In that light, I believe it's time to bring another much-beloved document to bear. We need to use it as a response to the appalling hypocrisy that is George W. Bush. And it goes EXACTLY like this:

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
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I now believe that by typing this post I place both myself and the Democratic Underground in jeopardy. It behooves me thusly to state I am not a terrorist. I AM an American, born and raised, and I am a patriot. I simply do not believe the child residing in the Oval Office is our President. He has discarded the very document he swore upon to assume that important office. He IS a terrorist. He's a fascist nazi dictator, and he needs to be removed from office and he needs to be charged with crimes against this country and he needs to be imprisoned for his words and for his deeds.

Just another goddamned piece of paper indeed.