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Jan 8, 2009

Bush Legacy

In less than two weeks the world will have at least four years of respite until Jeb returns his family aristocracy to the White House.

The differences that Barack Obama will inherently bring to the Presidency are more numerous than those of any other transition in my lifetime. Perhaps the only compliment I can possibly muster for G.W. Bush is that he is possibly the most physically fit person to ever hold the office. Even that will change on January 20th.

Obama is more literate than Bush. He is more intelligent. He is wittier. He speaks more clearly. He seems more genuine. He creates topics to discuss and react to, rather than the past eight years of being told everything was just fine the way it was.

The desire and dreams for peace and mindful growth demand an optimistic opinion of Obama's fortune and ability. Likewise for his family.

Including Bush I (G.H.W.) as Vice President in 1980, the Bush regime has held top power in the U.S. Government for 28 years (20 if you think they disappeared for Clinton)... their family aspires for control over We the People.

Barack Obama also aspires for that control, and it is his turn. His wife has not made a career out of politics, though she is quite capable of doing so and will inevitably hold influence as First Lady. Their daughters may aspire to politics someday as well, but this would be a result of being raised in that world... they would be second generation American aristocrats.

We are flipping from the most successful (for the Bush family) dynasty in the 232 years of our nation...

to the youngest.

Obadiah Newcomb Bush

Prescott Sheldon Bush

Dorothy Wear Walker

Robert Sheldon Bush

Mary Eleanor Bush

Margaret Livingston Bush

James Smith Bush

Prescott Sheldon Bush Jr.

William Henry Trotter Bush

George W. Bush

Laura Lane Welch

Pauline Robinson "Robin" Bush

John Ellis "Jeb" Bush

Columba Garnica Gallo

Sharon Smith

Henry Chase Hager

John Ellis "Jebby" Bush, Jr.

Current President George W. Bush is related to other presidents as well as Pierce, to whom he is also related on his father's side via Daniel Brewer. He is also a cousin of Washington (via Hutchinsons), Fillmore (via Millards), Lincoln (via Gilmans), Grant (via Lathrops). Hayes (via Smiths, Footes, Parmelees, and Huckinses), Garfield (via Wheelers, Carpenters, Cookes, Warrens, Holbrooks, and Arnolds), Cleveland (via Smiths and Stanleys), Theodore Roosevelt (via Schuylers), Taft (via Holbrooks, Thayers, Haywards, Cookes, Footes, Ravenses, Waterses, and Shermans), Coolidge (via Phillipses, Hortons, Garnseys, Pulsiphers, Ravenses, Richardsons, Moores, Bulkeleys, and Morses), Hoover (via Brookses, Reades, Wheelers, Richardsons, and Shermans), Franklin Roosevelt (via Beekmans, Hutchinsons, Popes, Jenneys, Richardses, Palgraves, Lathrops, and Howlands), Nixon (via Lippincotts, Footes, Traverses, Morses, and Howlands), and Ford (via Vanderburghs, Wheelers, Marvins, Gilmans, and Howlands).^[13] Bush is also distantly related to president-elect Barack Obama.^[14]

...Current President George W. Bush is related to Winston Churchill three ways: through the Coes of NY, the Sumners of Mass., and the Shermans of RI (linking them to the Baldwin, Hoar & Sherman family).^[13]

...President George W. Bush is also descended from Mayflower passengers John Howland, John Tilley, Henry Sampson, and probably Francis Cooke. ^{[13]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obadiah_Newcomb_Bush}

Jan 3, 2009

Ours is a potentially redefined Universe

Legal defense of Liberty as theater

How Long Will Americans Stay Apathetic To The Reality -

Peace in the Middle East, please... a plea.

Publicly criticizing Israel or the War on Drugs has not been a policy of the U.S. Government or corporate media outlets in nearly my entire lifetime... almost 35 years now.

It would blow my mind if Obama creates a global dialogue toward ending the growth of weaponry as an industry. Ending support of violent politics through military domination. Condemnation of torture and promotion of peace.

But the weight and momentum of history rises against these possibilities.

Israel has been fighting for it's right to displace indigenous people for 60 years now. For all that time, they have survived through U.S. military and political support.

Israel asserts itself as an independent nation by attacking it's hostile neighbors. For the first twenty days of 2009 the U.S. is forced into passive acceptance of attacks on a democratically elected government.

Even if Bush has an opinion about this situation, three out of four citizens don't like him enough to listen. The House and Senate are fractured and unable to initiate anything other than feeble reactions to whatever the President does. Plus, they are on their winter vacations now.

Israel has forced their position onto Obama's (our) future. They want war.

We know that for sure, for now.

"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.” - Pablo Neruda http://theunapologeticmexican.org/elmachete/palabras/