Childrens Do Learn…
What is that about being doomed to repeat the past? In case you need a review of the horrors of the GWB years, the brilliant folks who brought us “Goodnight Bush” made this fabulous website:
The Official George W. Bush Presidential Libarium
It’s been up for a while, but somehow I missed it! So I’m sharing it with you all now. It’s worth taking a look at.
It features areas such as Turd Blossom Gardens, Free Speech Plaza (with a giant stomping boot on a protester), Walter Reed Hospital of Horrors, The Golden Parachutes Ride, Book BBQ and The Enchanted Deforestation.
Spend some time scrolling around there and read all the little ride descriptions, a magnifying tool allows you to see detail in the pictures as well. Aside from being remarkably well-designed, it’s very astute and plenty snarky. Like “Goodnight Bush” I laughed but then I also shuddered as it hit that nerve – that “I can’t believe that was actually our reality over the last decade in American history” place inside me that will never really be the same again.
I feel like we all dove right in to this next “chapter” with Obama now, and getting swept up in the moment happened very quickly. We are all so very anxious to move on. And with all of the discussion and criticism being swirled about what Obama is doing and is not doing – and rightfully so, as citizens we absolutely need to paying attention to the job he is doing and questioning - I have to admit, looking at this just kind of slapped me with a perspective check.
It’s helpful for me to remember the mess he inherited and will be dealing with the ENTIRE time, because it’s so WAY to much for any human to fix, or being to attempt to fix.
It’s also helpful for me, when I get impatient, frustrated or angry to remember that it could be SO SO SO much worse right now.
h/t to the wonderful library, literary and book-centric ladies at Closed Stacks
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