The View from Valhalla

I don’t know if anyone caught the opening of the George W. Bush Presidential Library; but it was a revisionist love-feast with all the living ex-prezes and their spouses lined up on the podium next to the Obamas.

Everyone took great pains to compliment one another, and you just knew they all shared the secret password; maybe even matched launch-codes for a door prize.

The universal subtext was: “If we knew then, what we do now…(wink-wink.)”

Yeah, if only…

About Sue Prent

Artist/Writer/Activist living in St. Albans, Vermont with my husband since 1983. I was born in Chicago; moved to Montreal in 1969; lived there and in Berlin, W. Germany until we finally settled in St. Albans.

10 thoughts on “The View from Valhalla

  1. is quite a scream:

    http://www.gocomics.com/jeffda

    I find it difficult to believe that they all climbed aboard this insidiously hate-themed platform. Even Obama made a crack about if-we-only-knew. It’s also clear that the gruesome things that happened also matched W’s Texas-style special brand of hatred.  

  2. One of my most disturbing memories of the whole Dubya administration was at the White House press corps banquet when Dubya pretended to look for WMD in the oval office, under his desk, for instance. Everybody in the press corps laughed, nobody had the courage to walk out in disgust.  Kids died over Dubya’s WMD claim, the mideast was thrown into turmoil and the White House press corps laughed.  I wonder if the video of that disgusting event is showing on a jumbotron in the Bush library???

    And now Obama and Clinton show up on opening day, press corps in tow.

  3. When I heard this I finally saw “Babs” up close & personal. Her recent comments that ‘we don’t need another Bush in WH’- just more of the contrived theater she’s so famous for. What a complete phony:

    “Why should we hear about body bags and deaths,” Barbara Bush said on ABC’s “Good Morning America” on March 18, 2003. “Oh, I mean, it’s not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?”

    More:

    http://whatreallyhappened.com/

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