Regime Change 2009

Well the Bush regime has finally ended and the Obama one begun, so here's to four new years. Watching the helicopter take Bush to Andrews Air Force base, I noticed something I never saw in the other changings of the guard--people cheering that the previous president was leaving. Also, I found it a bit ironic that the senator who used to be a member of the KKK collapsed during the inaugural luncheon for the first African American/biracial president. Obama now has the unenviable job of dealing with a decaying global economy and cleaning up the mess left behind by decades of deregulating the financial system and dismantling the mechanisms to police the financial world brought on by four terms of Clinton and Bush.