by Robyn Goldenberg

Created on: April 29, 2008

Valediction was a reliable sentiment in the early 2000's. Bill Clinton was the President. The population customarily gathered in great numbers at movie theaters and living rooms across America for Blair Witch Two, to watch the great leaders of tomorrow fight like hens in a henhouse, Chads, Pregnant-chads. Easy Couture was the style.Everyone wore what was comfortable with the addition of aviator glasses and Ugg Boots. Fashion was a tribute to the self, and you could read every one like a book by looking at their outfits. There was a lot of worry about the soon to be 43rd president. There were no poor people. There was no concern about ones finances. On Sunday afternoons, families would eat brunch at expensive diners. Fathers and mothers would go their separate ways. Children would play game-boy quietly in the background.

This was the time in our history when Eminem was doing his best at insulting every living being, and as a result sold millions of copies of The Marshall Mathers LP. There were unexplained songs of the year, like, Who Let the Dogs Out, by Baha Men. Odd things went on in the United States government, as the Electoral College votes became more important than the popular vote. In New York City, the papers were full of scandal as George W. Bush was named the 43rd president of the United States, and Al Gore fell of the face of the earth.

Suburban parents crowded Starbucks on weekday mornings before road raging their ways to work in Fast and Furious SUVs and sports cars. Teen drinking and drugging hit America like an epidemic, and while kids were killing them selves, Snoop Dogg created his own language. By putting "izzle" in the middle and at the end of every word, little white boys, who thought themselves as ghetto rewrote the dictionaryWebster would be proud!

As Cher started her Good bye touragain; U2 and Dave Matthews' band took the stage and reminisced about the old times, before Brittney, Christina and the like. Johnny Knoxville pushed the envelope of reality TV with his show "Jackass" and Reality TV flooded the minds and souls of people all across America, who crowded their TVs every night for a glimpse of reality. The reality of it all was that as we Americans lived the real reality, Survivor, Real World, and others only came close to faux-reality.

As New York City was made a target by Osama Bin Laden, the Twin Towers were assaulted by passenger planes. People across America were thrown into the possibilities of biochemical warfare, and the sales

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