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blood-stained canvass of the past eight yearsand far beyond if we really feel like coughing it up. What the world is viewing is simply la crme de la crme d'ilusin at the hands of the media gurus and their Establishment cohorts.

I am in utter disbelief for two reasons: how can so many people be buying all this, and how could the new president, even for the graceful sake of formality, actually thank the outgoing President Bush for his service to the nation? I'll tell you, honestly, I'd be losing my lunch if it weren't already digested.

The Guest of Honor goes on to boast about the "skill and vision of those in high office". He couldn't be referring to the criminals who got the nation into its present mess; the Wall Street crooks and capitalist pigs who created what might turn out to be Great Depression II, or the 530 thugs in Congress who continue to support Israel as it commits genocide in Gaza. Or, could he?

"Prepare the nation for a new age" is what President Obama promises to fellow citizens; some 30 million men and women who go without health care, men and women who are losing their jobs, men and women who are experiencing foreclosure on their homes, men and women who have renewed faith in the system that screws them. The world is still in the age of the war against terror, so what new age might he be referring to? I guess we'll all just have to wait and see if that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow really exists for anyone who isn't elite.

President Obama declared that "greatness must be earned", inadvertently condescending or not, it's something that the solemn-faced, has-been George Bush failed miserably to achieve. The President's words were also extended to international leaders by insisting that their people will "judge you by what you build, not what you destroy. (sic)" Time will tell on what grounds the 44th President will someday be judged, and the degree of greatness which he may earn.

The Emperor may be new image, articulation and character but the clothes are sewn from the same silky, rhetorical themes of nobility, prosperity and patriotism which have been so deceptively and manipulatively spewed forth at previous inaugurations. National security, jobs, production, economy, education, leadership Amerika's greatness and its God-proclaimed responsibility to lead the world is just as farcically magnanimous as it has been for so many generations.

For now, the permeating and "nagging fear that America's decline is inevitable" may be temporarily paused for Obama supporters the people who "have chosen hope over fear." However, the days of jabbering at the jaw about change is over, the day has arrived for Obama to put his money where his mouth is and deliver on his campaign slogan.

One quick way to test the waters of change: will Guantanamo be shut down by week's end?

Perhaps we all just need to give the guy a break, grab our ankles, hope for the best and see what becomes of his presidency. Provided of course, you completely disregard the nation's history and fail to see US political reality for what it is illusion at its finest.

As Jesus Christ so wisely warned, "Beware of the wolves in sheep's clothing."

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