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December 24, 2006
At least in my world...
Well, if I’ve been a good boy and studied my Charles Dickens the way I ought to have, I can reasonably certain that today is the day that Bush discovers the true meaning of Christmas...
Around 4pm (EDT) President Bush will be visited by the Ghost of Richard Nixon. Nixon will tell Bush that the chains our current president has forged in this life are heavier than the ones Nixon did. That takes some doing! Anyway, Nixon ought to be telling Bush that he can expect a trio of sprits—Presidents Past (Washington), Present (Al Gore from the alternate history where Florida followed its State law and counted the over votes), and Future (Emperor Norton II. Not technically a president)...
They will show him the utter disaster he’s made of both America and the World. Finally, when he is confronted with the preventable malnutrition and avoidable disease which are plaguing the children of the future because his administration didn’t help their parents, he’ll turn to Emperor Norton and ask if it is preventable, or inevitable...
Bush then wakes up Christmas morning and pledges that day, that very hour, to ensure that poverty will no longer mean utter suffering. In the future that Bush will pledge to work towards, the best indicator of adult income will no longer be how much food or pre-natal medical care their parents could afford...
And as President Bush goes out that evening to a DC area soup kitchen to personally ladle out food to the poor, a child speaks up:
"Gods bless us, every one"...
Posted by Andrew at December 24, 2006 12:03 AM