Fitting Bookends

There couldn't have been a better demonstration of the American people's rejection of the illegitimacy and the colossal failure of the George W. Bush presidency and the damage it inflicted than the two significant but sparsely covered events that bookend his eight year reign.

The opening bookend was in January of 2001 at his first inauguration when the people came in huge numbers , lined the motorcade route, and told the world in their loudest most angry and defiant voices, that they did not accept George W. Bush's rule.

The people, who were not blinded by party alliance, knew voters had been illegally removed from the voter rolls in order to eliminate the voters most likely to vote against Bush. They also knew a heavily partisan Supreme Court appointedBush to the office of President against the will of the people. They knew that he had cheated to gain this office and they were determined not to stand by in silence.

The entire motorcade protest aired on C-Span as it happened live. C-Span, to its credit, covered the protest in its entirety without pundit commentary to cloud the interpretation of this emotional event. Viewers were able to see with their own eyes and hear with their own ears, the motorcade route packed with angry citizens of all ages, races, and walks of life, waving signs and screaming to the world to express their rejection of this ruler that had been forced upon them. It was a powerful mandate that the people knew what they did last November and they were not going to stand for it.

There was a sliver of hope at that time that it would effect some type of change, or a reversal of the election. At the very least, there was the hope that any human with any ounce of decency or honor would have accepted this overwhelming rejection by the people and walked away in defeat, his head bowed in shame, realizing he had not achieved the highest office in the country through the will of the people. The world soon discovered that honor and decency were not in the make up of George W. Bush's character.

Unfortunately, this massive protest was seen by only a few because the networks and cable giants neglected to cover it. Everyone knows, if the news organizations don't report it, then it never happened and history and reality disappear down the memory hole. However, a brief clip of this rejection of Bush by the People did end up in the film Fahrenheit 911 to be seen by a larger audience and to be saved for posterity.

The closing bookend to George W. Bush's presidency occurred on November 4, 2008, as the people surrounded the White House celebrating not just Barack Obama's victory in the election, but the end to eight years of Bush's disastrous reign over America and the world.

The pundits tried to spin this symbolic event as just a victory celebration for Obama. The celebration became the story as opposed to what was being celebrated. However, America and the world knew it was much more than that. The people were ecstatic that a person never invited into the White House (the people's house), would now be evicted from that house.

If history does not betray the truth, as it so often does, these bookends will succinctly sum up the overall unpopular and unwelcome presidential legacy of George W. Bush.


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