From TPM Reader S …
As someone who regretfully contributed to George W. Bush’s victory in 2000 and was unpersuaded by John Kerry in 2004, I feel as though we’ve been waiting for this moment to arrive. I have a hard time not thinking of present events in their inevitably historical context. And having just finished reading “Slaughterhouse Five”, I can’t help but come to the conclusion that we had to tolerate the abominable Bush for eight years so that we might finally be ready to elect a man capable of inspiring the broad-sweeping changes that politicians like Kerry could only pontificate about. That Barack Obama was written in the stars of our nation’s history, as much as, for some dumbass reason, George Bush was.
But what I’ve been thinking about this past week, is how the story of Captain Sullenberger seems to be a divine metaphor for the situation we’re in now. We as a nation have been flying along fine in history until the flock of geese that was the Bush Adminstration, got sucked through the jets of history and although this plane is going down and the landing may be rough, with the right pilot at the helm, we can all expect to be okay in the end. I mean, when’s the last time a plane crash on the news has given us hope?
