In article , Hawke wrote:

Don't hold your breath. He's going to be here long after you're gone.
He's not even fifty years old and is thin and in good shape. I don't
think that describes you, does it. Old, broken down, white man, with few
years left is your description. Count yourself lucky you were alive to
see the first minority president in history. Count yourself unlucky that
you couldn't appreciate him or the job he has done getting the country
out of the hole that your last choice of president left us in.

Pigeon, can I have some of what you're smoking? It must be some really good
sh*t. "The job he has done getting the country out of the hole [Bush] left us
in" -- you're insane. The Federal deficit is far higher now than when Bush
left office; so is the unemployment rate; so is the home foreclosure rate --
how, exactly, has he or anyone else gotten the country "out of the hole"? By
any measure, we're in a *much* deeper hole now than two years ago.