Bush Has No Torch to Pass On, But He Does Have a Shovel
by James Glaser
November 6, 2008

Think of it this way. When George Bush came to Washington eight years ago, then President Bill Clinton gave him a big old bag of money and said "Here is something to start off with."

There is something very different this year. When Barack Obama comes to Washington to take over the country, he is going to find President George Bush in a deep hole behind the White House. Instead of a big bag of money, George is going to hand Barack a shovel, and George Bush will show Barack Obama the hole he has to dig his way out of.

When George Bush took over eight years ago, Bill Clinton was running a no-fly zone around Saddam Hussein's Iraq, and had peace keepers in the Balkans. However, no American troops were getting killed and wounded on a regular basis, and the economy was chugging right along.

This year, George Bush is handing over a country that still has peace keepers in the Balkans, but instead of a no fly zone in Iraq we have full fledged wars going on in Iraq and Afghanistan, and intermittent fighting in Pakistan and Syria. Our debt has more than doubled, the economy is in a tail spin, and we are pouring money into George Bush's, soon to be Barack Obama's, War on Terror.

Meanwhile, the people who worked for the last two years to get Obama his victory are expecting President Obama to "change the world." It doesn't matter to those who "believe," what condition our country is in. They bought all the election rhetoric and promises, and they want to see "change" start right away.

Millions of people at the bottom are going to hold this new President to his promise of tax cuts to 95% of the population. They know even if they didn't earn any taxable income, Barack Obama is going to send them a check, and it better not be chump change.

Everyone now knows that free health care is right around the corner, and not only are there going to be two chickens in every pot, everyone is going to get a new pot.

So, Barack Obama is going to need that shovel that George Bush is going to hand to him. I just hope that this Harvard lawyer knows how to use it.

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