At Last

As Mr. and Mrs. Obama danced their first (ten) dances as President and First Lady, we heard the same song time after time - "At Last." How fitting. At last, we have put aside hundreds of years of racial prejudice and elected our nation's first black President. At last, the country, the world, is filled with a sense of unity. At last, we are free from the rule of the "Decider," who trampled upon American ideals and turned the land of the free into the very kind of oppressed, corrupt, tyrannical society he claimed to be fighting against. At last, we can say goodbye to torture, spying, dishonest and pointless wars. At last, we have someone in the White House who can articulate his thoughts in complete and coherent sentences. At last, we have hope instead of fear.

Though I think it was bad form when the crowds started booing soon-to-be-former President Bush at soon-to-be-President Obama's inauguration, the message was clear: goodbye, and good riddance! The end of an "error," indeed. As the helicopter carried the former President away from the Capitol, those who were not chanting, "Na na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye" were breathing a sigh of relief.

Yes we can. Yes we did. Yes we shall.