The Onion: “Our Long National Nightmare of Peace and Prosperity Is Finally Over”

Thursday, 11 August 2011, around ten in the morning.

An oldie but a (sad, pre­scient) goodie:

My fel­low Amer­i­cans,” Bush said, “at long last, we have reached the end of the dark period in Amer­i­can his­tory that will come to be known as the Clin­ton Era, eight long years char­ac­ter­ized by unprece­dented eco­nomic expan­sion, a sharp decrease in crime, and sus­tained peace over­seas. The time has come to put all of that behind us.”

Makes me a lit­tle nos­tal­gic for the Bush years, when you could be angry about what the gov­ern­ment was doing, rather than what it was refus­ing to do.

(Via @jkottke).