Some are calling it “Too little too late,” while others are reflexively saying, “Better late than never.” Either way, everyone seems to be gathering strength from the simple calendrical fact that the worst disaster in American presidential history is approaching its scheduled end. We’re talking of course, of the Bush Preznincy, currently inflicting its last several months on a weary American populace. Except for this guy, who may be the sharpest tool in the shed of the 28% that somehow think George Bush has done a heckofa job:

28% aware

“Bush’s approval rating, which stood at 28 percent in a CNN May poll, is still slightly better than the all-time lows set by Harry Truman and Richard Nixon (22 percent and 24 percent, respectively), but even those two presidents never got a disapproval rating in the 70s,” some lackey from CNN said. CNN Senior Political Analyst Bill Schneider added, “He is more unpopular than Richard Nixon was just before he resigned from the presidency in August 1974.”

San Francisco voters have, in an upcoming election, the opportunity to name a prominent civic structure after the current president.

George W. Bush, whom many historians consider to be the worst president in US history, is nonetheless being singled out for the honor of having his name engraved on a building overlooking the beautiful Pacific Ocean.

If the measure passes, locals and tourists alike will be able to look up in wonder at the George. W. Bush Sewage Treatment Plant.

After two failed presidential terms, which built on a number of failed business ventures, will George W. Bush, at long last, be flushed with success?

Pursuing The Right: Inside this Week’s Urantian Sojourn Magazine

Oooh you’re so jaded! Not the neocon “right,” you silly jelly beans, but the real “Right,” as in the Right Stuff.~ This week’s headliners tell the story of real love between the Obamas, the kind of love that we all search for; real love, given freely, without conditions. The Love that “conquereth all.”

Forever in contrast, the purveyors of hate in all its forms will one day disappear like dew before the sun, but until then, they should be exposed to the growing light of a new day dawning; the dawning of The Right Stuff. As the World Court War Crimes tribunal began deliberations, George W. Bush began groveling for leniency by spilling his guts about Darth Cheney’s evil plans for subjugation of the world. Cheney’s already famous quip, “I don’t recall doing evil” is just a portent of the unprecedented trial which continues to produce new indictments nearly every week. And don’t miss Angelina Jolie’s remarkably persuasive entreaty for summary execution of all public officials who betray the public trust, and her powerful call to recognize social and political disloyalty as being the most heinous of all crimes.

Rush Limbaugh, the man Ronald Reagan once called “the Number One voice for conservatism in our Country,” began serving a federal prison term for incitement to riot at the Democratic Convention of 2008. A grateful nation has welcomed his self-imposed “vow of silence” pending his “vindication of all wrong-doing” through the appeals process. You go, girlfriend.

Meanwhile, John McCain, already stumbling around the rapidly shrinking neocon talking head circuit fresh from divorce court, was blathering on in Dingus, Missouri this past week, where a trio of POWs handing him both sides of his own lying ass. A must read.

Even before the dust had settled from Obama’s landslide victory, the implosion of the GOP was a fait accompli, as Bill Krystal knowingly mused, “The pie will not go back in the pan.” The end of the two-party stranglehold on American politics just may be the biggest change wrought yet by the Obama revolution; get the big picture with our special report.

Until next week. . .

Hillary Clinton missed the zeitgeist, while Barack Obama not only recognized and embraced it, but due in large part to his diverse cultural and racial background, actually embodies it.

Barack’s message of Hope and Change found greater resonance in the Democratic electorate than Hillary’s message of Experience and Leadership. The latter no doubt polled well in Mark Penn’s focus groups, but that was the past talking, not the future. Clinton’s adoption of Bob Shrum’s “I will fight for you” trope was subsumed and transcended by Barack’s appeal to “we the people” as the agency of change, to thee versus me.

That, I suggest, is a key part of the post-Bush era zeitgeist, a German word generally translated as “spirit of the age,” taken from the Latin genius seculi— literally, “the guardian spirit of the century.”

The notion of a guiding hand in history finds expression in The Urantia Book in a Paper titled “The Seraphic Planetary Government,” a council comprised of twelve divisions of “angels” (none of whom have wings, but some of whom have “friction shields”!).  At least two of the divisions are relevant here. They are:

The epochal angels. These are the angels of the current age, the dispensational group. These celestial ministers are intrusted with the oversight and direction of the affairs of each generation as they are designed to fit into the mosaic of the age in which they occur. The present corps of epochal angels serving on Urantia is the third group assigned to the planet during the current dispensation.

The angels of nation life. These are the ” angels of the trumpets, ” directors of the political performances of Urantia national life. The group now functioning in the overcontrol of international relations is the fourth corps to serve on the planet. It is particularly through the ministry of this seraphic division that ” the Most Highs rule in the kingdoms of men. “

Believing such a narrative is, of course, a leap of faith. But if political Hope has a spiritual component, this may be it.

One can be forgiven for asking, however:  Where the hell have they been for the last few years?!?  Why would they allow an incompetent, messianically deluded, malignant narcissist like George W. Bush to occupy the most powerful office on the planet, to take a wrecking ball to the world?

I assume the answer is found in a spiritual mandate requiring them to walk a fine line between human free will and celestial overcontrol. On their way to ruling in “the kingdoms of men,” the Most Highs must funambulate their way across a vast canyon separating spirit and matter.

Hope is thinking that the historical pendulum is now swinging away from the selfishness of the past and towards the more inclusive, spiritual pole of the future. In the end, Hillary was the candidate of ideas, Barack the candidate of ideals:

Ideas may take origin in the stimuli of the outer world, but ideals are born only in the creative realms of the inner world. Today the nations of the world are directed by men who have a superabundance of ideas, but they are poverty-stricken in ideals. That is the explanation of poverty, divorce, war, and racial hatreds. (ibid)

So be it.

[M]ercy may be lavish, but justice is precise. —The Urantia Book

IN A MOTION filed with the Universe Supreme Court yesterday, a group of mortals from the planet Urantia petitioned the Creator to revise his original plans and set aside at least one world for the eternal damnation of George W. Bush and his allies.

“We know that the nature of the Infinite Father is one of love and near infinite mercy, but enough is enough. Annihilation is too good for these scum,” said a spokesperson for the group, Mightily Pissed Off Urantians, in an interview with the Celestial News Network.

The petitioners provided over 1000 evidentiary exhibits of what they characterize as Bush’s crimes against humanity, and the planet. A separate amicus brief, signed by a long list of the planet’s philosophers, political, and religious leaders addresses the various sophistries used to rationalize the defendants’ actions.

Asked for a one word summary of the charges, the spokesperson replied:

“Rape. Rape of The Country Formerly Known As Iraq. Rape of the environment for personal and corporate gain. Rape of human rights and basic human dignity.”

“It’s tempting to dismiss Bush and his ilk as mere sociopaths, but that implies some sort of mitigating, organic brain damage. These people knew damn well what they were doing. An example needs to be made for all future would-be world tyrants,” he added.

Asked for an estimate of how long it would take for a ruling, a clerk for the Ancients of Days replied:

“Well, we’ve got a pretty heavy docket this term due to a heavy influx of emergency petitions for divine intervention from this very same planet. Given the long term nature of the relief sought in this particular declaratory motion, the emergency petitions will be given priority. But in a universe where time is measured against eternity, justice delayed in not justice denied.”

When the spokesperson for Mightily Pissed Off Urantians was informed of the likely delay, he replied:

“Yeah, we sort of expected that. But we take comfort in knowing that while the Bushies can run, they can’t hide. In the short term, we’d be satisfied with them being dragged before the Hague for war crimes and spend the rest of their miserable lives behind bars.”

“I hear Guantanamo might have some vacancies soon,” he added.