nightmares, ours and his

One person on my f/list said, "The nightmare is over at last." The very next post included the words, "And we have a new, shiny President. He's got a nightmare ahead of him."

hear hear!

“As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals. Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience’s sake.”

President Barack Hussein Obama