During an election year, we tend to follow the horserace. This year, maybe more than any other, the people want change and there is no incumbent. You could argue that the race is anyone's to win or lose. There's some optimism, some pessimism, some healthy skepticism, and a near universal agreement that the future really couldn't be any worse than our present. At least, in the leadership category.
So, in our excitement and trepidation, we look toward 2009 and treat this year as merely the road we take to get there. But this road is twelve months long and we still have to travel it. On our way to 2009, we have to live in 2008.
It's easy in our interest with the future and our fixation on change to ignore the present and the reason for that fixation. The reason we've fixated on tomorrow is that we don't like today. And the King of this Status Quo is George W. Bush.
So, we're yanked back into the present, which we really shouldn't be ignoring anyway, with an op-ed in the Washington Post by George McGovern titled Why I Believe Bush Must Go (Nixon Was Bad. These Guys Are Worse).
As we enter the eighth year of the Bush-Cheney administration, I have belatedly and painfully concluded that the only honorable course for me is to urge the impeachment of the president and the vice president.
After the 1972 presidential election, I stood clear of calls to impeach President Richard M. Nixon for his misconduct during the campaign. I thought that my joining the impeachment effort would be seen as an expression of personal vengeance toward the president who had defeated me.
Today I have made a different choice...
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