Under Clinton Bush, Americans got so sick and tired of hearing eight years of lies from Clintonites and then eight more years (for sixteen, now seventeen years) lies about Bush’s lying that now –come Hope & Change –one big-ass change is that lying just doesn’t seem to much matter anymore.

“Jaw-dropping” means a big yawn is in progress.

Damn shame –so hard it is to maintain a moral universe where it is understood why it is important to the human species that words have objective meanings, and –woops — along come a couple of charming-rogue leaders of the free world and we wake up one morning and (*pffft*) the Ten Commandments, the JudaoChristian Tradition, and the U.S. Constitution have been auctioned off in the night, traded for a baitbucketful of smirks and eye rolls.

And everywhere, from every ledger to every foreign shore, the consequences pile high and higher (have been since baleful November 2006) as wink wink the bright leitmotif fades sullen and enervated to dirge, promising a crescendo anything but what we had wished & hoped when we rubbed the lamp and out wisped the smiling genii.