Not even you can wreck my holiday.
I refused to allow the shadow of your presidency cast its malevolent cloud upon the remembrance of our nation's birth.
The weather behaved long enough to enjoy a barbecue with loved ones, and afterwards we sat under a cloudless night to view the annual display of pyrotechnics.

It wasn't until the firework
display started that I realized that although our
relative locations on the earth does not allow us to
share the same night sky simultaneously. Thanks to
your occupation, our soldiers and innocent Iraqis are
under the same sky, the same moon, and the same sun,
but the explosions they see are used to mangle and
deny as much human life as possible.
On this birthday of our country, I look back at your
five years as our president and marvel how quickly
you have made our nation a mockery of our founding
father's sacrifices.
Your reign has been a constant campaign of
concentrating and extending your power, at the behest
of your jaded vice-president and neo-con cabal of
ideologues, Our nation's top enforcer of this
county's laws has abdicated his duty and heralded all
your unconstitutional activities.
You stretched your executive powers to their zenith.
They crossed the bright lines set down by our
forefathers long before the Supreme Court wisely
chose to chastise your efforts so publically.
As a law onto yourself it is doubtful, these nine
judge's final judgement will shake your resolve to
remain outside the laws you choose as necessary. The
ruling will be twisted and tempered until it is
sufficiently hard enough to blunt the words of anyone
who would dare use the ruling as an example of
executive hubris.
Your acolytes have constantly created disgraceful and
obscenely divisive issues. Issues they sharpen, and
hone to a fine edge to cut this republic repeatedly.
The focus of each blow was designed to separate a
specific portion of the country and engage them like
a benevolent uncle, a kindly neighbor with
unsophisticated tastes and manners.
Skillful use of Rovian word-play brings out the
poisonous hate which resides just below the surface
of many of these Americans within the group you have
separated from the chaff.
You unashamedly provide America's limited resources
to wealthy supporters and supply targets for those
smile-in-your-face bigots discontented with their
lives, who are willing to blame others for their lot.
Greed and hatred make an interesting platform for you
to work from. Catering to the reprehensible nature of
humanity is a life skill you failed to mention in any
of your campaign speeches.
Your skills are not without merit; your knack of
selecting loyal animals most willing to sit
comfortably on your lap who can viciously keep the
terrible truth of your actions and their consequences
at bay is nothing short of remarkable for someone
with such a drug-and-alcohol-addled brain as yours.
Do you really know who you are, and what you have
done?
One wonders how you can keep such a distorted
illusion of yourself for so long without perceiving
at least a glimpse of the depravity of your actions.
What manner of medication can keep your mind so numb,
delusional and entombed in self aggrandizing?
Is it the mantle of the office which you believe
elevates you above far the reach of arrows sent your
way by the quiver from disconcerted citizen reporters
and questioning media professionals? Or is it hubris
which has grown around you like a metastasized cancer
which renders all manner of criticism received
irrelevant?
I was able to enjoy my holiday but my day was really
complete after I converted some of the toxins you try
to infused in my life into simple truths back to
their originator.
