Four years and 1300 dead soldiers ago, I, George W. Bush, brought forth into this world a new, negative view of our nation, one based on arrogance and dedicated to the proposition that either you are with us or against us.

Now we are engaged in a great terrorist war, testing whether our nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure beyond a second incompetent presidential term. Still, we have come to commemorate the start of my second term despite the reality of losing the vote in those states that were attacked by terrorists. But in a larger sense, we cannot commemorate, we cannot hallow this Inaugural since I have no appreciation for such personal sacrifice. The brave men, living and dead who struggled to keep our country free have hallowed it far beyond my simple views of the world. The world will little note nor long remember what I say here for obvious reasons, but it can never forget the soldiers I have sacrificed for such arrogant incompetence.

It is rather for us the living, we here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—the reform of Social Security that endangers us on a scale equal to Iraq WMDs a few years ago.

From the honored dead, we take increased devotion to that cause of making the wealthy wealthier. We here highly resolve that those dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation shall have a wider gap between rich and poor under the guise of freedom and patriotism. That government of the people, ruled by elite people, for the prosperous people shall not perish but live as long as the poor fight our wars and the rich can afford to avoid them.

May my daughters continue attending their parties and never go near Iraq like so many of our soldiers.

May Jesus Christ remain my hero as long as I don’t have to practice his beliefs.

Amen.