Nation awakening from eight-year nightmare

On Jan. 21, 2009, a small, peaceful Texas community will awaken to find itself once again whole. Its village idiot will have returned home.

On that same morning, all America will awaken to a resplendent new dawn. Its citizens infused with hope, desiring change, will be revitalized by the promise of true democracy. Saluting its citizens will be a brave new world. America will, once again, become a shining ideal for the oppressed peoples of the world.

A new government, led by a young, brilliant, enlightened leader, dedicated to the proposition of functioning for the common good awaits us all.

Deliverance and recovery from an eight-year nightmare has begun.

WILLIAM R. OUIMET

Sandpoint