Thank you

George Bush and Dick Cheney have with nearly unbelievable grace accepted more harsh criticism than any one else I can recall. Although I haven't always agreed with them, I am most thankful that they managed to keep us safe for seven years straight. In fact, they did such a good job that today's inauguration ceremony -- most certainly the biggest, ripest target for a terrorist attack in modern American history went off without even a credible threat, much less a real attack. I was working in DC on September 11 and remember seeing the smoke rising from the Pentagon as I watched through a conference room window. I would not have believed that we would be protected from another attack for so long.