* All that ballot counting, all those dead bodies, eight years of Yale ' 68 pigheadedness for THIS: "Free at last." ?

Bush, on the other hand, 

was through with politics.

 He told visitors in Dallas that he felt 

liberated 

on the day of Obama’s inauguration. 

“When I saw his hand go up, 

I thought, 

Free at last,"

Bush said

(LINK above to today's NYT Magazine article on the Bush/Cheney freeze.)