Happy New Year! Now, Here's some ABBA

It's finally the last day of 2008, and not a moment too soon. Sadly, we still have to wait 20 more days for the "Bush Era" to actually end, but that's sort of a technicality, isn't it? I mean, he stopped being President in most of our eyes--and quite possibly his own--on November 4.

And given this blogger's (and many Americans') feelings that Bush wasn't so much elected as selected, we can classify Barack Obama as the first elected President of the twenty-first century. Or at least the first newly elected one. That's sorta cool. And we're almost at then end of the first decade!

And speaking of decades, while the music of ABBA is (for good or evil) immortal, this song would be more so if it didn't so clearly mention the end of the 70s and the beginning of the 80s. I'd love for Benny, Bjorn, Frida and Agnetha to rerecord this one with some slightly adjusted lyrics.