the lustration of obamaland—the fundation.

 The lustration was originally a sacrifice for expiation and purification offered by one of the censors in the name of the Roman people at the close of the taking of the census. The sacrifice was often in the form of an animal sacrifice, known as a suovetaurilia. Sometimes the census was not held at all, or at least not by the censors. The census might take place without the lustrum. In these cases, the lustrum was not performed because of some great calamities that had befallen the republic.