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| 20 Jan 09, 4:30 PM littlenic 5 yrs |
This made me laugh. A lot. (You're not wrong about Hilary though. And it must be quite the bittersweet day for her, huh?) Why isn't your Sky working? | ||
| 20 Jan 09, 4:31 PM daitchen UK(SE), 9 yrs |
He seems to be far more serious about tackling global warming than Bush, who was completely in the pocket of the oil industry. So I'm plumping for guarded optimism.
ETA: Good to see you blogging on here again Edited 20 Jan 09, 4:40 PM by daitchen | ||
| 20 Jan 09, 4:32 PM verte UK(E), 8 yrs  |
This, for me, is really the point of marking today as some kind of triumph and celebration.
"Well-behaved women rarely make history" | ||
| 20 Jan 09, 4:33 PM Andromalius UK(M), 7 yrs  |
No, you're bob on.
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| 20 Jan 09, 4:34 PM Miss_Despotic UK(M), 5 yrs    |
Absolutely | ||
| 20 Jan 09, 4:37 PM MissP UK(EN), 8 yrs |
Is the correct answer
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| 20 Jan 09, 4:40 PM Jahc99 UK, 5 yrs |
I find it hard to believe he could possibly be worse than the shrub! Why poison your liver when I could eat it for you? | ||
| 20 Jan 09, 4:49 PM SimplySal 6 yrs |
I caught a snippet of News 24's breakfast program this morning - I can't remember her name but the woman being interviewed maintained that if Barack fulfilled only a third of the things he's promised, she'd be satisfied. I think most candidates for political positions have a good line in spiel to reel in the voters. It's a matter of cutting thro' the crap and working out what bits are actually viable and what bits are the lacey decoration on the knickers of reality. To be is to do - Plato | ||
| 20 Jan 09, 4:49 PM DomChef UK(N), 7 yrs |
It's weird to see someone have such an affect on the world before he's even done anything. I think the yanks have finally realised how much they fucked up with bush, and the effect it's had on the rest of the world, lets hope this one does what it says on the tin for once! Mind you..... watching the whole inauguration live feels like an episode of 24. It feels like any minute now, the president will be flanked by security and Jack Bauer will come flying down off the roof. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king - and there's dog shit everywhere! | ||
| 20 Jan 09, 4:52 PM x_Thunder_x UK(E), 9 yrs    |
Uhhuh - he has good speech writers, excellent political machine , shrewd operator Probably the best of the presidential candidates BUT I'm always suspicious of Democratic Presidents whether it be the Kennedys the Clintons , Truman, Carter, LBJ . They talk the talk but seldom walk the walk . He appeals to those who believe in the "American Dream" , "Land Of The Free" (whatever that is, bearing in mind racial segregation in the South still existed till the sixties.) Panders to those who think "we defeated the British" as he said in one of his speeches (ignoring the fact that a number of British settlers declared UDI and George thought the colonies were an expensive luxury anyway) When I hear people saying he has "arisen from the slave classes" I recall he was born in Hawaii with a Kenyan professor father and is not a descendant of slaves Yes it is good that the US have elected what appears to be the best candidate , in spite of the colour of his skin, but something niggles me. ^Thunder^ |
