I remember when Blair got voted in, and there was this same feeling of hpe, of "things can only get better". How rock n roll he was with Noel Gallagher partying at no.10 and pretty much all of britpop behind him. The young go getter, ready to shake up years of Major/Thatcher rule. oss aside the grey man and bring in Ozzy Osbourne. We're heading for a new England.
And it almost feels the same, a change gonn' come a, hip hop and rock backed, toss aside the grey man and bring in Jay-Z. We're heading for a new America.
Except we knoe presidents don;t run countries, there's no way Bush could have coped, and unfortunately an African American puppet is still a puppet controlled by a white hand. The quest for oil and military flexing of muscles isn't going to end anytime soon, but for the average working class American, life may well improve. Of course, that's not why the world watches American politics so closely.
As my friend Pete said, it's the eqivalent of getting punched in the stomach rather than the face.
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It's better than immediate dissapointment I suppose.
More important matters - where is your itchiest itch?
Hmm, i do see your point. I respect it, too! for a lighter side of things check out barney's latest musing :)
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=8602411&blogID=447245230
peace and love, itch x
i couldn't agree more, if anything, the election of obama could be detrimental, it seems like its played into the hands of perveyors of that age old fable "anyone can grow up to be president". When clearly they can't be.
Obama's campaign had the potential to cost the cumulative gross product of the 5 poorest nations (if you take the potential cost to be the $350m raised and add the GDP's of the bottom five nations according to the CIA world factbook for 2007)
It shows you must be part of some considerable elite to become president!
sells newspapers though
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