Exactly what I was hoping for.

[misterdna]

I haven't wanted to go into my politics about why I was going to vote for Obama, but the video above pretty much illustrates a huge portion of it.

(And if for some reason the video doesn't work here you can see it here along with the accompanying BBC story.)

As a friend of mine said in his LJ today...

Think about this

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[pantarch]

I agree! And, while I accept Klink's idea that a more substantial change would be sending the population of the American South on a year abroad (imagine that!), at least this should encourage other countries to give us a chance to repair our busted image; that maybe since this president looks different, maybe we can change from the disastrous path we have been on.

I think one of the unsung reasons I liked Obama so much at the start of the primaries was that he was a smoker. I thought it would look cool to see a President looking like Nat King Cole cutting a weed in the Rose Garden and flicking aside a Camel before telling the Russians to go fuck themselves.

But, like all great men, his wife caused him to give up the Habit that Made America Great:

From Men's Health:

"Michelle had been putting pressure on me to quit for a while . . . There have been a couple of times during the campaign when I fell off the wagon and bummed one, and I had to kick it again. But I figure, seeing as I'm running for president, I need to cut myself a little slack."

Hell, yes you do. You just lost the New Hampshire Primary, "Light me, Johnny!"

Maybe the President-Elect needs to hear about Eclipse. And maybe that is the new ad campaign:

"Shhhhhhhhh . . . Michelle will ever know."