The Obama effect - from London

[almostwitty]

- At a gig last night, comedian Mark Thomas said: “After tomorrow, it will now be safe for Americans to hold their hands up when a comedian asks if there are any Americans in the room. You are no longer a symbol of tragedy, violence and brutality …… any Israelis in?”

- There was some BBC coverage from a college in Tottenham, where the mostly-black

Comments

[kiri_l]

Is there NEVER any sunshine for you people?

[almostwitty]

To be fair, when Aretha sang and Obama talked, the crowd went quiet - which is relatively appreciative ;)

Off topic

[nicnac]

After discussions over your Xmas pressie, I thought you might want to read this.

Re: Off topic

[almostwitty]

Fascinating. Thank you.

I'm not immune to chasing after labels - part of me wants a Pioneer TV after all - but I'm not willing to pay over the odds for it... but this deserves a seperate blog topic!

[choirgrrl]

Well, you got me thinking, so I went off in search of Dubbie's first speech...
"President Clinton, distinguished guests and my fellow citizens, the peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country."
Too bad that thanks to him, all of that went to shit.

First line, peace is one of the first things mentioned. The further one reads, the more eerie the whole thing sounds- it's almost as though he were giving his own precautionary sermon on the mount. The guy gives me the creeps, and I'm SO glad he is out of office!

http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres66.html

[anivair]

Of course Bush made those promises. the difference is that Bush was a trained monkey. A trained EVIL monkey. And Obama's not.

When he says he's going to try and fix things, I believe him. When Bush said it, i wanted to tell him that his pants were on fire.

Makes all the difference.