What do you mean, he's not president?

[andygates]

Obama's world tour is going great guns: they took him seriously in the Middle East and in Berlin two hundred thousand people turned out pretty much to anoint his feet with oil.  Two hundred thousand for a candidate they can't even elect.  Seems that he's pitching this as the Next Leader Of The Free World Tour and the rest of us out here in the world, we pretty much like that. 

Let's face it after eight years of Captain Catastrophe, Barney the frakking Dinosaur would be an improvement but I'm not seeing simple relief here, I'm seeing desperate relief and a thread of actual, genuine, Kennedy-flavoured optimism.  Crikey.

I wonder how much impact this will have on his electability in the US (you know, where his voters are)? 

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[andygates.livejournal.com]

Easy, tiger.

I think the glum convictions are wrong. But we'll see, eh?

As for the rest, I ain't accusing you. But I am accusing the nation. I accuse the UK much the same way, and I've beaten myself up until I'm numb over not doing enough to stop the damn mess.

Bah. Tacitus was grumpy about this in umpty-ump BCE. It's hardly news. Maybe we're just wrong, and the idiocracy is the One Right And True Way. Fancy a can of Brawndo? It's got electrolytes!