In summary:

[andygates]

In the words of Warwick LPMUD, "McCain is massacred into tiny fragments with devastating force."  

Sometimes the fun is in the game, sometimes it's in the crushing victory.

Good work, guys. 

Comments

[andygates.livejournal.com]

The first term wasn't too bad. It hit the toilet when the George and Tony Show decided to start a war. Obama has, at least, come out against *this* war: it's no guarantee that he won't balls it up, but if you want guarantees, you should be looking at religion, not politics.

This guy doesn't pretend climate change doesn't exist. He's not a born-again antiscience asshat who goes with his gut: he's got a reputation for getting a good team of advisers together and listening to them, not editing their reports where the conclusions are unwelcome. We're a sight closer to getting a sequel to Kyoto with him than with McCain.

I'm not expecting the White House puppy to be a unicorn, but it's a damn sight better than the other guy and a damn sight better than the last eight years.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

He also subscribes to the Powell Doctrine as regards military action. This is a Good Thing.

[despaer.livejournal.com]

The first term only wasn't too bad because the economic damage they started to wreak didn't impact directly enough on anyone for them to notice and the economy was so easy to drive at that stage that nobody paid attention to what they were doing.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

I'm not an economist so I can't comment.

[despaer.livejournal.com]

Good things they did - Introduce the minimum wage, give interest rate setting to the Bank of England

Bad things they did - introduce the tax on pension dividends, move our system of taxation over to one done by stealth rather than obvious means (income tax and vat), set the housing boom in motion.

Credit where it is due, it wasn't all bad but the problem was that the bad stuff was done in an underhand way (remember how everyone used to think that they were prudent with tax revenue?) and we will be paying through either increased taxation or high inflation for this for about 10 years starting in about 2010 or 2011.

Of course I may be talking cobblers, so if I am hopefully this blog entry will have been buried deep under all Gates' other stuff by then :)