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Spattered with the rainbow spooge of the candy-coloured orgasm of relief and uplift that was the Obama inauguration?  Kick back and mock some Obama merch.  Not only is he going to right wrongs (actually, pressing "pause" on gulag guantanomo and appointing Mitchell to the Middle East (instrumental in Northern Ireland under Clinton) is a damn fine start), he's also going to take on the Sith!  And he's a ninja!  And he can dance! 

Prediction: Chuck Norris jokes refactored for Obama by the weekend.

( Behind the cut: Obama vs Cheney as it really was! )

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)?