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 students were all glued to their big screens

- For most of today, it was business as usual. Then as soon as Obama’s face showed up on the monitors, people started drifting away from their desks to the big-screen television on the top floor. People started sticking their heads out of meeting rooms. By the time Obama came to spoke, the desks were relatively empty.

- Huge laughter came up when the Reverend started saying: “we are grateful to be Americans”. Bless, you haven’t lost your gift for hyperbole…

- The inauguration music was apparently composed by John Williams - the same man who composed, amongst other things, the themes to Superman and Indiana Jones. The temptation to slip a couple of Superman bars in must have been over-whelming…

I’m just wondering whether Dubya made promises to unite the nation, be friends to the world and give everyone unlimited rice pudding in his inauguration speeches. But at least Obama’s got a free pass for a year or so, I think. Then again, we gave one to Bush after 9/11 and look what happened… oh, and Jon Stewart compares Bush & Obama’s inauguration speeches…

PS: Only real Doctor Who geeks will get this…

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Comments

[kiri-l.livejournal.com]

Is there NEVER any sunshine for you people?

Off topic

[nicnac.livejournal.com]

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

[choirgrrl.livejournal.com]

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.livejournal.com]

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.