Nobel Peace Prize ? Baracks!

I’ve been puzzling about why on earth a president who has been in power a few months and hasn’t closed down Guantanamo, withdrawn troops from Iraq and Afghanistan or indeed done anything to advance world peace apart from the obvious act of replacing Bush…….(crikey! long sentence!)
has received the Nobel Peace Prize.
It has to be because [...]

Fly Guy

WASHINGTON (AP) — The group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants the flyswatter in chief to try taking a more humane attitude the next time he’s bedeviled by a fly in the White House.
PETA is sending President Barack Obama a Katcha Bug Humane Bug Catcher, a device that allows [...]

Caption Competition

Click here for the story, although if you’re prone to nausea it may be best avoided.
Nae prizes but the winner will have the picture re-done with speech bubbles of their suggestion.
*Stands back and waits for Stu*

Good Luck Obama (2)

I know that a couple of my correspondents have been a bit cynical about Barack Obama and whether he will bring any real change to the USA and the world.
But he already has.
I watched the news last night and one of the Little Rock Nine Terrence Roberts was interviewed.

Only half a century ago the National [...]

Get Real

I had a pretty busy day yesterday but did manage to scan some of the Sunday papers. Some stories in particular were heavilly featured in the Scottish press, chief amongst them, the afterglow of the Obama victory in the States.
The burden of expectation on Obama is becoming heavier by the day. What has happened in [...]

The Aftermath

Just watched Obama’s victory speech made in front of cheering masses in Chicago. Not surprisingly he quoted from Abraham Lincoln, John F Kennedy and Martin Luther King. He spoke about an old woman of 106 who had voted, and the changes that she had witnessed in the USA during that time. [...]

It’s Obama!

In a combination of insomnia and battling the symptoms of the lurgy, I turned on the TV to find out that Barack Obama has taken Ohio and Virginia. These are THE bellwether states and means that the USA has almost certainly elected its first ever African American president. I say well done to him. Well [...]

Makes You Think!

Thanks to Boing Boing for this:
The best part of Hendrik Hertzberg’s excellent New Yorker commentary about McCain and Palin’s failed attempt to convince people that Obama is a socialist is the final paragraph containing this boast from Gov. Sarah Palin:
The state that she governs has no income or sales tax. Instead, it imposes huge levies [...]

Obama’s Latest Campaign Photo?

Thanks to Alastair for this. At least half of this blog’s readers are from the USA. Study this photo closely before deciding who to vote for in November.

To Inhale or Not to Inhale…..

My correspondent 1st Lady says she ‘doesn’t inhale’ (see comments on Optical Illusion) and this brought back memories of the Clinton furore in 1992 when he was running for president and said he’s tried marijuana but ‘didn’t like it and didn’t inhale’.  I wonder from the clip below if we can deduce that Barack Obama  [...]