It is midday Wednesday November 5th when the British people, in theory, celebrate the failure of one named Guy Fawkes, to blow up the British Parliament, using gun power. I say in theory because I am confident that the majority of young people whose parents have bought fireworks, or who are taken to organised firework displays, do not know or are interested in the origins of this annual event. It has been noticeable that this year there has been very little of the advance use of fireworks, except for the evening last week when I set off for the post box midway down the hill. Nor were fireworks necessary to accompany the speech of President Elect Senator Obama in the early hours of British time, around 5 am, as he addressed some 70000 ticket holders in the central park in Chicago and with estimated 150000 assembled nearby. It was wise decision of the President Elect and the Democratic Party not to assume electoral victory and recalibrating his speech from one of unmitigated triumph to a mixture of celebration, marking the historic nature of the event, and preparing a very excited people for the difficult time ahead in the next four years in terms of economic reality and implementing domestic policy.
The Majority of the USA voting public, and significantly over 50%, had declared their support for a man whose father was born in Kenya, and where his paternal grandmother still lives to this day, who attended a school in Indonesia, who then was raised by his maternal grandmother in Hawaii after the premature death of his mother from cancer, a woman who sadly died just a few days before voting day and whose funeral he will no doubt be attending if not today, over the next couple of days. So the next President of the United States of America is of mixed race, married to an Afro American and with a Muslim and Arab sounding name. I doubt whether anyone is able to say with confidence what the full impact of this will be on the world and on the future of the USA, except that it has fundamentally changed how the USA will see itself from this point and how the rest of the world will view the USA from this day on.
Standing in the packed VIP area in the Chicago Park was the Rev Jesse Jackson, the Civil Rights Leader who was alongside the Rev Martin Luther King when he was assassinated, and who had previously expressed misgivings about the Obama Candidacy because he did not represent the black Americans whose ancestors had been slaves, or was known to have belonged to contemporary civil rights movement, and who indeed had as a result of his own hard work and educational opportunity become an educated and cultured middles class American and a loyal Senator to the cause of the Democratic Party. He was not a confrontational politician or a black man with a chip on his shoulder about his background. The Rev Jackson stood as part of the crowd waving a USA flag with tears streaming down his face in the joy of hearing Senator Obama echo the words of Martin Luther King and President Kennedy nearly half a century ago, as the first step in the dream was accomplished and he called upon the population of the United States to rise up to meet contemporary challenges together and move away from opposing change for the sake of opposition, but also opposing change just for the sake of change and failing to concentrate on tackling problems in the best ways available irrespective of ideology, policies and programmes. It was evident that at one level he was moving the Presidency towards becoming a unifying head of state, and a world leader cutting across traditional political party divisions.
He had also shown himself not to be the bogey man figure which elements of the core Republican party had tried to represent in an attempt to maintain their traditional supporters. There was the blatant attempt to play on the fear of Muslim terrorist Fundamentalism by pointing to his association with a church whose pastor had expressed extreme views in the past, albeit that the church was Christian evangelical. Through the appointment of Governor Palin of Alaska McCain hoped to appeal to the gun hunting evangelical fundamentalists of middle America, people who not so long ago were bulldog racists and members of Klu Klux Clan.. Governor Palin also represented the strong wing within the Republican Party, and indeed some within the Democratic Party who regard any national government intervention on domestic matters as at best socialism and one heart beat away from communism. They ignored the fact that Senator Obama is not a man who sees representing the interests of the under class as a priority, his first commitment is to hard working citizens, and those who want to work if the are given the opportunity.
It will be interesting to see if he is able to pursue his headline policy of tax cuts before increases in public expenditure, a policy which would have the support of the majority across party political lines and which in turn would mean the chances of introducing affordable health care within his first term unlikely. He problem is that however much he might hope and believe that is possible the achieve cuts and maintain public expenditure cutting wasteful expenditure, this is impossible. Any cut in programmes or efficiency savings does mean a loss of jobs in other areas. Save a million dollars on the use of use of paper clips and the paper clip manufacturer will cut jobs not profit., and redistributing taxation by hitting the richest individuals and companies means that they will just take themselves and their money elsewhere.
British Prime Minister Brown is right when he argues that the Liberal Democratic Party policy in the UK of reducing taxes means in reality cuts in public expenditure. The UK Labour Government solution is to borrow substantial funds, thus increasing the national debt and spending more money on public projects especially on bringing forward the rolling programme of public capital works.
It will be interesting to see if President Obama does attempt to create a more effective and universal health care programme and also ensures that young people from all backgrounds are able to proceed to university education and from that education into appropriate work activity commensurate with their education and learning training. It will also be important if he is able to stem the loss of home ownership as indeed the Labour Government is aiming to achieve in the UK. However calling for interest rate reductions to be passed on the general public by the banks, for the reductions in oil prices to result in cuts in petrol prices at the pumps impresses no one unless it happens in practice.
There are also three important political issues which will indicate whether President Obama is able to change the political landscape in the USA and establish greater authority for his nation in the world.
The first is not the USA reducing involvement in Iraq or increasing military resources in Afghanistan, but bringing about acceptance of the State of Israel in the Arab Muslim world and establishing a viable and economically developing Palestinian state. He will need to reduce the military emphasis in Iraq but not civil reconstruction and peace keeping. He also needs to take the lead in eliminating Muslim Terrorist threat from Pakistan and Afghanistan, together with smashing heroin production in Afghanistan and the power of the War Lords, and if the Afghan government cannot do this then he needs to take the lead in doing it for them.
Secondly he needs to take the lead in ensuring the meaningful aid, in terms of food, clothing and health care, is directed at those most in needy across the globe and not redirected towards the wealth of individuals or providing the military hardware for them to gain or retain power. Thirdly he needs to also give a lead in tackling the energy and environmental issues across the globe. There is a danger that he will revert back to the more popular protectionist policies in the short term. To make the kind of progress which will tackle these global issues it will mean high energy prices to the consumers and increases in food prices without compensatory increases in incomes. As in the UK everyone is willing to sign up to meeting the costs in terms of food and energy prices if the money does go to raising living standards elsewhere and does not go into shareholder profits.
Nor should the euphoria at his election prevent attention being focussed on what happened on election day USA. The President Elect praised those who stood in line in the open air for hours to cast their vote, That they had to do this is a scandal and while they have to continue to do this the USA abdicates it moral authority over the holding of democratic elections. Why were halls of sufficient size not arranged? Don't they have school sport and assembly halls the USA as we have in the UK? Why did States not have the right number of voting machines and booths and appointed the personnel necessary? Why did the Democratic Party need to arrange for several thousand lawyers to ensure that there was no voting fix in Florida and elsewhere?
It is also a pity that it looks that while the Democratic Party has increased it Majority the Senate as well as in Congress, it does not have the 60 40 vote to prevent Presidential and Democratic sponsored Bill from being prevented from passing by the device of talking out. If however the Republicans do use this power then the President should seek to remove this power and if necessary making it the Presidential Election issue for 2012.
This also raises the future of the Republican party which is now in danger of coming to represent only hard core white conservatism, racism, middle America evangelism and uncontrolled free enterprise, capitalism and anarchical individualism. If some of these interests do not have a democratic voice they become more extreme but racism and uncontrolled free enterprise should have no place in a major political party.
Any party concentrating on voicing these issues quickly loses international and national credibility as did the Conservative Party in the UK post Margaret Thatcher and the parallel is valid because President Elect Obama reminds very much of Tony Blair but with even greater charisma, depth and power. The President, because he is of mixed race and colour, can be expected to have an enormous impact internationally and this in turn will only further polarise the Republicans between their extremists and those who will want to follow the Cameron and Tory Party example in the UK and swing the party into a more centre left position. They should not rely on Obama making a major mistake like supporting American intervention in Iraq without also ensuring there was an effective plan for political and economic reconstruction, not should they expect the new President to fail in he management of economy
It was evident by Prime Minister's Question Time today that the Conservative response is to try and cast themselves as the Obama Party and the Labour as the Bush Administration. This will not work although it is difficult to see what else they can try and do without going in the opposite direction and represent the hard core conservatism racist anti European elements in the UK presently divided between UKIP and the National front with Liberal Democrats holding the centre left ground.
Yesterday was a slow grey and damp day with an early start after going to bed at might night. I felt I needed more sleep but had an hour of discomfort, getting up several times in quick succession, with exceptional dry mouths, fistfuls of sleep and some dreams.
I kept an eye on news programmes, British teams in Washington, BBC, ITV and Sky. And CNN and Fox. Unlike the UK campaigning continues on election day although it was McCain who felt the need for one more rally and speech which was covered on the news channels. Four of the five channels attempted to maintain some neutrality, reporting the latest polls and their limitations, ensuring that comments from one party spokes person or loyalist with one from the other. The exception is Fox which is blatant Conservative, Right Wing and Palin Republican with doubts about McCain policies.
There was one film which achieved critical appreciation when it was released and where I debated going to see theatre but held back. It is in fact a film more suited for TV and the cinema unless one is young and into head banging punk rock. The film Control is about the short life of Ian Curtis, born the year after I left school and who committed suicide in 1980. It is without doubt the best film of its kind I have seen and this includes biopics of Janis Joplin and Brian Jones. This was unexpected and not my initial reaction. There is one major problem with the film in that we have no clue at what led to Ian becoming as he did. This may be due to the film based on the perception of his wife based on her written account of their relationship and where she acted as a co producer of the film. There is nothing about his nuclear extended family except that he was born in old Trafford Manchester and was raised in Macclesfield Cheshire in a grim block of concrete flats and one short of both parents and younger sister.
Unlike many rock stars where music becomes their only means of making something of their lives, Ian was talented academically and creatively with a love of poetry and words and able to both recite traditional poets such as Wordsworth as well as write his own work. While at school it is believe he had his had the first indication of suffering from epilepsy,. Ian was awarded a scholarship to attend the renowned King's School in Macclesfield run as a grammar school and it is here he met and formed a relationship with his wife, marrying at the age nineteen to his first love then aged eighteen, and where unusually for a marriage at such an early age this was something he wanted to do rather than needed or was pressed into doing.
While he was interested in writing and in art generally the film shows him as attending rock and punk concerts such as David Bowie and Sex Pistols rather than singing in groups. When Ian left school he not only married but became a civil servant working for the Department of Employment helping people to find employment and which suggests that he obtained educational certificates at basic and higher levels and such things may have been included in the various books now written about his short life.
Ian and other members of what became the Joy Division attended the Sex Pistols concert in Manchester with less than fifty in the audience but that performance inspired many others to attempt to establish bands in the same mode, reflecting how they experienced the world and viewed life in as freely expressive a way as possible.
The three musicians advertised for a singer and Ian applied and because they knew him from beforehand he was selected without an audition. Ian did not have an outstanding voice and was a typical office worker in his dress and appearance, continuing to work as a civil servant, and after concerts back to his now pregnant wife in their own home. He smoked and drank but there is no suggestion of excess although he continued to drink after his first major epileptic fit and being advised against doing so and needing to take plenty of rest and early nights, in part because of the side effects of the four drugs he was required to take and doctors attempted to find as a pattern of drug taking which would limited the seizures both in intensity and frequency.
Knowing someone in the past who also suffered from epilepsy I learnt something of the sense of having no control which affects sufferers deeply especially if they are young and embarking upon work and relationships. There is also the historical public prejudice and reaction to known sufferers of the disease. The band started to be successful used £400 of savings to produce an extended LP record and gained themselves a manager and record company and work around England and in Europe. It was while on tour that Ian met Annik Honore, I believe a musical journalist, and they became lovers. A relationship which continued until his death. There is reference to Ian having other casual relationships but it was the relationship with his wife and with his lover that was one cause of the depression which led to his premature death. It is evident that he needed both women but understood the impact his infidelity had upon his wife and which led her to wanting a divorce and living apart, and also on Annik. The first album was well received and this led to being invited to make a short tour in the USA something with few British artists get to do, then and now. I then come to the third force at work leading to his death. Ian was one of those artists who put their whole being into every performance. They emotionally and psychologically bleed and this takes its toll. It is believed that this combination of divided loyalties between wife, daughter and lover, the anxiety of his illness and its management and his growing dislike of live performance together with the increasing media interest and requirements that were the casual factors, together with that in his childhood and family background unknown to me.
There is nothing glamorous about the life Ian and the band led, travelling in inexpensive vehicles and using cheap hotels and without the usual trappings of pop star wealth and life style. I have never been a fan of head banging punk music, but it says something of the performance of actor Sam Riley who looks uncannily like Ian that I wanted to immediately hear one of the two albums on which he performed.
There is no abatement in the flow of offers to deliver ready cooked meals to my door. The latest is from Pizza Porter 0191456 6660 which includes a good selection of Pizza's plus a limited selection of Kebabs, Wraps, Burgers, Pastas, Fish and Chips. This is an off note to close what could prove to have been one of the important days doe the future of not just the USA but the world. I see the main role of Barrack not in what he does in domestic politics where his party and the Republicans will need to slog it out but his impact as a world leader, especially in meeting the leaders of the Middle East, Africa and the Far East. He should also be a guilty reminder to the White leaders of the West of how much more they have go in their own countries. What is next? Well for the USA a native female American would be great, or perhaps his wife!
The Majority of the USA voting public, and significantly over 50%, had declared their support for a man whose father was born in Kenya, and where his paternal grandmother still lives to this day, who attended a school in Indonesia, who then was raised by his maternal grandmother in Hawaii after the premature death of his mother from cancer, a woman who sadly died just a few days before voting day and whose funeral he will no doubt be attending if not today, over the next couple of days. So the next President of the United States of America is of mixed race, married to an Afro American and with a Muslim and Arab sounding name. I doubt whether anyone is able to say with confidence what the full impact of this will be on the world and on the future of the USA, except that it has fundamentally changed how the USA will see itself from this point and how the rest of the world will view the USA from this day on.
Standing in the packed VIP area in the Chicago Park was the Rev Jesse Jackson, the Civil Rights Leader who was alongside the Rev Martin Luther King when he was assassinated, and who had previously expressed misgivings about the Obama Candidacy because he did not represent the black Americans whose ancestors had been slaves, or was known to have belonged to contemporary civil rights movement, and who indeed had as a result of his own hard work and educational opportunity become an educated and cultured middles class American and a loyal Senator to the cause of the Democratic Party. He was not a confrontational politician or a black man with a chip on his shoulder about his background. The Rev Jackson stood as part of the crowd waving a USA flag with tears streaming down his face in the joy of hearing Senator Obama echo the words of Martin Luther King and President Kennedy nearly half a century ago, as the first step in the dream was accomplished and he called upon the population of the United States to rise up to meet contemporary challenges together and move away from opposing change for the sake of opposition, but also opposing change just for the sake of change and failing to concentrate on tackling problems in the best ways available irrespective of ideology, policies and programmes. It was evident that at one level he was moving the Presidency towards becoming a unifying head of state, and a world leader cutting across traditional political party divisions.
He had also shown himself not to be the bogey man figure which elements of the core Republican party had tried to represent in an attempt to maintain their traditional supporters. There was the blatant attempt to play on the fear of Muslim terrorist Fundamentalism by pointing to his association with a church whose pastor had expressed extreme views in the past, albeit that the church was Christian evangelical. Through the appointment of Governor Palin of Alaska McCain hoped to appeal to the gun hunting evangelical fundamentalists of middle America, people who not so long ago were bulldog racists and members of Klu Klux Clan.. Governor Palin also represented the strong wing within the Republican Party, and indeed some within the Democratic Party who regard any national government intervention on domestic matters as at best socialism and one heart beat away from communism. They ignored the fact that Senator Obama is not a man who sees representing the interests of the under class as a priority, his first commitment is to hard working citizens, and those who want to work if the are given the opportunity.
It will be interesting to see if he is able to pursue his headline policy of tax cuts before increases in public expenditure, a policy which would have the support of the majority across party political lines and which in turn would mean the chances of introducing affordable health care within his first term unlikely. He problem is that however much he might hope and believe that is possible the achieve cuts and maintain public expenditure cutting wasteful expenditure, this is impossible. Any cut in programmes or efficiency savings does mean a loss of jobs in other areas. Save a million dollars on the use of use of paper clips and the paper clip manufacturer will cut jobs not profit., and redistributing taxation by hitting the richest individuals and companies means that they will just take themselves and their money elsewhere.
British Prime Minister Brown is right when he argues that the Liberal Democratic Party policy in the UK of reducing taxes means in reality cuts in public expenditure. The UK Labour Government solution is to borrow substantial funds, thus increasing the national debt and spending more money on public projects especially on bringing forward the rolling programme of public capital works.
It will be interesting to see if President Obama does attempt to create a more effective and universal health care programme and also ensures that young people from all backgrounds are able to proceed to university education and from that education into appropriate work activity commensurate with their education and learning training. It will also be important if he is able to stem the loss of home ownership as indeed the Labour Government is aiming to achieve in the UK. However calling for interest rate reductions to be passed on the general public by the banks, for the reductions in oil prices to result in cuts in petrol prices at the pumps impresses no one unless it happens in practice.
There are also three important political issues which will indicate whether President Obama is able to change the political landscape in the USA and establish greater authority for his nation in the world.
The first is not the USA reducing involvement in Iraq or increasing military resources in Afghanistan, but bringing about acceptance of the State of Israel in the Arab Muslim world and establishing a viable and economically developing Palestinian state. He will need to reduce the military emphasis in Iraq but not civil reconstruction and peace keeping. He also needs to take the lead in eliminating Muslim Terrorist threat from Pakistan and Afghanistan, together with smashing heroin production in Afghanistan and the power of the War Lords, and if the Afghan government cannot do this then he needs to take the lead in doing it for them.
Secondly he needs to take the lead in ensuring the meaningful aid, in terms of food, clothing and health care, is directed at those most in needy across the globe and not redirected towards the wealth of individuals or providing the military hardware for them to gain or retain power. Thirdly he needs to also give a lead in tackling the energy and environmental issues across the globe. There is a danger that he will revert back to the more popular protectionist policies in the short term. To make the kind of progress which will tackle these global issues it will mean high energy prices to the consumers and increases in food prices without compensatory increases in incomes. As in the UK everyone is willing to sign up to meeting the costs in terms of food and energy prices if the money does go to raising living standards elsewhere and does not go into shareholder profits.
Nor should the euphoria at his election prevent attention being focussed on what happened on election day USA. The President Elect praised those who stood in line in the open air for hours to cast their vote, That they had to do this is a scandal and while they have to continue to do this the USA abdicates it moral authority over the holding of democratic elections. Why were halls of sufficient size not arranged? Don't they have school sport and assembly halls the USA as we have in the UK? Why did States not have the right number of voting machines and booths and appointed the personnel necessary? Why did the Democratic Party need to arrange for several thousand lawyers to ensure that there was no voting fix in Florida and elsewhere?
It is also a pity that it looks that while the Democratic Party has increased it Majority the Senate as well as in Congress, it does not have the 60 40 vote to prevent Presidential and Democratic sponsored Bill from being prevented from passing by the device of talking out. If however the Republicans do use this power then the President should seek to remove this power and if necessary making it the Presidential Election issue for 2012.
This also raises the future of the Republican party which is now in danger of coming to represent only hard core white conservatism, racism, middle America evangelism and uncontrolled free enterprise, capitalism and anarchical individualism. If some of these interests do not have a democratic voice they become more extreme but racism and uncontrolled free enterprise should have no place in a major political party.
Any party concentrating on voicing these issues quickly loses international and national credibility as did the Conservative Party in the UK post Margaret Thatcher and the parallel is valid because President Elect Obama reminds very much of Tony Blair but with even greater charisma, depth and power. The President, because he is of mixed race and colour, can be expected to have an enormous impact internationally and this in turn will only further polarise the Republicans between their extremists and those who will want to follow the Cameron and Tory Party example in the UK and swing the party into a more centre left position. They should not rely on Obama making a major mistake like supporting American intervention in Iraq without also ensuring there was an effective plan for political and economic reconstruction, not should they expect the new President to fail in he management of economy
It was evident by Prime Minister's Question Time today that the Conservative response is to try and cast themselves as the Obama Party and the Labour as the Bush Administration. This will not work although it is difficult to see what else they can try and do without going in the opposite direction and represent the hard core conservatism racist anti European elements in the UK presently divided between UKIP and the National front with Liberal Democrats holding the centre left ground.
Yesterday was a slow grey and damp day with an early start after going to bed at might night. I felt I needed more sleep but had an hour of discomfort, getting up several times in quick succession, with exceptional dry mouths, fistfuls of sleep and some dreams.
I kept an eye on news programmes, British teams in Washington, BBC, ITV and Sky. And CNN and Fox. Unlike the UK campaigning continues on election day although it was McCain who felt the need for one more rally and speech which was covered on the news channels. Four of the five channels attempted to maintain some neutrality, reporting the latest polls and their limitations, ensuring that comments from one party spokes person or loyalist with one from the other. The exception is Fox which is blatant Conservative, Right Wing and Palin Republican with doubts about McCain policies.
There was one film which achieved critical appreciation when it was released and where I debated going to see theatre but held back. It is in fact a film more suited for TV and the cinema unless one is young and into head banging punk rock. The film Control is about the short life of Ian Curtis, born the year after I left school and who committed suicide in 1980. It is without doubt the best film of its kind I have seen and this includes biopics of Janis Joplin and Brian Jones. This was unexpected and not my initial reaction. There is one major problem with the film in that we have no clue at what led to Ian becoming as he did. This may be due to the film based on the perception of his wife based on her written account of their relationship and where she acted as a co producer of the film. There is nothing about his nuclear extended family except that he was born in old Trafford Manchester and was raised in Macclesfield Cheshire in a grim block of concrete flats and one short of both parents and younger sister.
Unlike many rock stars where music becomes their only means of making something of their lives, Ian was talented academically and creatively with a love of poetry and words and able to both recite traditional poets such as Wordsworth as well as write his own work. While at school it is believe he had his had the first indication of suffering from epilepsy,. Ian was awarded a scholarship to attend the renowned King's School in Macclesfield run as a grammar school and it is here he met and formed a relationship with his wife, marrying at the age nineteen to his first love then aged eighteen, and where unusually for a marriage at such an early age this was something he wanted to do rather than needed or was pressed into doing.
While he was interested in writing and in art generally the film shows him as attending rock and punk concerts such as David Bowie and Sex Pistols rather than singing in groups. When Ian left school he not only married but became a civil servant working for the Department of Employment helping people to find employment and which suggests that he obtained educational certificates at basic and higher levels and such things may have been included in the various books now written about his short life.
Ian and other members of what became the Joy Division attended the Sex Pistols concert in Manchester with less than fifty in the audience but that performance inspired many others to attempt to establish bands in the same mode, reflecting how they experienced the world and viewed life in as freely expressive a way as possible.
The three musicians advertised for a singer and Ian applied and because they knew him from beforehand he was selected without an audition. Ian did not have an outstanding voice and was a typical office worker in his dress and appearance, continuing to work as a civil servant, and after concerts back to his now pregnant wife in their own home. He smoked and drank but there is no suggestion of excess although he continued to drink after his first major epileptic fit and being advised against doing so and needing to take plenty of rest and early nights, in part because of the side effects of the four drugs he was required to take and doctors attempted to find as a pattern of drug taking which would limited the seizures both in intensity and frequency.
Knowing someone in the past who also suffered from epilepsy I learnt something of the sense of having no control which affects sufferers deeply especially if they are young and embarking upon work and relationships. There is also the historical public prejudice and reaction to known sufferers of the disease. The band started to be successful used £400 of savings to produce an extended LP record and gained themselves a manager and record company and work around England and in Europe. It was while on tour that Ian met Annik Honore, I believe a musical journalist, and they became lovers. A relationship which continued until his death. There is reference to Ian having other casual relationships but it was the relationship with his wife and with his lover that was one cause of the depression which led to his premature death. It is evident that he needed both women but understood the impact his infidelity had upon his wife and which led her to wanting a divorce and living apart, and also on Annik. The first album was well received and this led to being invited to make a short tour in the USA something with few British artists get to do, then and now. I then come to the third force at work leading to his death. Ian was one of those artists who put their whole being into every performance. They emotionally and psychologically bleed and this takes its toll. It is believed that this combination of divided loyalties between wife, daughter and lover, the anxiety of his illness and its management and his growing dislike of live performance together with the increasing media interest and requirements that were the casual factors, together with that in his childhood and family background unknown to me.
There is nothing glamorous about the life Ian and the band led, travelling in inexpensive vehicles and using cheap hotels and without the usual trappings of pop star wealth and life style. I have never been a fan of head banging punk music, but it says something of the performance of actor Sam Riley who looks uncannily like Ian that I wanted to immediately hear one of the two albums on which he performed.
There is no abatement in the flow of offers to deliver ready cooked meals to my door. The latest is from Pizza Porter 0191456 6660 which includes a good selection of Pizza's plus a limited selection of Kebabs, Wraps, Burgers, Pastas, Fish and Chips. This is an off note to close what could prove to have been one of the important days doe the future of not just the USA but the world. I see the main role of Barrack not in what he does in domestic politics where his party and the Republicans will need to slog it out but his impact as a world leader, especially in meeting the leaders of the Middle East, Africa and the Far East. He should also be a guilty reminder to the White leaders of the West of how much more they have go in their own countries. What is next? Well for the USA a native female American would be great, or perhaps his wife!
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