Bearing in mind the amount of breakage that Obama has to “fix”, and his oft-quoted catchphrase “yes we can”, he is now, in both our minds, “Barack the Builder”…

“and not in the inconsistent and jerky way that it was during Bush’s second term.”

By the way, good luck with the Israeli elections.

Heh.* The argument is already being made that Israel must re-elect Kadima because a Likud government would be unable to deal with Obama, hence jeopardising Israel’s international position.** Despite Kadima being (a) a gang of criminals, (b) completely incompetent and (c) proven completely wrong on their core founding policy (the Gaza pullout). I suspect that Israel will buy it. Tzipi Livni will be the next prime-minister and she will have to buy votes for her “destroy Israel through concessions to sworn enemies” policy through even more bungs to the special interest parties.

On the plus side, because of Netanyahu’s last term as finance minister, Israel is now in the weird position of having possibly the soundest monetary/fiscal system in the western world and Kadima probably won’t screw that up too much (judging on form). True, it’s hardly beating off tough competition here, but you take what you can get.

* I say “Heh” because “I want to shoot myself in the head” is perhaps too much of a downer to be starting a post with.
**That’s not entirely untrue of course. The full might of the U.S. empire is for th next four years to be mobilised in the support of Social Democracy and against states like Israel that stubbornly insist on things like sovereignty and civilization.

“Obama is Blair” or Obama is Trudeau.

No he is not – his training was in a far more ruthless school.

Please wake up everyone.

So, the USA has finally got its version of the Tony Blair/New Labour revolution…

For Canadians on this thread not familiar with British politics, allow me to translate: “So, the USA has finally got its version of Pierre Trudeau…”

llamas, I enjoyed your comments and I think that if it turns out as you predict it will be a testament to the brilliance of the American founding fathers, and a much healthier outcome than the 15 or so years of Trudeaupia we got in Canada.

Easy way to tell which way it is going.

Watch “Mitt” Romney and his people (the people who are telling lies about Sarah Palin).

If Romney and his people prosper the Republican party will continue its decline – if they do not there is a good chance the Republican party will recover.

It really is a simple as that.

Romney is the ultimate establishment person.

Of course neither Mr Blair or Mr Brown were exMarxists – so the American position is very bad indeed.

By the way, good luck with the Israeli elections.

Seems to me Tony Blair was “New Labour”, i.e. – somewhat of a “centrist”.
Obama seems to be more “Old Labour”, i.e. – a commie.
Maybe Tony Benn.
I’m afraid you’re too optimistic.
(Though, not being British, I might be wrong about Blair).

A lot of New Labour (though not Blair) are ex-Marxists. They shed the collectivization of agriculture doo-dah, but kept the thuggishness, contempt for bourgeois liberty and hatred for any and all established traditions.

Now the thing to bear in mind is that when it comes to Obama is that Ex-Marxist is quite literally the best thing we can hope for.

Great alliteration there, tdh. Made me smile. Thanks.

llamas, you really are an optimist, aren’t you? I’m happy for you (and Perry), but I just don’t see it that way. It doesn’t matter that that ditz you cited still has a mortgage payment and an empty gas tank; she won’t think to blame The Messiah. Liberals are graded on their intentions, regardless of actual outcomes; conservatives are graded just the opposite. That’s not going to change in two years.

A complete tit-arse fuckeration to utter buggeration and shitteration.

This is a complete wankathon of a cunt-up.

The USA has fallen. Now I’m not saying McCain would have been grand but at least he wouldn’t be a complete toss-pot.

We now have a grand narrative and it sucks. It sucks Ron Jeremies pork sword (my wife met him once, in Florida). Everything will now be the fault of Bush (there is some truth in that) and every cock-up and disaster of the Obmanation will be laid at the door of the “forces of Conservatism” (where did I get that one from – Google it.

We are fucked up the back passage and round the outside loo. I can’t fuckin’ believe it. I mean Rev Wright and Bill Ayers and all that. Surely?

America, America, you voted for a man because he was black and you got a Marxist instead.

We have stood together so many times. I used to feel thoroughly at home in your country and you have now totally fucked the pooch. Oh, I know, we did it in ’97 but two wrongs and all that…

I/m reminded again that I liked Obama’s si-se-puede Spanish version for its amusing translation potential: yes it can. When combined with murderer Teddy Kennedy’s hasta-la-victoria sieg-heilness, it makes great sense.

I saw a piece of video (widely re-broadcast) that shows an Obama supporter crying that now she won’t have to worry about her mortgage, won’ty have to worry about putting gas in the car anymore – if she helps Him, He’ll help her.

I think The Daily Mash puts it best.