Well he made it. Obama not only got voted in but survived his inauguration day (I was sure some lunatic fringe was going to have a pot-shot at him...). It seems Americans have finally had enough of the BS. All we need now is Cheney & Bush to be held accountable for their War Crimes, which will be difficult seeing as Cheney was given free reign to shred whatever he wanted before he left his office. Quite convenient really, especially as it's all meant to be kept as part of the "presidential record". Not that these guys have any problem just breaking the law when it suits them (eg rigged election, Geneva Convention... see the rest of this site for more examples). My wife's due to give birth to our firsy child in a couple of months, and I can't wait for him or her to look back in 20 years and ask "Dad, what were they thinking leaving those megalomaniac capitalist sociopaths in power?"

At least Obama's going to shut Guantanamo and get everyone out of Iraq eventually. And of course isn't it convenient that the GEC (Global Economic Crisis) has coincided with Bush leaving office? Is that simply a coincidence, or was it a political plan by Bush et al to leave Obama with a steaming plate of economic dog turd to start off his presidency? We'll never know, but thankfully my mortgage interest rate is tumbling and while I'm sure they won't be perfect, between Obama and Kevin Rudd there's at least a sense of hope that the world will be ruled with some semblance of sanity, for a couple of years at least.