...and then it's
(...as if you didn't already know that...)
Bush at a photo-op for the G20 summit, shaking hands with no-one, having no-one offering to shake his hand - looking for all the world like the mot unpopular kid in school (or, as CNN says, "the one with the cooties").
Almost makes you feel sorry for the guy...
NOT!
It's the karma, George - it'll get you every time - and I have a feeling yours is only just beginning.
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I think I'm all blogged out right now. I haven't written a post for over a week. Eek! Must be something to do with my marathon effort throughout October and early November.
I'll get back into it soon enough, I'm sure. I'll have to, there's so much to talk about - not least is the fact that I'm going to DC for Obama's inauguration!
Go me!
Well actually - that should be Go me and 4 million other people
Holy shit! That's the entire population of New Zealand! In the Mall!
Good job I like crowds! Oh wait - I don't.
Ahahahahahahahahaha
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President Barack Obama's election has meant so many things to so many people, and what I find most interesting is our individual reaction - how each of us feel on a personal level. Here are some of the stories that have moved me over the past few days.
This story made me cry:
The butler sees a new White House (Los Angeles Times, November 7):
President Truman called him Gene. President Ford liked to talk golf with him. He saw eight presidential administrations come and go, often working six days a week.
"I never missed a day of work," Allen said.
He was there while racial history was made: Brown vs. Board of Education, the Little Rock school crisis, the 1963 March on Washington, the cities burning, the civil rights bills, the assassinations.
When he started at the White House in 1952, he couldn't even use the public restrooms when he ventured back to his native Virginia. "We had never had anything," Allen, 89, recalled of black America at the time. "I was always hoping things would get better."
History will record this as the night the souls of black folk, living and dead, wept - and laughed, screamed and danced - releasing 400 years of pent up emotion.
They were the souls of those whose bodies littered the bottom of the Atlantic, whose families were torn asunder, whose names were erased.
They were those who knew the terror of being set upon by men with clubs, of being trapped in a torched house, of dangling at the end of a rough rope.
They were the souls of those who knew the humiliation of another person's spit trailing down their faces, of being treated like children well into their twilight years, of being derided and despised for the beauty God gave them.
They were also the tears of those for whom "Yes We Can", Obama's campaign slogan, took on a broader, more profound meaning.
I just love these. A collection of 26 30 newspaper cartoons marking the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States. Click on any cartoon to see a large version:
UPDATE 20/11/08:
I added a few more...
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Courtesy of Newseum (and a few other places), here are 97 of President Barack Obama's first newspaper front page headlines from around the world. Click on any image to see a larger version:
Argentina:
Australia:
Austria:
Belgium:
Brazil:
Canada:
China:
Colombia:
Czech Republic:
Denmark:
Ecuador:
France:
Germany:
Greece:
Hong Kong:
India:
Indonesia:
Ireland:
Israel:
Italy:
Jamaica:
Kenya:
Netherlands:
Panama:
Peru:
Poland:
Portugal:
South Africa:
South Korea:
Spain:
Sweden:
Syria:
Taiwan:
Turkey:
United Arab Emirates:
UK:
Uruguay:
Venezuela:
Seems like the world was a) paying close attention to the US Presidential election and b) is pretty pleased with the result.
It's all a bit different from four years ago, isn't it?
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