I hereby take back anything negative I may have said or thought about Barrack Obama
He is proving to be a true leader.
But apart from any mea culpa I might be expressing, as a Canadian I have what some might consider to be a rather mundane sense of collateral satisfaction about this whole business. It's not unlike the warm feelings that flowed through me as Conrad Black was trundled off to his Florida Retreat.
We are now finally, I hope – rid of David frum once and for all.
No more will we be subjected to the rhetorical nonsense that sweet david wrote for the Boy Prince.
No more "Axis of Evil" Tripe.
No more angry nonsense about "them" and "us".
In his first few days in office, Barrack Obama, the first African American President of the United States is behaving in a civilised way. Obama has – in a few short hours – transformed the United States from a nation of narrow-minded selfish neocons, to a world class nation, which believes that the future of our world depends on mutual respect and "mutual self-interest".
OUT is the belligerence…the mailed fist…the mantra of – "You are with us or you are against us".
IN is the language of understanding, rationality and compromise.
Lets just hope and pray that he has the inner steel to stick to his values.
Lets hope that he will continue to refuse to bow to the reactionary forces of the men and women who sucked up to and profited from the administration of his predecessor.
And Lets pray for him in whatever ways we can.
I think it's safe to say that the hopes of humankind are in Obama's corner.
As for David – may he be consigned to the dustbin of history where he belongs.
And may his Mother Barbara rest more easily in her heaven.
