Yesterday.....

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Category: Life

was an absolute bum of a day...

Yes boss, it started bad and got progressively worse until about 3pm, when the tide appeared to turn...

My problems were mostly about my juggling 19 small financial balls, 24 hours a day and inevitably seeing 4 or 5 falling in quick succession...

It was such a bad Monday, I almost understood Bob Geldofs song about Mondays being awful...


Today was however much better, even though several of the problems of the previous day continued walking alongside me like secret service men alongside 'The Beast'

Yes boss, I caught an hour or so of Inauguration Day and found myself with far more mixed feelings towards Obama than yesterday...


I first tuned into the hoopla this evening, at about the time the Senators started dropping like flies at the inauguration lunch (Trust one of the Kennedys to try and get in on the act and trump the main news of the day?!?!?)

I then watched on as the frozen parade made it's tracks and couldn't help but feel there was something utterly stark about it all..


Yes boss, it wasn't anything to do with a man who's middle name is Hussein being at the center of all things US...

Or even the mafiaesque nature of the parade, with guys hanging off of pick ups like a bunch of Taliban who've just swept into a newly taken town ...


It was the over-riding feel of a whole country being well and truly on the ropes..

From the wrapped up warm spectators, praying hope for economic and social miracles, to the pig ugly presidential limousine made by a company so steeped in imminent old skool paranoid tragedy, you could smell the gadgets popping...


It felt like Russia


Sure, there was whooping and cheering, and a shinny happy announcer, and panelist after panelist coming on to talk about the wonder and the beauty of the social revolution!!! - but from an astonishing televisual distance, the whole day seemed to be more deeply steeped in little more than paranoid desperation and cold future fear..


Yes boss, I realised as I watched, that the reason The US has turned to a Messiah like figure is because it needs one THAT BADLY!!

I realised that a country that seemed to be so on top things, so recently, now appears to be declining in love and money, so rapidly and hopelessly, it may be unrecognisable as a world power within our lifetimes...?!?!


And as the news anchors droned on like freezing and dull old fools about how Obama was going to still be a family man, and dine out in Washington, and pull the troops out of Iraq, and open new markets for US products, and practice bi-partisanship, and hold no grudges, and close Guantanamo Bay, and rescue the economy, and save the environment, and keep in touch with his roots, and restore Americas standing in the world, and sort out social ills, and fight crime, and SAVE AFRICA!!, and get a dog, and heal Washingtons racial divide, and spend time in Chicago, and give up smoking - I felt sorry for him...


Yes boss, Obama's come from nowhere, run into one of the biggest jobs on the planet, at a time of great need, and now has everyone wrapped around his little pinky...

But in the process of achieving all this, he's made the mistake of promising all things to all people (many of which are completely contradictory) - and now, amidst 2 wars and a depression, he has to perform the kind of miracles that Jesus himself would have had trouble with...


So today.

Great ambition, brave man and GOOD LUCK!!!

Is about all I have to say...

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