I got quite tearful driving home last night listening to Barack Obama's speech. It really feels like he wants to change things: "Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off and begin again the work of remaking America. On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord."
How different to Gordon Brown, who'll spend as much taxpayer's money as he needs to try to make Britain the same debt-ridden, terrorist-fearing, possession-obsessed nation it was before the recession hit. At leats he doesn't have to fear assasination by lizards (I may have been reading too much David Icke again).
