Saturday, November 08, 2008
obama
Of course I was thrilled that Barack Obama won the US election, and I had a good day that day because of it (good joke on the News Quiz today: 'No-one believed that Americans could put aside their prejudices and vote for a president with a brain'). I always feel a little irked about being partisan in another country's election, isn't that odd, even when it's the US. I was appropriately corrected by a colleague for my simplistic recital of stupid redneck stories off yahoo news etc - as he pointed out, the way the worst of the US is presented in our news is just like the way that news stories from Aust are all about killer crox and dirty back roads.
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