Just watch him!
Is it too late to jump on the Obama bandwagon? At this point it doesn't even seem close anymore.
If there is anything that can compare to this it would have to be Trudeaumania, which I am not really old enough to remember (I'm now old enough that I look rather fondly on anything I'm not old enough to remember) but which -- as I've later learned -- involved an attractive young politician who by dint of birth bridged the two solitudes of his country but also had a slightly mysterious and more radical past that he seemed willing to shelve away for the sake of winning power -- power that, as he campaigned for office, the candidate somewhat vaguely promised to exercise in a way that would be excitingly different than it had ever been exercised before by the old boring men who had occupied the office since time immemorial, and (in particular) in keeping with the youthful idealism of the upcoming generation. What this meant nobody knew, but it made no difference.
The only distinction is that Trudeau was running to be leader of Canada rather than leader of the free (for now) world, which is what Obama apparently aspires to be.
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Random thought: If it's Obama vs. McCain, this will be the first election in which neither candidate was born in the continental U.S.A. That must be an indication of something bad, but I'm not sure what.
4 comments:
Hasn't the "Leader of the Free World" idea jumped the shark?
Is the US President really the leader of the Free World? It seems to me, despite the US's obvious influence, they are having more and more trouble convincing the rest of the Free World to follow them.
According to Obama, he will fix things up right away and have the Free World following him like puppies. He will also have a chat with some of these so-called "hostile" leaders and figure out what's bothering them and fix that too.
Anonymous Dude,
Guess nobody told you but "jumped the shark" has jumped the shark. Get out of Tritesville and into 2008ton.
At the risk of infinite regress, I would like to point out that point out that the phrase "jumped the shark" has jumped the shark has itself jumped the shark. The regress can stop now, though, since the phrase is both useful and a tribute to bad boomer sitcoms, which may be the greatest cultural achievement of post-war North America.
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