Today, as far as I’m concerned, is going to prove to be the second most important day in my lifetime, as regards world equality. The first was the collapse of the Berlin wall, and another was when we welcomed 10 Eastern European countries into the EU.

If this man Obama can deliver 10% of what he says this world will be a thousand times a better place to live.  I have a funny feeling that he will deliver a lot more than 10%, and not so much that he will deliver, but he will make all of us deliver, not by threat… but by hope. His policies and ideals are fantastic, but the most important thing that he has going for him and all of us humans is that he has a brilliant way of bringing everyone together and keeping them together
for the common good.

He is inheriting two serious wars and a nearly bankrupt economy. You could say that the only way is “up” for him, but I believe that the misguided gentleman they call Mr Bush singlehandedly f*cked up the whole world in 8 years, and I also believe that Obama will put this right in the next eight years, starting from today, even though he doesn’t take office until january.  He simply understands the need for belief in the human race above all else and will make the world understand that any other way, regardless of legislation, wars, bullying, just won’t work.  He will bring the best out in people and believes in fairness and equality, unless he’s a total bluffer, which I doubt.

I think that his biggest monumental challenge will come in January when he will have to find a way to thank Mr Bush for his time and effort as president without beating him around the head with a blackthorn stick collected from some ditch in the back and beyonds of Ireland, on the way home from a few pints of Guinness, in the dark of night, with the rain pissing down on him singing “A Nation Once Again” in three different keys!!!

It won’t be easy for the world economy, but today is the slow start from the bottom for sure upwards and onwards. And good luck to you, Obama.