"He's marvellous! Enormous! That fellow could reform us!"

[pyat]

"Now that's what I call... sex appeal!"

No political comment here. Clip from George M. Cohan's first and only movie, and Jimmy Durante's first film. It's about a charismatic medicine show man who runs for president. I just think the tunes are catchy, and the presidential hoopla put me in mind of it, and also in mind of that Busby Berkley movie with the dance number that ends with a salute to FDR.

This is a day of rare widespread public optimism. Revel in it, I say. Sure, optimism doesn't always pan out. But that's not the reason for being optimistic in the first place.

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[paka.livejournal.com]

HELL yeah. I was hard at work during the inauguration proper and finally got to read the guy's speech. Dynamite on the screen. I'm sure that spoken by an orator of Obama's calibre, it was downright amazing.

I'm very happy with our shiny new President so far. We'll see how he pans out... but at least we finally have someone who can speak English, in public, and sound both smart and actually open-minded.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Just so! I wish any of our likely candidates for PM was 1/2 as charismatic.

Ah well. We're all waiting for Justin Trudeau to come and take over where his dad left off.