If this blog were Gotham and I had any martial ability or physical grace I would be the new Batman in town. You could say I'm Bruce Wayne come to plow up the conventional and plant confused mixed metaphors. I am the kiwifruit from left field.
I thought I would start my mission of blog subversion (I think it really should be Marigold Blog Journalism...) with some international perspective on the American Presidential Race:
The world loves Obama? No, the world hates Bush and Obama looks and acts very differently. We don't know anything about him really other than he's young, not bad looking, actually articulate and says "change" a lot and everyone knows that change is just always awesome (like the current change from prosperity to depression). Sure we haven't looked at him deeply enough to realise his policies are only minor tweaks away from the status quo, but then neither have most Americans.
Of course with the media frenzy surrounding Obama we could be forgiven for forgetting that there is some white guy with matching hair from another party running as well. Yes Bob Barr deserves media attention too you know! It may come as a shock to many Americans that there can be more parties than just two but in other countries like mine there is a wide range of choice. American political history for more than a century has been a ball toss between two large corrupt political parties, each time with the voters expecting election promises to be fulfilled and being sorely disappointed. Repeating the same action again and again and expecting different results is one definition of insanity... why not try something else then?
