I AM PROUD

I'd be surprised if anybody notices much difference.

So you are the British Everyman tasked with registering the Empire's fair share of gratutious knocks?

As for disparate outcomes, there is America and there is Great Britain.

First of all, the planet is not dying. This is an incredibly hyperbolic and human-centric notion.

Even if we accept the most dire and fanciful warnings, the worst that will happen is that the planet will no longer sustain certain manifestations of life (including humans). Not a pretty picture, but hardly the death of the Earth.

Secondly, if the planet is getting ready to shed itself of mammals, America alone cannot stop it and certainly Obama cannot.

I'm a big believer in American Exceptionalism, but even I don't think we, or our president, can keep the planet from dying.

Well Finn- if you are a big believer in American Exceptionalism it is time you dumped mixed-up banal cliches as your mode of expression.

I'm a believer in AE. America is pretty exceptional over a wide range.

Take your first and last sentences there as an example.

GREAT post, Set.

Thanks Boss, i truly appreciate that. I don't hear it very often, for which i am humble enough (nobody will believe that!) to take full credit.

I just discovered this thread. Thanks, Setanta. You were a lucky boy to have been raised by so righteous a man. What a model.
I just hope we overcome the prejudice that leads even Obama's followers to expect more of him that we would of ANY white leader, no matter how charismatic.

Just discovered it? You were the 2nd to last post, prior to this one.

Maybe it's an annual tradition.

It would be fun to re-discover things every year or so.

I wasn't aware it worked that way, but whaddya do?