Last night, this bear went to see Pete Postlethwaite in King Lear. It's a dark play, full of people looking out for themselves and killing anyone who gets in their way. They're all out for social status, money and land and will stop at nothing to get it all for themselves.
Entirely fitting, then, that it was transposed to Thatcher's Britain, where the Conservative ideals of "I'm ok, f@ck everyone else" ran rife through our society. Very nicely done, Congrats go to the director Rupert Goold.
And then to wake up to a landslide victory for young Barack. Oh happy, happy day. Whatever happens now, we can rejoice that today, the people of America have voted for his message of hope, change, peace, togetherness and friendliness. Obama's opening speech is well worth a listen. The overall theme is that human beings are absolutely brilliant so let's use that well and properly, be friendly and bring peace.
No matter what the right-wing d1ck-heads do now, the fact remains that the American people have announced that the Bush way, the Bush foreign and domestic policy are simply not acceptable any more.
We can only hope that the people surrounding Obama and the people in the rest of the world enable him to learn from that message too but even if they don't, the world can now be sure that American people are sick to death of the right-wing nonsense and are ready to be bloody friendly.
And that, I think you'll agree, is reason enough to celebrate...
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