Comet Obama crashes into the crater between rhetoric and reality

WHO will ever forget January 20, 2009? In America and around the world, it was truly a great day. It shouldn’t have mattered but for someone of colour to assume leadership of what we used to call the “free world” counted for quite a lot.

Even though his family weren’t picking cotton, for many Americans Barack Obama’s election was atonement for the sin of slavery.

A good half of Americans, and many more internationally, were doubly delighted to see the back of George Bush.