On Jan 23, 8:10 pm, gruff <[email protected]> wrote:
> "... On Jan 23, 10:53 am, chazwin <[email protected]> wrote: ..."
>
> > Apparently the particular choice of the "invocator" was controversial,
> > him being some kind of born-again type. With 20,000 Christian sects
> > across the world, as well as other religions, any choice must alienate
> > the majority in some way.This make my point well that to have had a
> > non religious ceremony would have been preferable.
>
> Without doubt a non-religious ceremony would have been immensely
> preferable but Obama was reaching out to that mass of religious
> ideologues who supported Bush -- there were quite a few of them. I
> recall one of my favorite headlines in 2004 which came from a Kingdom
> newsrag -- The Daily Mirror -- on November 2, 2004: "How can
> 59,084,087 people be so stupid?"
>
> I'm hoping November 4, 2008, elicited a much better headline.
Approval of Obama in the UK is practically unanimous. No other
President (or PM for that matter) has ever had so much approval in the
UK except, perhaps post Peal Harbour F Roosevelt.
It is however a sad fact that no other world leader has ever had so
much hope invested in him. No human is equal to the expectations held
by ordinary Americans at such a difficult time.
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