It's a New Dawn, It's a New Day....

David Letterman's Top Ten Bush Moments......

George W. Bush; he gave idiot sons everywhere hope. You don't need skill, you don't need to be suave or charismatic, you don't even need to be able to string a sentence together; as long as you have the right background, family money behind you, and your father has the right friends you too can be president. As for the Bush debaucle of a Presidency, well, in the words of Tom Paine; "what we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly".

No one is watching Bush shuffle off into history; yesterday the crowd around Washington chanted for one man, whilst the rest of the world took a sigh of relief. Barrack Obama has taken office and pledged to remake America.

Obama spoke of a mythologised past; one of blood and sweat, ingenuity and the triumph of ideals. A past of drive, courage and purposefulness. The unsavory side of America is swept away by his hope filled eulogy to hard work and dedication and we are reminded of what America has achieved; what the American dream stands for to all the little people who make the nation work. He reminded the citizens of the US the debt they owe their legacy and how far the old leaders have fallen from the founding principals. Our era of crisis has been remodelled as an era of vision and peace. Once again we are moved by words alone to believe that the grasp of man is as boundless as his reach if the nation possesses the courage to stretch out and seize oppertunity.

Now is the pause. Does the colossus have feet of clay or can there truly be a leader with convictions, ambition and the courage to take hard decisions and do what he 'knows' to be right, rather than to be guided by what he believes? It is easy to be cynical; it's even easier for Obama to fail; but maybe, just maybe we can bare witness to a man of whom be proud.