Has he done anything wrong? Well, it's something everyone knew he was going to do, but he's bombing Pakistan and killing civilians in an attempt to rout al-Quaeda.

He's a US President, and I greatly respect him for many reasons and he could be a far worse, but he's far from perfect.

I was going to say that. And yes, it was to be expected, but it was still something of a bump-down-to-earth moment when I read about it.

Other than that, though, the last couple of weeks have been full of fist-in-air "yes!" moments coming thick and fast. (I keep getting a remixed version of the "America: Fuck Yeah" song from Team America World Police in my head. This one goes "Stem cells: fuck yeah! Science: fuck yeah! Windmills: fuck yeah! Closing Gitmo: fuck yeah!" Etc etc.)

I am totally going to have that song in my head now, in your version.

I didn't know about that. I shouldn't have asked! I was lying about the optimism being wearing!

...I can see a lot of reasons the Left, particularly the anti-war Left, would be displeased with him, including the retention of most of the Bush National Security team. Of course, this is one of the few moves of his that I applaud.

There's another question - what do you he's done right? (as opposed to wrong, not left!)

...that's just about it. The rest of the 'best' that he's done, is the delayed caving on the stimulus package (though I expect he will inevitably go further Left, with terrible consequences on that as well).

Oh, and re your post with the video: usually Lucy Mangan irritates me but yesterday she made me laugh. (Down at the bottom.)

Ha! Yes. Also the broadband. Though I would choose a different provider, not ever having used BT.

He smokes... stinkeeee

Does he? Yuck.