It is almost impossible to remember the euphoria last year when Barack Obama was inaugurated as the first person of colour to be inaugurated as President of the United States, but euphoric it was.
The media are a fickle bunch, last year he could do no wrong and this year well he can do right. The main thing that seems to have upset them is his health care proposals.
It's difficult for us on this side of the pond to appreciate why the topic is so toxic.
An important fact to bear in mind is that of the nigh on forty million people without insurance and ready access to healthcare an overwhelming majority are from the lower socio-economic classes and disproportionately of Black and Hispanic ethnicities.
However, in the words of the immortal Sam Cooke (whose birthday it is today) A Change Is Gonna Come.
There were times when I thought I couldn't last for long
But now I think I'm able to carry on
It's been a long, been a long time coming
But I know a change is gonna come, oh yes it will.
Gaining power is hard, but doing the right thing with that power is harder still.
What was that about campaigning in poetry, but governing in prose?
I think he's doing good.
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