Priceless, from today’s Irish Times letters column (H/T Francis):
Madam, – The Obama effect is spreading. When you pay for your parking ticket in Dundrum shopping centre, an automated message comes up which reassuringly reads “Change is possible”. – Yours, etc,
AIDAN DOWLING, Ranelagh, Dublin 6.
A moment of some significance in journalism perhaps, as the New York Times reviews the current talked about book, The Wrong War: Grit, Strategy, and the Way Out of Afghanistan by Bing West. The author is no bleeding heart but a former assistant Defense Secretary from the Reagan era who stomped his way round the Afghan [...] read our review »
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“Change is possible”.
Not on the bus.
Not on the bus.
Don’t worry. They’re all being cut anyway, so soon you’ll be obliged to drive …
http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0120/buseireann.html
Or cycle, or walk, or stay at home (which will be easier for a lot of people cos they’ll be unemployed anyway!)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7841571.stm
just saw that letter in the Irish Times online. LMAO
Perhaps that’s where Obama’s campaign manager lifted his slogans from? “Yes, We Can” is the answer you get when you tell them they can’t clamp your car. Sí se puede, indeed.
We may need all the spare change we can get if the reaction of the stock market carrion to the possible threats to regulation of excessive greed, hinted at in Obama’s speech yesterday and as evidenced by the closing Dow-Jones average, is any guide.
Time perhaps to resurrect that great old hit of yesteryear:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nLZTdhY1GVE