Inauguration Day!!

So, like many Americans, I spent January 20th celebrating... It was the first day of class that I did not attend, but it was completely justified, rightfully so... It's been pretty amazing how much fanfare Obama has had, as many of the cab drivers, bar tenders, and locals want to know Americans' impressions of our new president/world leader. So, a handful of fellow 'yankees' (the common term for anyone from the USA, which I'm sure our friends in the deep south would be more than insulted by, considering their roots) got together at a friend's apartment to watch, eat, drink, and celebrate the worst president in this country's history passing the baton to the most supported, most revered, and certainly, most monumental president in our history. All of which come from a decidedly biased opinion...

That said, we did what any Argentine would do in a normal, festivity driven occasion - we ordered a ton of empanadas, bought a few bottles of Fernet and Coke, and got working... I believe I've got a few pictures posted of the momentous occasion, including one of me, in front of the tv with a bottle of Fernet in one hand, and Barack, giving his address (to me) in the backround - how memorable is that!

Compared to the political disaster that is Argentina (this could be a daily or hourly series on the seduction of corruption, the strange-hold of power, and the pseudo party-dictatorship of the Peronist party), the US, and the world, is in for some interesting, challenging, and enlightening times now that that retard, W, is out of office... The global position has changed, and while I'm not here, writing from Argentina, suggesting that Obama has every answer to solve all of the world's problems (there are plenty, we're all aware), just his presence and his being are enough to put people's minds at ease, at least for the time being, with the knowledge that he will do what's right, and in the interest of the people, and not as W did, which was what was right for his dad's friends, and the people who put him in office (which, if memory serves was less than the number of people who wanted someone else in office in 2000)...

gObama!

And, as a side-note, Chicago 2016!!