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Well for one Im hoping that Barack Obama wont fail, much social rebuilding is needed in the USA on many fronts, not least the Guatanamo Bay situation, the Healthcare situation and the tax corruption situation. Its so refreshing to see someone willing to tackle these injustices. Obama coming from a more social aspect deserves to be successful in the interests of a fairer society in the US. Its very much a society of have's and have not's. I would hope very few would wish to see him fail.
But yes Sid politics has gone that way and you can see it every wednesday on Prime Ministers Questions, when all David Cameron wants to do is to make Gordon Brown look bad, to make him look a failure, so that he in turn can slither into Downing St. Thats the only objective, there doesnt seem to be any urge or will to address the current crises. Its a sneery unpalatable encounter with no real positive productivity coming from it. Cameron to my mind has failed to capture the mood of the British Public who want a rally, they want a return to better times, and they want all parties to work for that. Not just to gloat over any kind of failure that the government might make. It is not possible for the government to get everything right in these difficult times, because to a huge extent we are pioneering where no man hath gone before.
But as for Osborne, well Im afraid poor George seems to have been airbrushed out of frontline politics. His head crops over the parapet still on occasion, but he is/was not proving effective grabbing media attention, and the labour old pros where sucking him in and spitting him out, so the Tories wheeled in the heavy hitting dinosaur Ken Clarke, an altogether more effective politician.
Although I see the poll you quote re Brown/Darling...I think overall though Labour are well behind in the polls. Are they dead in the water??