herring my fishy friend, don't get taken in. Obama will have to pay the piper, the optimism will fade with time, and making speeches will be pointless as the rapture approaches. better get down the bloody pub with me and Gene 'with beer all things are possible' for one last bevvie before China takes over. I did not like the articel myself, it was lacking in insight about why fundamentalists do what they do and this is what America needs to get its head around...toodle pip