He’s off and running …
Thanks to the Internet, I’ve just watched live the declaration of Barack Obama of his candidacy for President of the United States. You can see his eloquent and inspirational speech here.
The senator of just two years declared: “I recognise that there is a certain presumptuousness in this, a certain audacity to this announcement. I know that I have not spent a long time learning the ways of Washington, but I have been there long enough to know that the ways of Washington have to change.”