Can he fix it?…. Yes He Can!

Am I the only one who thinks that Barack Obama has been watching too much children’s TV?  Remember that lovable builder, Bob?  Well it seems that the president-elect has plagarised his catchphrase – “Yes we can”.  President Obama (Can he fix it?); President Obama (Yes He Can!)

Andrew Neill and the “This Week” team where in New York for their Thursday night broadcast.  If the whole world is buzzing after the election of Barack Obama then the United States must be electrifying!  From an open-air roof-top studio Andrew Neill, Michael Portillo and Diane Abbott pontificated and conjectured about how Obama’s victory would be played out accross the world and the UK.

At one point Andrew Neill turned to Michael Portillo and said that Obama had an “in-tray from Hell” waiting for him in the Oval Office.  I think he’s right and Obama knows it too well.

This is your victory.

And I know you didn’t do this just to win an election. And I know you didn’t do it for me.

You did it because you understand the enormity of the task that lies ahead. For even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime — two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century.

Even as we stand here tonight, we know there are brave Americans waking up in the deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan to risk their lives for us.

There are mothers and fathers who will lie awake after the children fall asleep and wonder how they’ll make the mortgage or pay their doctors’ bills or save enough for their child’s college education.

There’s new energy to harness, new jobs to be created, new schools to build, and threats to meet, alliances to repair.

The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term. But, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there.

I promise you, we as a people will get there.