People here are going a little nuts over Obama as well people in your country. He's special. He first met with our GG (Queen's personal representative in Canada - you may see pictures of her today), who is a woman of colour with Haitian origins, she's as much a first for us as Obama is for the states. The only person I was as close to as you were to Tricky Dick was our former Prime Minister Diefenbaker (staunch conservative PM during Kennedy's time) at the Chateau Laurier one day when I was about 12. He was in a phalanx of mounties. I wanted his autograph for my grandfather, but that guy was about as approachable as a pit viper. Google his picture if you dare!

Anyway, it's all-Obama all day here... my girlfriend has been handling calls from the media all over North America including some US "journalists" actually asking her to arrange an interview with him! She handles media relations for the Ottawa Police, so where they got the idea she could do that... I was talking to another friend the other day who's on the undercover RCMP anti-terrorist squad and he says this is the tightest security he's ever been a part of... we're taking care of him!

MacXoftheMounted.....................formerly known as Professor Von X