The Overgraduate is a critic of both Blair and Obama. There is a whiff of piety about both which is off-putting. But today I find myself in agreement with both. In this I seem perhaps out of step with the general populace so that much at least is reassuring.
The Divine Blairness first. Today it has been announced that all royalties from his memoirs, not to mention the £4.6m advance, will be donated to the British Legion. Good for him and shame on the moaners who have been so swift to bleat to the media about how this is nothing more than 'blood money.' No doubt they would have had something else to say if he had quietly pocketed the money. Dodgy war, nice gesture.
Obama next. Yesterday he spoke out in favour of the right of American muslims to build a mosque on ground they own at ground zero, the site of the fallen twin towers. What he actually said was that it is no business of the federal government to intervene in such plans provided no planning or local laws are contravened. Spot on. As a test of the rightness of his comments we need only apply the Sarah Palin test - because if she agrees with you then you are probably wrong. On this occasion she has condemned her president so for once he deserves my support.
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