High Expectations

The Brits...with their typically dry take on President Obama's First Day. I like saying that. President Obama.

"...The new First Couple was driven in the armour-plated battle bus that masquerades as a Cadillac limousine, known as the Beast, to Washington's National Cathedral for morning prayers.

There was much about the service that smacked of new era. The sermon was read for the first time by a woman, Rev Sharon Watkins, and prayers were led by representatives of the Protestant, Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Jewish and Muslim faiths.

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It was when a gospel choir began singing that the unique nature of the Obama Age really became apparent. They sang a spirited version of He's Got the Whole World in His Hands. As they ran through the lyrics it was like hearing a psephologist taking stock of Obama's electoral appeal.

"He's got the young and the old, in his hands." True.
"He's got the rich and the poor, in his hands." True.
"He's got the whole wide world, in his hands." True, pretty much.

It was only when they sang the second verse - "He's got the sun and the moon, the wind and the rain, the earth and the sky, in his hands" - that one wondered whether expectations were running wild..."

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