Welcome to Super Obama World everyone!

While the world mentally says goodbye to war, famine and injustice while they wait for President Obama to start work, I’ve noticed that all that speculation during the Democratic campaign has proved sound. Obama IS a Mac, and so is Joe Biden too.

I wonder if Barack will be ringing up Al Gore for some Keynote tips?

Good luck America, don’t screw it up.

I think my favourite website is currently www.barackobamaisyournewbicycle.com which is a little oddity created by Matthew Honan who says of the web “I loved that I could pluck some odd thing out of my brain and someone, somewhere out there would relate to it. Might even love it.”

The page just serves up short phrases, some of which are really lovely and poke affectionate fun at the feelgood Obama factor. Have a look and refresh the page a few times, there are some great lines on there. The new bicycle trend has now spread, there was also a Hillary Clinton version (it’s down now) and yes, John McCain has one too, although it simply says JOHN McCAIN IS SUPER AWESOME! no matter how many times you refresh it. Hmm…

My guerrilla efforts at work to pin up a few of the Obama phrases around the studio also resulted in some McCain retaliation:

Let’s hope his aim isn’t so good these days…

Please forgive me while I write about politics. Don’t worry, I’ll get to design by the end of the post…

So today is Super Tuesday, Americans and UK news correspondents alike are getting more and more frantic about it all (just imagine the US media taking such an interest in our own quaint elections) and the spotlight is on the two Democratic candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. I don’t even know why I’m typing this, as I can imagine that anyone reading this post wouldn’t already know what they both had for breakfast this morning. Anyway, it’s a win win situation, Obama would be the first black president, Clinton would be the first female president. Both are several steps further along the evolutionary chain than George Bush…

The two are neck and neck, it’s too close to call. With almost identical policies, it’s a race being fought on personality, but perhaps the most striking difference between the two candidates is that according to the New York Times one is a Mac, and the other is a PC…

This comes from Obama’s visual style being seen as fresh and uncluttered, while Clinton shows a tendancy towards the generic way of doing things:

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