Andy, it's good to hear someone from the UK say they think the US political system is better. Obama was elected on the mantra of change, and that is exactly what he's doing, only people didn't realize what exactly the change would be if they didn't look at his record and who his associates were. It appears Obama's ultimate goal is reinvent the US to look more like Europe, a Social Democracy. We have often accused him of being a Socialist and he denies that. Well, it's semantics, he wants to take what he believes is the best of both worlds between Democracy and Socialism, like much of Europe did in the last century. Right now so many of us more concerned about how all this is affecting us personally, so we drink his koolaid hoping it will restore our 401k's and thus give us security. We will pay the devil to do that.