"I suppose we in the UK have already experienced Mr Obama in the shape of Mr Blair, who was elected on a platform of "change" and professed to be a "liberal".

"For our votes we were handed War, an ever increasing differential between rich and poor, and an economy in meltdown (and don't tell me Blair and Brown didn't know what was happening to the ecomomy)" Ake

Sounds MUCH more like Bush, Ake, than Obama.