Joan Collins

Obama Notebook

As Obama-mania engulfs America, I feel that I’m living in the middle of a historical bubble.

issue 31 January 2009

As Obama-mania engulfs America, I feel that I’m living in the middle of a historical bubble.

As Obama-mania engulfs America, I feel that I’m living in the middle of a historical bubble. The palpable excitement that began two months ago, when Obama was elected president, has grown into a great thumping worldwide lovefest. I have never seen such immense pride in a new president. His every move and those of his wife and kids is chronicled, yet amazingly he hasn’t (yet) apparently put a foot wrong, even when snapped chomping on a chilli-dog in a diner. Obama is awe-inspiring. On his train trip from Chicago to Washington, he descended at many stops to speak confidently and eruditely, as he always does, and every speech was different.

At the inaugural celebrations we had a terrific front-row seat in front of our flat-screen TV, to which I was glued for several days.

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