Like many I'm sure, I was begin to tire of his abstract notions of 'hope' and flowery rhetoric but in last night's speech to the Democratic National Convention, Barack Obama finally nailed it. Obama focused his guns on McCain and the corporations and his policies at everyday working Americans for the first time in a speech that outlined a vision totally anathema to anything the 3 main British parties would dare to spell out. It's a sad thought that most of it was, to me, common sense but that it seemed so radical after 8 years of Bush, and even in a UK context with New Labour so willing to prop up the bankers that caused the current crisis rather than those who suffered at the hands of their reckless greed.The Democrats at last have started to tear lumps out of their Republican...