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Dear friends

I think it's now time to at least have a first balance sheet not the last the first balance sheet of the

Obama presidency.

As many of you know the images of the campaign are still vivid.

Big large mobilizations in the

United States of young people primarily.

Desperate for change.

And the slogan of that campaign change we can believe in.

Change Change

Change. But what has changed and what hasn't changed.

There has of course been a change in the presidency and we can't complain too much about that

Laughter

.

There is a new vice-president also in the

United States and we can't complain too much about that

Claps and Laughter

.

But the Defence

Secretary is the same.

That's the guy who sits in the pentagon and organizes wars and the reason he was kept on was to show that there is there are both elements of discontinuity at the top

AND very strong elements of continuity.

And the reason for that is that if you wear

Caesars clothes you must behave like

Caesar.