Saturday, November 03, 2012

Obama v Romney.

Obama is a very good orator but his genial manner and sense of determination covered up his fundamental lack of depth in the speech which  I saw live yesterday.
Romney is adequate and loses no marks for presentation but his political points exposing the failings of the Obama regime hit home hard in the live piece I saw on a news programme yesterday.
I still expect Obama to hold on by the skin of his teeth but visions of New York being nowhere near back to normal after a couple of days may just work against him - however unfair that would be.

Prayers of Jane Austen.

The little-known prayers written by Jane Austen. Jane Austen (1775-1817) on engraving from  1873.  (Photo: Getty/iStock) It is now 250 years...