The Necessary Man

I promised myself I wouldn’t do this. I promised myself this blog would be all about writing. But I’ve got to get one political opinion off my chest and say that I think Barack Obama is what is called “The Necessary Man”: the man who turns up when needed, at just the right time. He is akin to J.F.K. and Pierre Trudeau. There is the style, the élan, the class that catches a nation’s imagination – hell it catches the world’s imagination. The world likes Barack Obama, and if America is to reassert herself as world leader and moral compass then she needs this Necessary Man.