England for Obama

…as I don’t think my experience as an arthouse cinema manager would have cut the mustard. 60,000 people have applied to be volunteers at Obama’s inauguration.

So how many of these do you want me to bring back with me?

(Coming next: limited edition 2012 London Olympics Oyster cards.)

Including the Chicago Tribune - which in doing so, is endorsing a Democratic candidate for the first time in its 161-year history.

This from AP:

“Excerpts from recent newspaper endorsements of the presidential candidates. The Los Angeles Times endorses Democrat Barack Obama, calling him “educated and eloquent, sober and exciting, steady and mature.” The Washington Post calls Obama “the right man for a perilous moment.” The Chicago Tribune, endorsing a Democratic presidential nominee for the first time, expresses “tremendous confidence” in Obama’s “intellectual rigor, his moral compass and his ability to make sound, thoughtful, careful decisions.”