Obama, bad and good

YOUR election of President Barack Obama, currently visiting SA, as the first US president of African ancestry aroused immeasurable passions. Because your forebears were dehumanised, hunted, captured, brutalised and “civilized” throughout history, we hoped your leadership would usher in a period of decency, respect for human life, justice and peace. Instead, your presidency has been a geyser of gunk, incessant deceit and vacuity. Not only have you inherited the boorish and fantastical logic of imperial grandiosity, but you have embellished it to frightening heights. Your administration has overseen a