To our American friends on the board who have been commenting about the political scene in the United States, I will say this: I had a bad feeling about the outcome of the election the other night. To my mind it signaled the end of Obama's effective tenure as president. You all wanted change? Did the man not clearly say that if elected, health care reform would be one of his priorities? Equating the Republicans as the party of change after they used their big pharma and insurance companies buddies to trip up Obama right out of the starting gate to ensure things stayed exactly the way they are is to my mind an act of shear barbarism.