[AmericanInTokyo]

Obama may be a jerk, but this (photo) says great things about America overseas (for a while at least--were he elected--before President Obama would begin to screw up on policy), oh well, it would last for awhile.

[maggief]

A photograph taken in 1987 of U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama and his grandmother Sarah Hussein Obama hangs in her home in the village of Nyagoma-Kogelo, western Kenya, Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2008. Barack Obama phoned Kenya's opposition leader as diplomatic attempts to end Kenya's political crisis intensified Tuesday. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)