"OK. Quién echó el pedo?

Clearly in this picture we can see exactly who farted and who is not so happy about it. President Obama seems to think of everything.

Barack Obama is in Port of Spain, Trinidad and so is Hugo Chavez and so is Raul Castro. This alone is amazing. Obama seems on top of the world. He should. He is a rock star in the rest of the world. If ever there was a man born for a particular job, it appears to be this man and this job.

Port of Spain does not look like the newsreels. When Plot and Duck spent their day in Port of Spain last month, they went to the world's dinkiest National Art Museum. Inside was a woman reading a newspaper and on the cover of that newspaper was Obama's face, announcing he would be coming to Trinidad for this conference. It was front page news for the whole month, and Obama likenesses took up entire T-shirt stands all over the southern Caribbean. "He's a good man," the lady said. "He sounds like he really cares about people."



So far the thing Plotnik likes the best about Obama is just that -- and how he seems to actually think before he speaks, as if there is a well filled with refreshing water in there, from which he can draw intelligent statements. Even if he is saying little beyond his talking points, he makes you think he means it, and that he has thought about it before he answered.

Of course the man is probably making mistakes, but he's making decisions. And in that regard, you have to say that Bush did the same thing. Dubya was obsessed with 9 1 1, and that wasn't a bad thing. He did what he did to protect his country.

But he was so limited -- in life experience and in depth. In the end, Bush was a simple, ordinary, nice guy, who had been given everything in life, and fucked it all up. Now he was handed a position that called for greatness, and it was like asking Plotnik to guard Kobe Bryant.

But we're still here. Bush helped. He probably did the best he could, but now we have a man whose best will be far better than anything GWB could have hoped for. I hope. You hope. We all hope.