Garrison Keillor: America is cool!

A neat article in Salon, by Garrison Keillor - America is cool:

"The world expects us to elect pompous yahoos and instead we have us a 47-year-old prince from the prairie who cheerfully ran the race, and when his opponents threw sand at him, he just smiled back.

He'll be the first president in history to look really good making a jump shot. He loves his classy wife and his sweet little daughters. He looks good in the kitchen. He can cook Indian or Chinese but for his girls he will do mac and cheese. At the same time, he knows pop music, American lit and constitutional law. I just can't imagine anybody cooler.

Look at a photo of the latest pooh-bah conference -- the hausfrau Merkel, the big glum Scotsman, that goofball Berlusconi, Putin with his B-movie bad- boy scowl, and Sarkozy, who looks like a district manager for Avis -- you put Barack in that bunch and he will shine." (from Salon, America is cool)

Yeah, Putin, what's with that B-movie bad-boy scowl?