America will soon seem like fond Hollywood memory

America will soon seem like fond Hollywood memory
IAN BELL January 23 2008

If memory serves, and generally speaking it does not, there was once one of those mad Beatlemania press conferences. In 1964, I think. Mr Lennon was asked how he had "found" America. John dodged the obvious joke, and did better.

"It's just like Britain, really," he said. "But with buttons."

For a child of the time, this was entirely true. They had the TV button. They had the glamour button. They had the hydrogen bomb button. They had the button that could devalue your pound, destroy a sovereign foreign policy and turn everything you ever knew into a suburb of a cowpoke town. A button.

Little George Bush has been pushing his buttons, like a rat at a feeding tube, for several weeks now. His republic's Federal Reserve has been pushing the interest rate button with a will. Yet nothing happens. Room service has been cancelled. For a Herodotus of the age, if any, this is interesting. Imperial America is in primal fear, and we must all quail.

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