Anthony Barnett (London, OK): As Gerry Hassan points out in his recent post on the new Labour leader in the Scottish parliament, trading life stories is becoming mandatory, It's becoming a farce in the US, as a witty mail now circulating in cyberspace neatly and Obamaly illuminates. It has just been posted over in our sister blog, openUSA. Here's how it opens,
I'm a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight.....
* If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're "exotic, different."
* Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, a quintessential American story.
