A New Planetary Policy?

We here at RCW will leave most of the US commentary to our friends over at the mothership, but one of Senator Joe Biden's remarks over the weekend just cries out for expert world commentary.

In listing the many fine things that Senator Obama would change as president, Biden veered into a geospatial issue I have not seen addressed yet by either campaign:

He will have such an incredible opportunity, incredible opportunity, not only to change the direction of America, but literally, literally to change the direction of the world.

I can assure you, dear readers, that even if Barack Obama is the most successful president in the history of the Republic, he will not alter the direction of the planet's stately progression around the sun, nor it's frenetic twirling once roughly every 24 hours. Unless, of course, he has managed to hide a childhood spent on Krypton with clever stories of growing up in Kansas, Hawaii, and Indonesia.