Summary: In his latest review of Australian politics and the world at large, Bob Ellis evokes Obama, Rudd, Beazley, McCain, Turnbull, Costello, Palin, Wran, Rees, Ramos-Horta, Cate Blanchett, Benazir Bhutto, Hilary Clinton, Heath Ledger, Rupert Murdoch, John Howard, Tony Blair, Bob Carr and Steven J. Spears in words that may fix forever in the mind