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Topic: Obama President of U.S.A.
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But then they started playing a game called Baseball in which after hitting the ball they throw the bat down. By Gad, Sir, an Englishman would sooner lay down the life of his faithful punkawallah than put down his bat.
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When I was working we had an engineer from England visit out plant and thinking cricket looked like it might be interesting I asked him to explain it to me. Half an hour later I decided that like chess, it is much too complicated a game to try and learn if you are over 8 years old.
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SANDS: Power moves in politics and on the chessboard
..Power moves in politics and on the chessboard
07.11.2012 – It wasn't the cliff-hanger people had predicted: minutes before midnight (Pacific Time) Mitt Romney conceded and Barack Obama had won the 2012 US Presidential election, taking eight of the nine battleground states and 50.3% of the popular vote. Do you know how many of the past presidents, Republican and Democrats, were chess players?
President Obama, according to his autobiography, is a chess player, like eight of the last nine Democrats to occupy the Oval Office. (Lyndon Johnson was the exception.) GOP challenger Mitt Romney, to judge from the public record, doesn’t play the Royal Game, a trait he shares with the last four Republican presidents — Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and the two George Bushes.
In fact, according to a 2011 survey by the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs, dating back to the Chester Arthur administration in the early 1880s, 89 percent of Democratic presidents have been chess players (8 of 9), compared to just 35 percent of Republicans (5 of 14)
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I say steady on Corvidae old chap.The English invented baseball,of course it's called rounders in our country and it's a game only girls play(not masculine enough for us chaps). 
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"I dont know if our president has much of an impact on Iceland but who is president is very important in the US"
It's not far from true, I suppose, that the US president has a greater impact on Iceland than on the US. This is not said with great pleasure.
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