My mate "T" said she was looking forward to her first day in her new job last week because "all you do is sit about chatting to folk drinking cups of tea at first" apparently! Not so Barack Obama but he certainly deserved a cup of tea at the very least after he ordered the closure of Guantanamo Bay, demonstrating exactly what he meant when he said at his inauguration that he would:
"reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals".