POWER mash up! NOT mash potatoes!

Barack Obama is revelling in presidential power and influence unseen in Washington for decades, became the first Italian fashion designer to sign up to Peta's campaign to drive fur out of Miuccia Prada, has always been way out ahead of the pack. I felt the presence of Madonna. The ability to push through ambitious plans, transcended personality, he will always stay personally popular, but for all the weirdness of her vision [she is] light years ahead of the rest. I cannot in my memory remember a time when a president of the United States has had more influence. Madonna is the Joseph Cornell of pop music. You recall her career as a series of lit boxes, face cards in a marked deck. She is a child of her class and city but more particularly and pertinently of her generation. And it is the tensions and contradictions between those different influences that make her work so pregnant and unpredictable, but with power comes the occasional stroke of luck.

I am the architect of my destiny. I am in charge. I bring that to me, or I push that away. In the fashion world, her persistent left-ish political inclination, her irony and her sheer brains make her exceptional.

Barack Obama:
'Obama Revelling in U.S. Power Unseen in Decades'- by Steve Holland
http://uk.reuters.com/article/motoringAutoNews/idUKTRE5406CF20090501

Miuccia Prada:
'The Devil in Miuccia Prada'- by Peter Popham
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4159/is_20070225/ai_n18634340/

Madonna:
'Madonnarama!'- by Rich Cohen
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/05/madonna200805