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Spotted on an overcrowded Bay Bridge this Memorial weekend: a car (driven by a black man, though I think that's probably irrelevant) with Obama stickers one side and Clinton the other.

Is this the start of a trend? Never seen it before anywhere. As bumper stickers go, so goes the nation. The Democrats only really began to get serious again after the 2000 and 2004 defeats when those whining (if understandable) "Re-defeat Bush" stickers got peeled off and replaced.

Meanwhile I want to write a travel piece about Rehobeth Beach, Delaware for a British audience - anything but a well-heeled, gated, protected corner of the nation (Americans who know it will smile at the thought) but possessed of so much of that peacefulness that the British equivalent would lack. Two reasons - no booze, at least very little in public. Even on Memorial Day with the town full of students. And second, less tangible, but true I think - that American respect for authority that still exists across most of the land. The lifeguards tell people, for instance, to stop flying kites near the crowds on the beach. They comply instantly. Would they in the UK? Would there be lifeguards?

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