My Odour of Body

Whoawhoawhoawhoa Obama is going to be the new president!!! Hooray for America! Ok so actually won the election like six days ago, and I am kind of slowing getting around to it, but yes, it is indeed quite exciting. For those who have been keeping up with the news since the primaries twenty-two months ago, Illinois Senator Barack Obama is definitely come a long way from being relatively unknown just several years ago to taking centre stage on the American political scene.

Obama's claim of bringing change to America got through to millions of Americans, it seems, and in the end he prevailed over his older competitor, Senator John McCain. This is a pretty momentous decision that the American people have made; this election saw several swing states (Colorado, Ohio, Virginia) turn blue for the first time in many years. I guess Obama's youth, charisma and eloquence was enough to woo undecided voters in the last few days. As well, I believe race played a big part in this election; Barack Obama is the first African American president to have taken office in the U.S., and with slavery but a hundred and a few years ago and the civil rights movement half a century ago, it is safe to say that few expected a black man to take office. For African Americans in America and everywhere else in the world, this is just one more step towards the equality that minority groups seek.

But I'm not going to delve too deeply into these touchy issues. WHAT! I'm not Anderson Cooper, gosh! By god Erica Hill is good looking...

WHAT? OK YEAH THE ELECTION:

This past election has been quite an exciting one; I believe (but don't quite me) that this election had 80% of the US' population out and voting, a record I think. As well, news stations like CNN had, reportedly, their highest ever number of viewers on election night too! To sum it up, this election had the most people tuned in and the most people voting... perhaps 2008-2009 will be the political season when people start caring about the fate of the world's most influential country, what with the credit crunch, oil crisis and worsening foreign relations that has defined the U.S of A. recently.

Lastly, just wanted to say that it was very gracious of McCain to concede like that after the expected loss. When all his supporters started booing, I got kinda pissed but I'm glad he tried to shut them up... otherwise people would hate him even more, hehe. Anyways I'm just glad the young'un got into office instead of McCain, although we won't know exactly how many of his promises he will be able to keep. Let's hope more than less, for the good of the U.S. and all the other countires inextricably tied to it.

kamster

p.s. November 11th; never forget.