No matter how the vote ended up in the US yesterday, history would have been made. A victory for one ticket would have given the United States its oldest first-term president (McCain, who is 72) and first female vice president (Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin). The other would see the first African-American (Obama) moving into the White House and the first Roman Catholic (Senator Joseph Biden) to win the vice presidency. I didn't know that old rich white men and Roman Catholics really felt like minorities that were underrepresented in power but I guess it has never been done before. It is the female and the African-American that are much more impressive, even if Palin is batshit crazy, and she is. Hilary was much more of a woman to be proud of. I would like to add that Canada has had a female leader, Kim Campbell. I know that she wasn't put in power from a nation wide election and that she was only Prime Minister for 5 or so months, but still!! It seems as though The States have voted for Barack Obama, which is awesome, but I won't believe it until I see him sworn in. I totally don't understand their political system down there and it always seems like things get switched around at the last minute.
Wednesday 5 November 2008
History Is Made
No matter how the vote ended up in the US yesterday, history would have been made. A victory for one ticket would have given the United States its oldest first-term president (McCain, who is 72) and first female vice president (Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin). The other would see the first African-American (Obama) moving into the White House and the first Roman Catholic (Senator Joseph Biden) to win the vice presidency. I didn't know that old rich white men and Roman Catholics really felt like minorities that were underrepresented in power but I guess it has never been done before. It is the female and the African-American that are much more impressive, even if Palin is batshit crazy, and she is. Hilary was much more of a woman to be proud of. I would like to add that Canada has had a female leader, Kim Campbell. I know that she wasn't put in power from a nation wide election and that she was only Prime Minister for 5 or so months, but still!! It seems as though The States have voted for Barack Obama, which is awesome, but I won't believe it until I see him sworn in. I totally don't understand their political system down there and it always seems like things get switched around at the last minute.
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I wonder if the Americans feel the same as me - "anyone is better than Bush"
Mum
Yay Barack!! Its such a relief to finally be rid of Bush and to be there for such a big moment in history.
Teri
Obama will help the way the world views America immensely. And like your mom said, anyone is better than Bush (how he got elected TWICE is beyond me).
The electoral college still has to meet and votes in January. You can be rest assured that the conservative blogosphere will pull out all the stops: Fransiskus school registration, sealed documents, "solid links" to Raila Odinga or any of the "extremists" that has been named. My guess is they will try to argue (quite falsely) that he was not born in Hawaii or failing that, going to school in Indonesia invalidate his U.S. Citizenship apparently. Nonetheless, you will hear the name Phillip Berg whispering about. Hooray for political sour grapes.
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