Obama has done it! It is a great time for America!!!

As you all know, as the world knows, Barak Obama has won the US presidential election.  He has won by a landslide 69% t0 23% with Ralph Nader and other independent candidates taking minor percentages of the vote.  As you all are reading or have read, this is historic.  Voter turn-out was very high, I think the highest since 1908, the next president will be black, with a muslim and African immigrant background.  Obama really represents America.  He is intelligent and willing to learn what he needs to know to do the job.  I have found many Americans like this. I think America can be proud of itself again. I think America can now re-position itself in the world. One of my colleagues said that it was a great day for democracy.  Ok – but the same democracy elected George Bush twice, with a close enough margine either way that it was possible to create questions about cheating or rigging the vote.  You can’t rig the vote when the margin is 69% to 24%!  Many people who never voted before came out to support Obama – something that the polls up to the election largely ignored.  It was surprising to watch Obama pull away from the debates with Hillary Clinton and actually begin to create some policy platforms for domestic and foreign policy that he could (very effectively) communicate to the electorate.  IT WAS A VICTORY FOR IT NETWORKING!!!  In the end there were a few dissapointed people here in the office, but actually not many voted for McCain after seeing a couple of months of Sara Palin.  There are a lot of us that watch Saturday Night Live, and nobody wanted to see her do that.  There was a lack of seriousness about their campaign that pulled people away in the last months. That’s not my observation, that’s talk around the coffee machine at work.

My mum (Canadian) now says that Canadians will wear American flags on their clothing and backpacks when they travel abroad so as not to be confused with people from the country of Stephen Harper (Canadian Prime Minister).  Heh heh.  I think the message that Obama represents will help other countries in the world adjust their own political “levels” of quality.  Not everywhere, of course, but in some countries.  Maybe Italy too!  I heard about a month ago that Al Queda would have supported McCain because they need the enemy to boost recruiting. It is hard to fight against this president.  The middle east may have better days ahead of it.

Let’s hope that Obama is up to the task – he sure seems willing to try!

Good luck!

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