A new America
by balqanLast night the American people have elected Barack Obama, an African American as their next president. As the results were coming in, I could hardly believe my eyes, virtue has won over skin color and reason has defeated religious bigotry.
TV channels were streaming images of people celebrating on the street, cars were honking and a CBC reporter who was in the front of the White House, has reported that a mob was approaching, but than it turned out that it was a group of students who took their celebration to the gates of the White House.
For the first time since 9/11/2001, I felt sympathy for America. At that time it was a horrible event, where many innocent civilians had lost their life or became disabled. That sympathy had evaporated thanks to the Bush type of cowboy foreign policy and internal monetary policy. The financial crisis we are all fighting now, all over the World, has a lot to do with Washington being occupied for the past eight years by a bunch of greedy people, who put their interest first, before the American people and before global political end economical stability.
At the early days of the campaign, I went trough the websites of all the candidates, there were many Republicans and even more Democrats. At the time I told my wife that the website of a black guy, certain Obama seemed to be interesting and I felt sorry for him that probably, he will be among the first to lose the race to the White House, because of his race…
He never stop surprising me, he raised from obscurity to become one of the front runners in the Democratic Primary elections. Than I thought, well he won’t have a chance against Hillary Clinton, who is part of the Washington establishment, she is well known and she’s a woman. I was sure that the faith of Obama is sealed, but again I was wrong, the American Democrats preferred to trust the skinny black guy and give him the task to defeat the Republicans.
Personally, John McCain did a great job during this campaign. He had to fight with several handicaps, his age, George W Bush and all the mess he managed to create and finally Sarah Palin. When the Republicans have announced that their candidate for the position of vice presidency is the Alaska Governor, they hoped that they will be able to grab the feminist votes, since Hillary was out. they hoped that they will appeal to the right wing of the GOP, by nominating a radical Christian, pro life, pro war, hunting hockey mom, who happens to be a former beauty queen.
Soon after she was presented, it became clear that their calculation has missed the target, very few feminist would vote for a woman that follows ideals that are completely opposed to feminism. Her radicalism has backfired too, since it did not took a long time for everyone to see that her deep faith in Christianity can’t excuse her from being ignorant about geopolitics. I hope she goes back to govern Alaska and we won’t hear anymore from her…
Last night I went to bed thinking that I love America, I love the ideal they stand for and they proved us that these ideals are not just some nice words, but they are achievable. Yes! You can!
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