How important to the rest of the world is this US Presidential election?
As I read this NZ Herald story online, the TV is on downstairs and we here in Australia have blanket live coverage of the US Presidential election results on four of the five free to air channels.
Tracey Barnett : Obama's dream will seal the deal - 05 Nov 2008 - NZ Herald: Opinion
Well Tracey, I think that's how many of us outside the US are feeling too, and ... it's sounding like a landslide, with unprecedented turnouts at the polls, and punishment of the incumbent Republican administration; Republican state governors are losing en masse, the US House of Reps and Senate are both already shaping up as overwhelmingly Democrat dominated houses.
And therein lies the rub. So much hope, so much promise. Now they're going to have no-one to shift blame to.
Hit the ground running people, and fasten your seat belts folks - it's going to be an exciting ride!
As I read this NZ Herald story online, the TV is on downstairs and we here in Australia have blanket live coverage of the US Presidential election results on four of the five free to air channels.
Tracey Barnett : Obama's dream will seal the deal - 05 Nov 2008 - NZ Herald: Opinion
I have been waiting for eight long, dark years to be able to write a column that can talk about what's right with America instead of what's wrong with America.
I need to wake up tomorrow morning and hear that the United States has chosen to create a better history.
Under the disastrous administration of George W. Bush, America has become a nation I can hardly recognise. ...
The truth is, I am afraid. I am afraid to put so much hope in just one man. Since the day Barack Obama won the primary in Iowa, my secret threefold prayer has been: let him get the nomination, don't let him get shot and don't let him become Jimmy Carter once he's in office.
If an Obama presidency is smothered by the mess he will inherit (and the presidency could well be for whomever takes office next) at least he will have given us something America desperately craves today - the possibility of renewal. I believe they call that hope.
Well Tracey, I think that's how many of us outside the US are feeling too, and ... it's sounding like a landslide, with unprecedented turnouts at the polls, and punishment of the incumbent Republican administration; Republican state governors are losing en masse, the US House of Reps and Senate are both already shaping up as overwhelmingly Democrat dominated houses.
And therein lies the rub. So much hope, so much promise. Now they're going to have no-one to shift blame to.
Hit the ground running people, and fasten your seat belts folks - it's going to be an exciting ride!
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