My president

The world was waiting.  The world was watching.  I and Diane snuggled up in front of an MSNBC stream on my laptop.  It was very convenient to watch it in our time zone.  Coverage started at 7 in the morning.

For a long while it seemed like a repeat of 2004, but once Ohio fell to Obama we knew nothing would be the same again.  And when California, Oregon and Washington were declared, we opened the champagne. Once Obama was on stage giving his speech in Chicago, we just cried and cried.  We cried together with Jesse Jackson and Operah Winfrey and millions of people watching all over the world.  Finally this eight year long nightmare is over — the wars, the torture, the corruption, the mismanagement, the arrogance, the hatred, the willful ignorance.  Finally the US has a president we can all look up to and be inspired by.  This is a president not just for America but for the world.  He is my president too!

Still, the world needs a better system for electing its leader.  Right now we are in the hands of American voters and half of the time that’s really scary. During the last 8 years, the world has been held hostage by a small minority of bigoted, gun-toting, rednecks.  Thankfully, after months and months of inanity and innuendo, even the Americans managed to pick the man the world already long ago had chosen.

Good luck to you Barack Hussein!  Lets make the world a better place!