No.53

President Obama

Posted by Alan W Collins on Nov 6th, 2008 and filed under America, Barack Obama, David Cameron, John McCain, Opinion. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry

So Barack Obama has been elected President of the United States and will take office on January 20, 2009.

It is a fantastic result, not only for a fantastic and charismatic leader, but also for America, who has finally put the past behind her and moved on, and for democracy, with an unprecedented participation and interest Britain could only dream of.

I took a short “bloggers’ break” to concentrate on other things (mostly Uni work, and then plenty of overtime at the Co-operative) but I never stopped following the incredible journey and am delighted that Obama has won.

David Cameron yesterday morning released the following video giving his thoughts on an historic victory:

One must not forget, though, that John McCain is a true American hero who has done nothing but serve his country – both at war and then in Congress – all his life and his loss must be commiserated after a gallant fight to the end.

If you liked this post, please donate. A portion of your donation will go to charity.

Related posts

  1. Obama/Biden vs. McCain/Who?
  2. Barack Obama for President
  3. More subjectivity from The Guardian
  4. Now I know who I will be supporting for the Presidential candidacy
  5. It is now McCain versus Huckabee, or McCain/Huckabee?

2 Responses for “President Obama”

  1. Rob says:

    Yeah, fair play to him. Obama won by quite some distance as well, which is always good. Nice to see you’re back from your break – I was wondering why there was nothing on the election on the site!!

  2. John Ward says:

    I am just so strongly reminded of Britain immediately post-election, when Blair had been thought of in a similar vein and was of course not yet exposed for what he and his party were really all about.

    One day the Americans will learn the lesson that we here have done — but not today.

Leave a Reply



Advertisement

Photo Gallery

Log in / Advanced NewsPaper by Gabfire Themes