Sunshine, Unicorns and Rose bling

Well, Barack Obama is president as of 11pm US Eastern time last night. I watched the celebrations in Chicago on television and like most people who care about this historic step to change, I cried during his speech. Maybe, it was his eloquence and perhaps what he was saying that made me cry. But it also could have been that a half-white/half-black man just won 349 electoral votes beating out the negative campaigning by the grandpa and the idiotic beauty queen. America isn’t that stupid. Sorry.

In Jakarta, his former elementary school that he attended for 2 years as a child celebrated victoriously. In Kenya, friends and family of his father sang “We’re going to the white house.” In western Japan, there’s a city called Obama where they chanted his name and sang in praise of the president-elect. In Vatican City, Pope Benedict addressed the people with prayer and congratulations. The people he’s affected and those he still has yet to meet are looking forward to his first day on the job. As with most Americans, I can say proudly I voted for him.

But the most important thing, he’s excited us all and taken this country off that life-support. We’re taking our first breath as a rehabilitated country.

And I think that’s all I’ll say there. It’s boring to most but I live and breath politics. xD