There is good
Next time I’ll visit the US I will feel much more comfortable entering that country. Of course not everything will change for the better over night, but now the likelihood of it actually happening is far greater now than before. For all the friends, peers and colleagues I’ve in the US, I feel happy for you and share your joy about the result of the presidential election! Go Obama!
November 5th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Meh, I’ll wait and see. I don’t expect to see the death penalty abolished or the Patriot Act reverted…
November 5th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
I tend to get irritated by this kind of "and now everything will be different" idea. I mean, you know, this is still the country that narrowly elected Bush twice, right? And you know, despite what you can read in certain quarters, Bush got almost nothing done, domestically. Reality is that life inside America didn’t change much since 2000. Everything’s been depressingly normal. Regressive, sure, but nowhere near as much as popular opinion outside America holds.
Anyway this has been a great election in the sense that both candidates appear to be made of better stuff than the last guy, and the winner particularly so. I’m pretty glad about it.
November 5th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Hooray, we can become more socialist just like you! Too bad we won’t be able to go to Cuba for healthcare with the embargo and all.
November 6th, 2008 at 12:16 am
> Next time I’ll visit the US I will feel much more comfortable entering that country.
I felt like that too … for a few hours, then I learned about that :
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gf5HBYTJTXebd3kVnFkXW_SAaowwD9490U0O2
PS : When asking to generate a new capcha, it delete the whole message
November 6th, 2008 at 2:43 am
What makes you think anything will be different? He’s just another politician, who’s said very little about what he’s really going to do. There’s no reason to believe he won’t fuck up just as much as the next guy. (Or indeed the last guy.)
Since I don’t live in the US, frankly, I didn’t really care who won. America doesn’t have as much influence on the rest of the world as it likes to think, and I’m just glad the whole farcical circus is over, off our TV screens and out of our newspapers at last.
November 6th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Who Cares: "There’s no reason to believe he won’t fuck up just as much as the next guy. (Or indeed the last guy.)"
Well, that is just nonsense. If Bush had been a typical American president, you’d have no trouble listing many others with just as miserable a record. Try it yourself. Turns out he’s on a short list. And so it’s ridiculous to expect the same from Obama simply because he’s yet another American. Bush was not normal, and the election of *anyone* else likely represents a return to normalcy here.
Who Cares: "America doesn’t have as much influence on the rest of the world as it likes to think"
People have been saying that for a century or so, and yet every time it’s looked to be true, it turned out to be wrong. The sudden strength of the dollar is the most recent example. Who would have predicted an American credit crisis would lead to this, and how else can you explain it? The sad truth is it’s such a heavy weight that when it has problems it can export them to the rest of the world while largely avoiding the consequences. That’s a LOT of influence.
November 6th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
this has got to be the most moronic post i have ever read. stay in euro-moron land. we don’t want you here.
November 10th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
"Obama — when transliterated into Farsi, means ‘He is with us,’"
See http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/29/opinion/29friedman.html the Farsi translation is from para. 13 near the end of the New York Times article.
November 13th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
If it’s Obama, Bush, or McCain.. it doesn’t matter. There’s no real difference. I mean real difference. Ok, Obama is more the NWO guy (maybe that’s the reason why he won the election).
But anyone who had taken a look at obama not only via tv and the newspaper (also known as "propagandaheftchen"), and maybe read one or more speeches, couldn’t expect anything good about him. Or just take a look at the people around him..
If Obama really is good, than he’ll manage the world loving him after his period as well while being the same war criminal as bush.