How amazing is the world today

[lobelia321]

I'm amazed by the fact that Obama's grandmother lives in the Kenyan village of Kogello, and that Africa is celebrating an American president as a son of their continent.

I'm amazed that Obama spent four years of his childhood in the same suburb of Jakarta that I grew up in, and that he left the year we arrived (!!!).

I'm amazed that Iranians are confused because they have been used to seeing America as Satan; their government has defined itself in opposition to the American evil. What now?

I'm impressed by McCain's farewell speech. I'm glad he did not win but I thought he rose to the occasion with grat dignity and grace.

Some time I must stop gushing.

Comments

[pecos.livejournal.com]

Gush away...we're still walking on a cloud over here! See, no everyone in the USA is a raving manic. A few of us actually have brains. Shocking, I know. Who'da thunk it after the last 8 years?

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Well, you'd have thought I could have thunk it, what with half my flist at least being American or living there. But somehow, my brain divided the world into Americans and into People On My Flist. And Americans who were also People On My Flist were somehow Not Really Americans.

The tricks of the mind, eh?

[ahuilani.livejournal.com]

I wasn't like super against McCain but that Sarah Palin. I'd had to move out of this country if she ever had such a chance at being the president. Plus that whole 100 years in Iraq comment from McCain, no thank you.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

McCain basically voted for Obama by choosing Palin so, in retrospect, we'd have to congratulate him on his marvellous choice! I don't know the 100 years in Iraq comment. *shudders* (Although, who knows...??)