Gah! Why oh why do the Americans have elections in the middle of the night? Can't they just organise them during the day like us civilised Europeans!? Now I'll have to go to bed later without knowing the result.

Oh well. I think I'll get up half an hour earlier tomorrow morning to catch up on the results over breakfast.


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Also; voter intimidation in Philadelphia by a Black Panther guy with a nightstick. Good grief.
That is simply outrageous. What on earth is he thinking!?

Let's look on it from the upside. Whatever the outcome, this election has shown that it is possible for a Black man of ambition and intellect to become anything, including president.

Some Blacks may think that Obama is finally going to solve their rent problems. Or, as in the case of this man, at last make him king of the hood. On the contrary. I think our nightstick wielding brownshirt will soon discover that Obama just blew away his excuses.
Obama is not his saviour. Obama is a scathing indictimtment to him. Obama is the floodlight that lightens up that big 'I am an imbecile' sign on this punk's forehead. Some Black men make it to president. Others can't find it in themselves to get a job or go to college and would rather waste their lives intimimidating others on the streets. Fine. Obama shows, that this is a matter of personal choice and merit, not a matter of circumstance.

I think we may see a paradigm shift in race rethoric in America after today. And indeed elsewehere. Even after seemingly having gotten used to it over the last year, (If elected) a Black man as the most powerful man on the planet is an earthquake. It will send shockwaves through how we conceive of society, of America, and of race relations. Whether as a positively as a rolemodel, or negatively as an indictment, the discourse of excuses will change to one of less tolerance of excuses.