Is Senator Barack Obama, voted in as President with a very substantial majority.
I think that anyone who is expecting a gentle pussycat is in for a shock; I thought that Mr Obama's victory speech demonstrated a degree of tough determination that of course, a US President should possess. I believe that he will be good for America and notwithstanding his obvious steely qualities, good for the world too.
Credit is due to Senator McCain for his dignified acceptance of defeat; I feel he is a decent man, hamstrung by his inept choice of a vice-presidential candidate (despite his generous and gentlemanly comments after his defeat) and further hamstrung by the eight years preceding his presidential campaign.
I have one gripe: what is all this rubbish about Senator Obama being "America's first black president"? The president-elect is as much white as he is black.
Perhaps that's a good thing?
Until the next time
