America has voted, and out of the only 2 that ever had a chance they chose the right one. Thankfully.
A large portion of non-whites and younger voters took to the booths for the first time, which no doubt made a difference in the result. But more importantly, how would the people that truly mean something to us have voted given the chance?
Without getting too deep into this, I’m pretty much of the mindset that everyone is equal and deserves an equal chance at everything in life, but then I go and read something like this and it makes me think that some people shouldn’t be allowed to vote. Seriously, how dumb must someone like this be:
This Texan woman who didn’t want to give Newsbeat her name is one of them.
She said: “I really don’t care what Obama says because I don’t want someone with a Muslim background running our country.
“He’ll be letting them all come over here and he’ll be buddy buddy with them all.
“We’ll be giving them nuclear arms. Next thing you know they’ll be attacking us again.”
What? WHAT????? Do some people actually shut out half the information they are given on the news? They are obviously wise enough to know an election is going on. Even the Republican’s own Colin Powell (who to be fair has always been what they call a RINO – Republican In Name Only) is backing the Democratic Obama:
He said: “I’m also troubled by, not what Senator McCain says, but what members of the party say, and it is permitted to be said.
“Such things as, ‘Well you know that Mr Obama is a Muslim’. Well, the correct answer is, ‘He is not a Muslim, he’s a Christian, he’s always been a Christian.’
“But the really right answer is, ‘What if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country?’ The answer is, ‘No. That’s not America.’
“Is there something wrong with some seven-year old Muslim-American kid believing that he or she can be president?
“Yet I have heard senior members of my own party drop the suggestion he’s a Muslim and he might be associated with terrorists.
“This is not the way we should be doing it in America.”
I’m starting to think that since America supposedly leads the so called free world as the most powerful nation on the planet that they should allow the rest of us to vote on who they choose.
It’s a shame I can’t get this worked up about British politics. In fact it seems my friends and I spend more time talking about foreign politics than we do about UK politics, but there’s no interesting characters in UK politics. Unlike the US, we don’t get to choose who runs our leading party, we only get to choose the party, and that’s becoming harder and harder. We have left wing Labour wanting to spend £12BILLION on tracking our private e-mails and phone calls, and yet the traditionally right wing Conservative party are claiming they would want to brink the NHS back up to scratch and put money back into education. Are we looking at a political switch sometime in the future? Things would just be too strange then.
