Barack Obama Elected President
Well, it looks like America will have her first half-black president. This
is good news in itself; within living memory it would have been
impossible for him to vote in many states and now he's president. We've
come a long way indeed. My grandmother let her black neighbour
use her washing machine because the local laundromat wouldn't let
coloured folks in (only they didn't use a nice word
like coloured
), and now a majority of the electorate have put a
black man in the White House. Perhaps this will be the end of
racial paranoia, which would be an excellent development. Regardless,
it's a nice indication that one of our great national sins is well and
truly in the past.
If Obama carries out his promise to allow the states to administer medical-marijuana programmes, that would be a good thing for sick people and for the Republic.
I hope that the Right doesn't get Obama Derangement Syndrome like the Left got Bush Derangement Syndrome and the Right got Clinton Derangement Syndrome.
I hope that he governs wisely and well; if he does then our nation will prosper.
