No, It's got nothing to do with the party he represents. I'm not a democrat or republican, I'm not even American!
Neither do I think there will be any direct or immediate benefit to me. As a Software Engineer in Sri Lanka I'm not overjoyed when someone talks about not giving tax breaks to US companies that outsource; if he actually does that he's probably going to make things worse for the IT industry here, not better!
It's not the whole person-of-color thing either. Yes, I have dark brown skin, but wasn't happy when Lewis Hamilton became Formula One World Champ this year and hate Timo Glock for making him that! From the beginning Lewis came across as such a media wh**e, to me he's almost like Paris Hilton but with real talent. I didn't celebrate the first black formula one champion's victory.
Why then?
It's because whether the rest of us like it or not America has the world's biggest economy and most powerful military and it's better for everybody if someone with a little intelligence is in charge.
It's because this time the Americans seem to have kept the problems their country is facing in mind in the voting booth, and chosen the pair of candidates who seemed to have the better solution, instead of the ones who said "What problems? America is awesome and we're more religious, patriotic and real-American, so vote for us!" Gives us all hope!
It's because Obama can and does inspire; I just watched his 2004 keynote and yesterday's acceptance speeches and they actually motivated me, someone completely outside his target audience, and got me believing in the change that's coming. Hey, he's got me writing this post, so I can only imagine the effect he'll have on actual Americans as their president!
I've always had a lot of respect for Putin; ex. secret agent, Judo black belt, got a country back on it's feet from the brink of collapse and so on. Suddenly America has a cool president too! Damn, now everybody's gonna want one!
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