Election 2008

So this post is really more a shout out to Obama and the election last night than anything else.

Here in Ghana, we stayed up until dawn to see the results and hear the acceptance speech. I went to a watch party hosted by the NYU program at the university. It was a pretty big event with American students, Ghanaian students and other members of the Ghanaian and American abroad community. Of course, the special attraction was the large screen CNN with their frequent projections of who gets what state and how things are going. And at 4am, which is what time it was here when the 11 o'clock polls closed, and CNN projected victory, the atmosphere was more than slightly euphoric. And for all of you in the rest of the world, there really is such as thing as the Barack Obama song, by Black Rasta, and you should all look it up. It might just be amazing, or hilarious, and is very fun to dance to when Obama has just been announced as president-elect of the United States of America(which is quite different, by the way, from President of the world, which is what one Ghanaian radio broadcaster was claiming today while I was on a tro-tro...).

We've been passing the day on a cloud. Its been a long eight years, most of my political consciousness, and it definitely feels time for a change, and what a change. I really hope and believe that if anyone can unite Americans, it is Obama. Even his acceptance speech was graceful(and props to McCain for a super gracious speech as well).

Obama did it, we the American people did it, and I have so much hope(and a good dose of realism) for the next four years! As Obama likes to say, "Yes we can!"