President Obama
05th November 2008
It's 2 hours since CNN announced to the crowds gathered in Times Square that Barack Obama’s the new President of the United States of America. That was at 11pm, and the place erupted: Obama, Obama, Obamaobamaobama from the crowd and beep beep beep from the taxi drivers. It’s 1am now, and I can still hear people shouting out the name of the man who promises change and carries the hopes of not one nation, but many across the world.
Today was truly exciting. In fact, the whole week has been. This election has dominated conversations on the streets while I’ve been walking the length and breadth of Manhattan; and my interpretation of events over the handful of days that I’ve been here is that nothing but an Obama win would do: expectation and inevitability mixed with a dash of fear and ‘what if he doesn’t win’ thrown in.
The sheer numbers that came out to watch and witness the result speaks volumes. The cheers for Obama and boos when McCain won a state were pure pantomime, but it was no laughing matter, not until the final announcement anyway.
Never before have I been so absorbed or excited by a Presidential election, let’s hope the next 4 years live up to the hype.
Today was truly exciting. In fact, the whole week has been. This election has dominated conversations on the streets while I’ve been walking the length and breadth of Manhattan; and my interpretation of events over the handful of days that I’ve been here is that nothing but an Obama win would do: expectation and inevitability mixed with a dash of fear and ‘what if he doesn’t win’ thrown in.
The sheer numbers that came out to watch and witness the result speaks volumes. The cheers for Obama and boos when McCain won a state were pure pantomime, but it was no laughing matter, not until the final announcement anyway.
Never before have I been so absorbed or excited by a Presidential election, let’s hope the next 4 years live up to the hype.