Today is – I hope – a great day. After eight years of utter madness, a lunatic will hand over the reigns of power to someone who seems to actually be intelligent. Finally, finally, George Bush will leave the office of President of the United States. This day could not have come soon enough.
My impressions of Obama are good, but I’m always wary. One thing he’s certainly doing is living up to his promises of “change”. Guantanamo Bay will begin the shutdown procedure during his first week in office. This alone is a huge step in international relations as it was a clever loophole that avoided the Gevena Convention.
I only hope such things aren’t a little gloss on his first few weeks and that he doesn’t sink into the usual nonsense we’re used to from politicians.
Bush’s final speeches have been full of hyperbole and nonsense, either ignoring or twisting virtually everything he’s done over the last eight years. According to them, he’s overcome problems and managed a surprising number of achievements. No mention of the fact that he’d not have had to overcome so many of these issues if he’s not caused them in the first place.
But let’s not dwell on the past. Let’s hope for the future. I’m very happy to see a new face in the White House, especially one that’s come pretty much from left field. Obama seems genuinely intelligent and pretty honest – and also very keen to stamp his mark in a good way.
I wish him the best. Both out of relief and out of hope and partly out of belief. And I thank America for voting him in. It’s making me genuinely happy to see someone who’s at least not an obvious idiot in the most powerful office in the world.
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a woman I work with (husband is a US citizen) reckons Obama will be assassinated(and I kind of agree with her). Too many nutjob rascists, religious fundamentalists and idiots with access the automatic weapons.
Whether he *will* is possible. Whether someone will *try* – doubtless. He was given secret service protection far earlier in his campaign than any other candidate.
The question is how well they do to keep him safe. I bloody hope they do a good job. After all, Bush was/is reviled yet there were no obvious attacks on him… that we know of. I’m sure there were attempts over the last 8 years that were quashed early on.
Fingers crossed for the guy. Let’s see how he gets on. At the end of the day he’s still a politician so I’m reserving judgement until I see results.