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Watching the news channels in the US this morning, I am both amazed and amused by their inability to deal with the Obama win. It's like the old song lyrics go: "The Battle is done, and we kinda won, so we sound our victory cheer. Now tell me, where do we go from here?"

CNN is still a cornucopias of holograms and colors, with them still stressing over the number of senate and house seats whose ballots haven't been counted yet, and getting the right amount of popular votes for each candidate, bec… Continue

The McCain concession speech was gracious and classy, while his crowd was anything but that. The McCain supporters booed hard whenever the name of Sarah Palin was mentioned, even as she seemed visibly shaken and in tears. While I do understand that emotions did run high in this election, and that McCain supporters really didn't want Obama to win at all, I also know that some humility is required, at least for the sake of the candidate. They didn't give him that, but he still walked out with Prid… Continue

Black man given the nation's worst job

WASHINGTON—African-American man Barack Obama, 47, was given the least-desirable job in the entire country Tuesday when he was elected president of the United States of America. In his new high-stress, low-reward position, Obama will be charged with such tasks as completely overhauling the nation's broken-down economy, repairing the crumbling infrast… Continue

Or at least, at this point, there is no way for McCain to win. So yeah, GO OBAMA!

Today, as anybody on the Globe knows, is the day of the american elections, where the world sits by with its hand on its heart, waiting for the choice 130 million american voters will make: Either Go with another 4 years of Republican Presidency with McCain, or Change to Democratic Rule with Obama. Over in Austin Texas, there isn't much of a competition: In what is referred to as the Blue Oasis in the Sea of Red, this town is heavily tilting towards Obama in a major way.

When you start walking… Continue