I'm behind by mere three minutes and seven seconds, but I do apologize. Champagne glasses?
It's on me.
Hey, people over there are looking at us with empty champagne glasses in their hands.
I told you, I've been waiting.
You have invited those people, too? Now, how many bottles did you order?
Well, let's start with one.
I should have known! Anyway, I didn't think it would make you so euphoric.
I didn't either. It makes a difference whether you say a Democrat candidate won, or a person with an African father and a non-Anglo name was elected. Think about it. You hear someone say, "And, here is the President of the United States," and the next thing you see is an African-American. What's more, if the First Lady happens to be there, you see that she's African-American, too.
I thought you cared more about what each candidate promised to do. Just as you warned against electing the President based on her/his biological attributes, you shouldn't be happy because of the skin color and the name of the President elect.
I didn't know if the American people were ready to choose someone with colored skin and Hussein as the middle name. It does show that many Americans did not want to have a white President over a black one at all cost. It gives me tremendous hope.
Indeed, the election results were on the front page all over the world, and many have used the word, "historic," to describe the event.
See how people around the world are happy. I cannot remember when all of us were so hopeful, or at least, relieved. Muammar al-Gaddafi had endorsed him as a Muslim African brother before the election, so he, too, must be celebrating.
That could be a liability... We shouldn't forget that Barack is for civic unions for gay couples, but against gay marriages.
That is a great disappointment, indeed. But he does oppose "Don't ask, don't tell" policy in the US military.
Let me remind you that we all love baklava, but the Muslims are still discriminated against. I haven't heard anyone declare their dislike of baklava because of its affinity with the Middle East and Central Asia.
Not all have dismissed Jewish conspiracies as nonsense, after the "discovery" of bagels by New Yorkers and people elsewhere.
This is not the end of racial inequalities or the war in Iraq. In fact, Barack is half Caucasian and half African, but very few have said anything about his presentation of himself as an African-American.
True, I haven't heard any Caucasian saying, "But you are, in a way, one of us," or any African saying "But you are only partially one of us."
Isn't that a problem?
He does seem to understand both sides, however. So, you are saying that it's not the end of all armed conflicts, economic turmoil, income inequalities, gender biases, American cultural and political hegemony, human trafficking, narcotics trade, developed countries' paying to dump hazardous wastes in developing countries, climate change, deforestation, cruelty to animals, discrimination against the disabled, golden parachutes, obesity, hatred, greed and...
No to all of the above, unfortunately. Let's hope the future events would be such that our hopes are justified.
The bigger the hope has been, the deeper the disappointment could be.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry had his fox say in "Le Petit Prince," "Tu deviens responsable pour toujours de ce que tu as apprivoisé."
"You become responsible forever for what you have tamed." ... We should enjoy while the hope lasts. Can't we at least toast for the end of Dubya regime?
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