The Next US President is...

[Katahu]

President Barack Obama

The First African American to be elected President of the United States of America.

The 44th President

The first Democrat to be elected with a landside since Bill Clinton.

All I can say is this:

I'm so proud of my country.

PS: I hope this post does not violate the forum rules. I know the rules very well. I just wanted to let everyone know.

[The Ruptured Duck]

this thread will self destruct in 5...4...3...2...1 LOL

I was very impressed with mccains concession speach and congrats to president elect Obama, I hope this ushers in a new era of understanding and cooperation in American politics!

Keep it clean folks

[Felix/FFDS]

President Barack Obama

The First African American to be elected President of the United States of America.

The 44th President

The first Democrat to be elected with a landside since Bill Clinton.

Landslide?  Not quite - as far as presidential elections go.

He IS the first Democrat elected since Clinton, though..

All I can say is this:

I'm so proud of my country.

PS: I hope this post does not violate the forum rules. I know the rules very well. I just wanted to let everyone know.

It IS something to be proud, though, that you can change the government - in effect, an "overthrow" of the government, in a peaceful manner.

[WebbPA]

I'm so proud of my country.

Why?  What country are you from?

5...4...3...2...1

[WebbPA]

The most eye-opening civics lesson I ever had was while teaching third grade. The presidential election was heating up and some of the children showed an interest.  I decided we would have an election for a class president.  We would choose our nominees.  They would make a campaign speech and the class would vote.

         To simplify the process,  candidates were nominated by other class members.  We discussed what kinds of characteristics these students should have. We got many nominations and from those, Jamie and Olivia were picked to run for the top spot.

         The class had done a great job in their selections.  Both candidates were good kids.  I thought Jamie might have an advantage because he got lots of parental support.  I had never seen Olivia

[BAW0343]

[quote]The most eye-opening civics lesson I ever had was while teaching third grade. The presidential election was heating up and some of the children showed an interest.

[The Ruptured Duck]

[quote]The most eye-opening civics lesson I ever had was while teaching third grade. The presidential election was heating up and some of the children showed an interest.

[tcco94]

I remember my post about the Election a week ago got deleted.. :-/ for not even knowing the rules..

Im dissapointed tonight very dissapointed and not only that fact scared for our country now and for Obama...

[BFMF]

Ok guys, Lets forget about all the political nonsense, and get back to simming, and the normal life at SimV.... 8-)

[Mushroom_Farmer]

[4_Series_Scania]

President Obama and the world

By John Simpson
BBC World Affairs Editor

The United States has seen the biggest transformation in its standing in the world since the election of John Fitzgerald Kennedy in November 1960.
Barack Obama on 4 November
The world's expectations of an Obama administration are high

This is a country which has habitually, sometimes irritatingly, regarded itself as young and vibrant, the envy of the world. Often this is merely hype. But there are times when it is entirely true.

With Barack Obama's victory, one of these moments has arrived.

The US has never been so unpopular, so derided, and so dismissed by the outside world as it has in the latter stages of George W Bush's presidency. The other day I asked Madeleine Albright, President Clinton's formidable secretary of state, if she could remember a time when people hated America so much.

Expectations abroad

"Not in my lifetime," she answered. "I feel very strongly about this country, and what an exceptional, amazing country it is. But I honestly think this is about as bad as I've seen it."

Opinion polls around the world have confirmed America's unpopularity. And the chance that a young, apparently pleasant and modest black man might become its president was greeted favourably everywhere.

Last summer a poll for the BBC World Service, conducted in 22 countries, indicated that people preferred Barack Obama to John McCain by four to one. Almost half said that if Senator Obama were elected, it would change their view of the United States completely.
     

America is no longer the power it was. It can still lead, but it is no longer in a position to dictate to the wider world


For eight years the word that people around the world have used again and again to describe the approach of George W Bush's presidency is "arrogance". The tone in Washington seemed to be one of superiority amounting almost to contempt.

Think of the speeches by men like Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, or Paul Bremer. All were closely concerned with the occupation of Iraq, which was carried out in defiance of opinion in most of the rest of the world.

Why did the US invade Iraq? "Because we are America," said another leading figure in the enterprise, famously. "We can."

Outside this country, most people would probably agree with Madeleine Albright's judgement when she spoke to me: "I think Iraq will go down in history as the greatest disaster of American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam."

In the rush to war in 2003, when many American politicians were frightened to stand out against the crowd, Barack Obama condemned the invasion loudly and publicly.

No guarantee

The fact that he has been elected president is his reward for that. And everyone around the world who felt that the Iraq war was wrong will feel that America has now chosen a different path - a path that leads away from extraordinary rendition, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, waterboarding and all the rest of it.

America is no longer the power it was. Without meaning to, President Bush demonstrated that. It can still lead, but it is no longer in a position to dictate to the wider world.

Barack Obama clearly understands this. As an African-American (literally, since his father was from Kenya) his background is not one of privilege and superiority. He will be open to the world in a way President Bush never was. And he will show once again the value of the American dream.

This is no guarantee that he will be a success as President. Jimmy Carter understood the US's reduced position in the post-Vietnam world, and he refused to dictate to the world. Nowadays most Americans regard him as a failure.

But the outside world is set to be delighted by Barack Obama's victory. And its view of America will change accordingly.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americ ... 708893.stm

Well done America for electing the future, not the past.

[a1]

Great more politics on the forums.


It's enough to hear all the lies within the annoying commercials and TV spots.

I don't need to hear more about politics on the forums.

[Omag 2.0]

Well, as a European I wish to say that I've taken notice of the unfolding events and I'm hoping for the best. Both for America and the world...

That's all we can do really...  ;)

[commoner]

Good luck to the Guy....He's really going to need it with the situation he has inherited............. :-/

Just be careful what you say though,,,there are some VERY sensitive souls on this forum

[Fozzer]

All I can think to say, is that he, and his advisor's, have got a serious job on their hands sorting out a myriad of problems in the United States alone...

Their Foreign Policy also involves serious consideration....

...lets hope for everyone's sake, they get everything right...quite quickly.. ..!

So...Congratulations on the Election of your new President!.. [smiley=thumbsup.gif]...!

F..... ...!