Happy new prez!

Congrats to my US friends for the positive (for most here, I think) outcome of your elections. There were times when I was dismayed by the viciousness of the primary campaigning, but being an outsider, I thought either of the two Democrat candidates would have made good Presidents. However, I also felt that Obama would be more electable, simply because of the absolute level of hatred Hilary seemed to elicit from certain sectors. While I'm sure most of it was pure sexism, I don't think that factored any more than racism. It came down to relative levels of trust, and Obama simply hasn't been around long enough to screw that up yet.

Anyway, enough of that cod "analysis": I can't possibly know the true depth of the ins and outs of public perception of the candidates in another country. I can say, however, congratulations on electing someone who appears not to be likely to perpetuate the worst errors of the recent past; here's hoping he can avoid making stonkingly bad decisions on his own account.

(Icon of me in one of my Hawaiian shirts... just because)