Waking to incredulity

I do not normally do much politics on my blog.

That should not be taken to mean that I am not a political animal.

I woke up a little while ago to almost a changed landscape.

I was frankly surprised, I half expected a wave of contested counts and broken votimg machines and a republican winner just like we had a while ago.

Instead America has a democrat president but lets look at this again.

Obviously Obama is Black, something in itself but he is also a new generation American and not of a long standing family of the American political elite. That too incredibly significant.

America has been flagged up as the best democracy money can buy but, this president was elected on peoples 10 and 20 dollars not so much on corporations billions.

Crucially, Americans have almost always not quite trusted their president. If the Republicans had the presidency there was a democratic check and balance in the congress and senate to hold them in check.

Today America threw itself behind the democrats and people turned out for democracy a turn out we in Britain can only look at and gasp.

Of course this is the American political establishment; they might yet shoot him.

R