UK should follow Americas lead?

Firstly, let me say that I am still trying to find the words to describe how I feel about Barack Hussien Obama, President Elect of the United States of America.

All I will say is that I wanted him to lose. Not because I dislike him or his politics but because I strongly disapproved of the lame duck president, george w bush (emphasis on the lower case) who will pass Obama the worst inherited presidential situation in (my) living memory. Obama might come out of all this after 4 years owning Bush's failures which will have an adverse effect on race relations in the United States.

I have seen this lame duck tell a nation to go “shopping” in response to a terrorist attack when he should have provided a defiant call to arms, a call to protect the liberties and freedoms which the United States people enjoy. I have seen America turn a blind eye to a whole community while it was drowning, for which there are no conceivable exonerative explanations to explain the lame duck's actions. I have seen this lame duck lie to a global community in order to pursue, as the now president-elect rightly characterised, “a dumb war”.

I can’t find any reasons for which george w bush hasn’t been impeached or tried with war crimes. BUT there is time.

So what does this election say for England? Can we find our very own Obama?

Let me say this: That is the single most short sighted question I have heard people ask.

It wasn’t long ago that a group of people other than people of African origin here in the United Kingdom and in the United States of America where unable to vote, treated as second class citizens and disrespected by people in their own home. What did England do about it? Well on May 4th, 1979, they elected Margret Thatcher Prime Minister by voting the Conservative party to government.

I wish people will stop seeing the UK as the poodle to the US. We have a long history of leading and breaking barriers. Yes, Obama’s election has broken another one of the western worlds longest held taboo’s but as a nation, the US has a long way to go to fulfill Dr Martin Luther King,Jr’s dream.