Two winners and two losers
von Heinz Gupta
The longest ever recruitment campaign, as described by an insider in the USA, is over. But two winners and two losers?
Let us have a look at the losers first:
John McCain, an honourable man, who has overcome his own personal adversity and taken upon himself the cross of an almost endless election campaign as a 72 year old.
That he lost, was more of a settling of accounts with the Bush regime that has brought the American people and the world so much human, moral and economic misery. Who else lost?
The election commission because of wrong voting forms, because of undermanned polling stations and faulty voting computers.
And this in a country that stands as a model of technical and organisational excellence, in the land of Microsoft and Silicon valley. And all this, despite the fact there were already problems with the computers during the last election.
What an example for the rest of the world!
And the winners?
Obviously, above all Barak Obama, from whom not only many Americans but also many, many people in the rest of the world hope for a new America.
The biggest winners, however, were the voters and democracy. The high voter turn-out, the hundreds of metres long queues of voters waiting patiently in front of the polling stations that prove even ordinary people can be moved, to get out and determine their own fate by voting.
Overcoming racial prejudice and overcoming a fossilised establishment.
What a wonderful example for the world! Hopefully Barak Obama and his fellow campaigners will succeed in dismantling the many disasters that Mr. Bush has left for him in America and in the whole world.
In this spirit: God bless America, God bless Obama and last but not least God bless the world!
Your Heinz Gupta