Finally back into the swing after the end of year jaunt to the other side of the globe. While we have been away election fever in the US has been hotting up, as the world sits on the edge of it’s collective seat waiting to see if American has grown up to be a nation that could elect their first black president.
With this global backdrop the whole issue around Bush serving his allowance of terms and the general importance of the US as a country came up in conversation a number of times. The general thread being how could a nation have elected a dummy time and time again, and isn’t it about time the rest of the world got to have some kind of say in the decision of the next president when that country keeps involving the rest of us in their problems – financial collapses, wars, oil prices etc etc.
So I’m glad to see someone out there is at least giving us the chance to cast out votes – and show what the rest of the world might collectively be thinking – as they are at iftheworldcouldvote.com. Simply put it logs where you are voting from and lets you chose between Obama and McCain, then the results are available broken down by country.
Hopefully this kind of thing will help the average American make up their mind, so we can all start being friends with the USofA again.
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And so the people of the USA had their final say and chose the guy the rest of the world seems to have been hoping for. What the future will bring is anyone’s guess, it is politics after all, that aside history has still been made and world seems a little more positive than it did the day before.