I hear Greg Sheridan's wife has booked a flight to DC for the 'inauguration'
1) Never having to hear Sarah "Caribou Barbie" Palin's voice ever again.
2) An end to the idiotic, constantly wrong and eternally clueless coverage of the race by the Australian media. They. Have. Not. Got. A. Clue. In their defence, the story doesn't involve trawling Facebook for peoples' pictures so we should try and understand how hard things are. Most of them don't seem to have a clue that early voting has been going on for about a week already, a significant proportion of eligible voters (compared to last election) have already voted, and that the early voters are trending towards Obama. This is important because early votes have typically trended Republican.
3) An end to the constant racist reporting on black people. Here's a hint, if you do stories on black voters that always involve a hip talking black person on the street and black people singing soul songs, you are a racist motherfucker. No, black people won't vote for someone because they are black, no it doesn't matter. These are the same people who voted for Bill fucking Clinton and every single other white Democrat president since they were allowed to vote. Obama didn't even have a particularly high level of support among African Americans when he started his run. Why? Because he's half African and half American and some African Americans had (and some idiotically still do) a problem with that. He had to fight for their votes too and the media would know that if they weren't blinded by racism and incompetence.
4) Australian wingnuts having to eat shit everytime president Obama is mentioned.
5) The tantalising possibility of the Murdoch sleaze empire fading into irrelvance everywhere except the UK.
6) The inevitable contradictory reactions of the cruise missile left when Bush's wars become Obama's wars.
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I'll never understand why people belittle Obama's accomplishments because he's black. He's managed to reach out to a majority of the people in the US and inspire them to believe in something better than what they have. I'm sure there will be people who vote based purely on black/white lines but I think most people are smarter than that these days.
I guess it'd be the same if it was Hilary in front - that'd be because she's a woman not because she was capable.
Oh and Caribou Barbie...there's a push for her in 2012. That nails on a chalkboard trainwreck will be back.
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