Congratulations, Senator--President Elect--Obama

[innerslytherin]

Well, I'm not ashamed to say I voted for McCain (no, not Palin, but McCain). But I'm also not afraid to congratulate Barack Obama, and to say that I'm glad he has broken the color barrier in the White House, and I look forward to seeing what he does with his presidency.


I feel bound to say, as I always do, that the president really doesn't have the power people attribute to him, and I don't really expect the sweeping change that a lot of people expect. Maybe I'm realistic or maybe I'm just cynical, and I'll be the first to say that I'll be pleased if I'm wrong. But I really think that for the most part, a president is a president is a president. It's Congress that really matters.

Then again, Congress and the President Elect are going to be in agreement on a lot of things. So maybe I will be surprised.



In any case, I feel nothing more than mild disappointment about McCain's defeat, and while I know there are a lot of people at work tomorrow who will be pissed off (and OMG I'm going to have to pull out my earplugs, aren't I?), I'm still looking forward to seeing what the next four years bring.



OMG I really shouldn't have stayed up this late. And I really hope we pick up the slack tomorrow in NaNo, because damn. Election day killed us. *grin*

Comments

[innerslytherin]

It always floors me that you guys are that interested. :) Definitely an exciting night, though.

[essayel.livejournal.com]

We HAVE to be interested! These days your selection of President is slightly more important than our selection of Prime Minister. For instance, I very much doubt we'll go to war with Iran unless the US decides to and asks for our support. And the financial crisis - in the US there are problems but Iceland, Hungary and the Ukraine have gone bankrupt.

The President is the most powerful leader in the world. Everything he does is going to affect us whether we have any say in the matter or not. It's similar to the situation in the US in the 1770s when policy was decided in London and the colonists had no say in the matter.

[innerslytherin]

Well, I understand why you're interested, but seriously, just the fact that there are people who stayed up til 5 in the morning to find out who another country's president would be...

Though to be honest, it's not really that the president is powerful so much as that he's louder than Congress. *G* They have more power, broadly speaking...but then again, now that Obama has been elected, Congress and the president should be working together more.