Congratulations Obama. You did good. Of course until 3 months ago i was sure that Americans will refuse to vote in a woman or a black. Turn of events especially the financial crisis pushed people over completely. Good for them.
But i still see that women are not free to become the leader of the free world. So one can be a governor or a senator but the moment you want to be the pres/VP your clothes are a question, your background is a question, your kids are analysed, your beer drinking style questioned, your laugh mocked.
I would be less concerned about it if Indian television news channels did not ape the american ones blindly. Why do they believe that i am interested in Hillary Clinton's laugh? or why would i be upset that Sarah Palin spent 150,000 dollars on clothes. Given that Obama has spent 530 million and McCain 250 millionon the campaign, this sounds like a paltry sum. If it were India the next few years of the government would be spent by the MPs and Ministers looting the country to make good this amount. hopefully that is not going to happen in the US.
News channels in india spent much of 4th and 5th November tracking the american elections. Was is paucity of news or their impression of how indian public looks at the event, that drove them to do this?
my own impression, nothing that Obama does for the next few months is going to pay off, if they ever do. Its pretty much going to be each country for its own. And when people are used to the new economic situation, they will care for a different set of things and the muck will never be cleaned up completely. only get a new paint of coat or a carpet over it.
I am sure the news channels will spend tons of time telling us what they believe he should do. That is going to be another bunch of waste of time i am not looking forward to.
