well all breathe a huge sigh of relief

everyone i know, and everyone i speak to is breathing sighs of relief that Obama has been voted president elect of usa. PHEW. i was almost scared to go to sleep that night, nervous that he would not be voted in at the last minute.. but hurray!

in a slight way it kind of reminded me of when finally at last tony blair and labour got voted in after years of gruelling ghastly conservatives.. such euphoria, so much emotion - a new start .. etc etc. however, of course, inevitably, those emotions faded over the years as a new government can only take ages it seems to make changes. politics seems slow. we in the uk have become cynical - well i should speak for myself! i have become cynical - i have felt 'party politics' is dead and all we have now are Thatcher's children..

i know its an awful lot more complicated than that - but it seems there are no more values or beliefs, there is only economics. but this is where Barak Obama's election feels different - because it denotes so much more than just another party with different economic ideas. not saying economics is not important because of course it is, but there are so many more issues, and it looks like he is going to try to deal with some of them.

just - after the emotional euphoria settles down, then - he has to still be given a chance.. lets try not to go all cynical if things dont change immediately..