yey I'm for Obama tooo wheee!
*is awaiting the result*

Hem well... I usually don't give my politic opinion on public board but because it's a great event, I'll make an exception

In fact, I think that I'm more close to the ideas of Obama, but it's hard to be sure because the media coverage of this election in France was really unfair (I tried to make an article about that for my school: http://en.lgdlab.fr/2008/11/02/united-states-presidential-election-viewed-from-france/).

Dagdamor
I'm not sure that Obama is against the second amendment. I think he just want to control a little bit guns sells (but people of USA are more aware of what Obama want to do about weapon's control than me, I guess).
In France, citizens don't have the right to carry weapons and I think that it's a good thing (there is a very low number of people who are shot in France each year).
But France and USA are two very different countries so I think I don't have the 'right' to judge what Americans do.


I'm waiting for the result too (it's 1 am in France and I work tomorrow but I want to see an approximate result before sleeping ).
Wait&See!

I leaned towards Obama (even though I would be comfortable with either candidate in the White House) simply because I like his running mate better than McCain's. Should the unthinkable happen, I would perfer Biden to Palin.

Just want to take this opportunity to say:

Congratulations President Obama!

I think this is a great step forward for the U.S., being that this is our first black president, the racial boundaries have really been shattered. November 4th, 2008 - a great day for freedom.

I'm waiting for Euronews here (they should start translating here any moment), to see the details about the elections. I know this won't affect my life much, but I'm glad Obama won! Hehe, now I believe that Americans don't have racist complexes and can think their own minds

Let's see where all this will go. When we elected Medvedev, nobody really believed in him like in new president - he was pure Putin's follower, and he was the only decent pretender here (some moments concerning our last election campaign still make me turn red), but some time has passed, and Medvedev started looking much more assured and confident. I'm sure Obama will easily pass the same way

He will experience many problems on his way, too. Right now America seems to be not the best economy to inherit. Makes me remember about Lisa's reaction in "Bart to the Future"...

Aw.... here I was digging the Wig.

Dagdamor
I think he means that he wanted Hillary Clinton to beat Barack Obama in the Democratic primaries.

Black_raven
Well it was, after June. What happens is this:

First the Republicans and the Democrats have to decide who their candidate is. These are called "primaries" and basically voters have to decide who will represent their party. Obama beat runners like John Edwards, Joe Biden (who would eventually become his Vice President), and the one who gave him the biggest run for his money, Hillary Clinton. It was a very close call between Clinton and Obama, but in June it was decided.

It's the same way that John McCain had to defeat runners like Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, and Ron Paul in the Republican primaries (although he was the clear-cut winner, as opposed to the months of Obama/Hillary fighting).

Ah okay I get it now ^_^; Wondered why Hillary was in the news a lot a while back but I didn't really understand or realise what was going on as I was rather busy with my exams back then...

I'm going to throw in my two cents here, but only briefly and with as little anger as possible. I personally HATE the way this whole vote went. Not due to the fact that Obama won, but because there was no lesser of the evils in this case. I personally wanted to see either obama or hillary to win, simply because I wanted to see who the next gunman on the Grassy Knoll was going to be. But to be totally serious I truly wanted to just see this election slide away and find that nothing had really changed.

Change is the big word that for some reason keeps going around in this election too. I guess Obama I supposed to be this big spire of difference for the country and i think that for the most part, people are looking at his race more than his actual experience. (Yes I am playing the reverse race card here.) While I am not going to say that McCain would have done better, I dont know much of his whole campaign, giving that I was in Basic Training away from a TV for three months, I do know that Obama shouldn't be looked upon as the fork in the road for our government.

If he intends to change things, he had better start quick. The senator, now President Elect, spent two years in his job and never once even bothered to attempt to put a bill out for any kind of change. Call me an ass, but I really dont find that little nugget of information to be all that settling.

So I might be a bit biased too... I happen to like my job and McCain is an ex-soldier/ POW, so I tend to give him a little more credit than Obama. besides that the last time that a Democrat took office (WillyJ in the hiz-ouse) governmental spending was suspended for 5 weeks, which means that no one who worked a government based job got paid at all for that whole month and a week. Yes Billy did do a good number of good things (not including the cow... *Shifty eyes*) he still needed a lot of work and I really dont want things to hit the fan like that again. Remember History always repeats itself.

I'll stop here...before I ostracize myself anymore.

G.H.

Thats exactly what I meant, thanks for explaining it I didnt really understand how it worked before.

Vanguard20
What gays have to do with this? Obama neither supports them nor plans to act against them IIRC. This is called tolerance, something you should know too... In his first months, Obama will have much, much more important problems to handle rather than sexual minorities.