Good Day For America

I am very pleased to see Hillary Clinton do well tonight. I will never vote for her personally, but I used to know her personally so my reasons aren't yours. I may yet vote for Obama one day.

This is bigger than her though. In America we have somehow come to a point where before the election even happens the media tells us the outcome, and encourages contenders to drop out. Mike Huckabee, another person I would never vote for, didn't drop out of the race until he was out of the race. Good for him. Congratulations to John McCain, a man I never thought I'd vote for in my life, but whose class alone might win my vote.

I spend too much time reading the Russian papers, and it was hard to watch the Russian controlled media basically pick the winners before the votes take place. The public was resigned to Putin's choice because from the Russian media's perspective, there was no other choice.

I look at our nation and observe similarities and contrasts. The US media has been attempting to execute the same control over Democratic Party voters before they get their say on election day. They carry too much hubris to see how similar they are in that regard to what recently happened in Russia.

It pleases me to no end to continuously observe the media get it wrong in the US. It is one of the best signs we will ever visibly observe that it is the people who have the voice, not those who talk the most at us, and in our country we the people decide what happens.

The elections today, regardless of the final outcome, was a good sign for democracy, it was a good day for America.