The World’s Congratulations, Obama

I don’t think I’ve ever witnessed an election this crazy. For the past eighteen and a half years of my life, every election has failed to get me hyped up – until now, where it had not only me, but everyone else mumbling to and fro about it.

Perhaps it was because I was young, and did not know anything; maybe it wasn’t me, and the media just brushed away each and every election with a “oh, okay, game over, he won, go back to your daily lives”.

But looking at the way people – not just in the United States, but around the world – reacted to this particular election’s results (least of all McCain, who basically told his booing supporters to shut up and deal with it in his concession speech), I can’t help but join in this supposed swelling of American pride after watching Obama’s victory speech last night.

I don’t think that’s ever happened to me before. Congratulations, Barack Obama, on making me, and a whole bunch of other people, actually care for once.