Obama did Win – Happy Days

5Nov/082

Obama did Win – Happy Days

Image by Barack Obama via FlickrI hoped he would. I expected him to, and yet there was this little sneak of doubt in there because of the Bradley Effect idea or the possibility of chicanery by somebody. And I didn't expect it to be such a blow-out. I was working and just checking in on cnn.com occasionally. When I left work the score was 174 to 68. By the time I was halfway home Obama had garnered 373 and McCain was conceding.

Marilyn is a bit of a cynic and figures Obama doesn't have the experience to get anything done. I'm an optimist. As far as I'm concerned, experience was the problem with McCain. That is before he drafted Palin. Once that happened he had much bigger problems.

When the only tool you have is a hammer you tend to go around pounding things because its what you know how to do and the tool predisposes you to do that. Experience is the same way. You're apt to redraw reality to make it seem to conform to problems you know how to solve. If you don't have experience (and you don't panic) you can see things more for what they really are and notice things that wouldn't make it past the filter of preconceptions that the old hands have.

We aren't out of the woods, and Obama ain't Moses. But, because of his vision there is a chance to work with the rest of the world and start to get things back in order. Just a chance, mind you, but with the Bush outlook as the dominant vision of the country there was no chance. So we are much better off today than we were yesterday and I'm a happy, happy man. Congratulations America.

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Mike Stanger 1 year ago 1 point
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As much as experience may or may not play in favour or against Obama, I expect that the biggest influence his victory may have is the provision of hope and positivity.

When leaders bring with them a baggage of negativity, they lack vision, don't have the trust of the people and rule by fear, the society will become insular, protective and reactive in ways that approach survival instincts rather than approaching problems with creativity and intelligence.

Obama, if he had no other abilities (though I believe he does) seems to have brought the possibility that things can be made better to the forefront of peoples' minds. That kind of positivity can be infectious and powerful and one can only hope that it also brings with it a realignment of American foreign policy as well as a reversal of the recent upswing of fascism that has marked the greater portion of the last decade.

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Barb 1 year ago 1 point
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I agree, Glenn...

We might not be "out of the woods" yet, but at least we're out of the Bushes and anything that even resembles a Bush!

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