A Cajun-Asian View

My hat's off to you, Mr. Barack Obama, for your win for the 2008 Election for the President of the United States of America1. I hope you run our U.S. Executive office as well as you've run your campaign. I will be right in the line to complain if you don't2.

And if nothing else, I stand proud for being a part of this historic moment. To tell the truth, I am partly in shock that this country could elect a half-black man to lead it for the next four years. Despite all of the polls and trends predicting your win, the pessimist in me kept me from being confident that it could happen.

Nonetheless, congratulations.

Now take some time to celebrate. Finish up your Senate duties. And be ready to hit the ground running on January 20th.

1. 1. Of course, not all the electoral votes are in at this point, but it's largely a formality now.
2. 2. Especially since I did vote for you!

Just a message from the humble host of this not very popular website:

If you are a U.S. citizen and haven't voted yet, please do so today. It doesn't matter if you don't like either of the top two choices; if you absolutely refuse to vote for either of them, vote for the third party that best matches your views. Yeah, it's "wasting your vote" as some people say it, but it's the best way we, as U.S. citizens, can say we have "no confidence" in the standard two choices in this rather restricting two-party system that dominates U.S. politics. Not voting doesn't hold that same message.

For those of you that are either not U.S. citizens or have voted early1, have a good November 4th, 2008.

And for those you are U.S. citizens, no matter who is elected, feel free to fully criticize his actions in office2. That is the American way.

1. 1. like I did
2. 2. Even if he was your choice to begin with.