Obama and me.

I never really blogged on the US Election around the time of the 4th November. Part of the reason for this is that I was driving along in my car during the day of the election, I looked overhead to see a flock of white birds had just taken flight above me. That's nice, I thought. Freedom, liberation, purity - perhaps today will be a good day for America and the world.

As that though was passing through my mind, a huge load of bird shit landed on my windscreen, like heavy bird shit rain. White globules of "ha ha we're birds and we can shit on your car if we want to". Appropriately, I shouted "oh shit!". Then I turned on the wind-screen wipers by accident, smearing the mess all over. Then I tried to turn on the windscreen wash button, only to dilute their pasty white crap and give my windscreen a white hue as if I had smoked it out.

It occurred to me that on this momentous day in world history, when something great was happening in America, a flock of birds had decided to shit on my day, and my car.

Luckily for the world (but not for me), this was not a case of 'same shit, different day'. Obama romped to a historic victory. Did he change the world that day? Yes, I think he did. Did he change America? Time will tell.

But, let us not let thoughts of the future shit on his parade. He achieved a great and wonderful thing that day, and his honorable campaigners (and of course their generous financial backers - no shit) should receive all the plaudits.

John McCain's campaign however, well that was just a crock of shit, wasn't it? Every time I saw a clip of him on the road, Mississippi, Ohio, Florida, he was just shootin' the shit, totally directionless, without policies that affected any real change in the Obama sense of the word. Shit, he didn't stand a chance.

Well, i'm glad Americans stood their ground and went with the right man. It's a very exciting political time right now, and it can only be a good thing that millions of first-time voters are entering a political climate which engages their interest like no other before it.

Obama comes into effect 20th January.

 Something is going to hit the fan.

Let's hope my car stays in tact.