Barack Obama...

The tears are rolling down the faces. Crowds are hissing and booing, shrieking and singing, hugging and kissing. I'm sitting on a sofa, in Nottingham, connected through cyberspace and satellite to the most significant election that I have ever and possibly will ever see.

John McCain is losing gracefully (because there is always a next time) and thanking the Lord, who didn't turn up for him today, and making verbal love with America because nothing means more to him than being an American. The failure is his, not his supporters apparently. Doubtless members of the audience are cursing today, the day that a man they would still like to refer to as a slave, is just about to enter the White House.

He may have just lost his mind, he just called Sarah Palin 'one the best campaigners he has ever seen'. I truly hope I never see her botox stretched face on a publication or TV screen ever again. The fact is, the republicans have had their time, they can boo and hiss all they want but the time for blatant free-market economics mixed with a lust for war and appetite for oil has come to an end.

'Americans never quit, never surrender and never hide from history'. Wise Words by Senator McCain. They don't quit of course, not in Vietnam, not in Iraq. They don't surrender, to the will of the rich, no not at all. And hide from history, of course not, they always talk about the Bay of Pigs, about supporting General Pinochet, about arming Osama Bin Laden, nothing to be ashamed of, nothing at all.

They're expecting a million on the street of Chicago tonight. A million on a general election night. That wouldn't happen here and I wonder why. Because our politics is about real issues or because our politics offers no real change. Who knows?
We just don't do sexy and loud. The Americans are good at least at one of those.

4.34. McCain 48% Obama 51%. No noticeable third party. Does everyone only believe in one of two frighteningly similar viewpoints? That. Is. Fucking. Scary. Why do less than 1% of the 'most free country in the world' manage to see more than two options? I wonder if party funding has anything to do with it?

1 in 3 black American boys born in 2001 will go to prison. 1 in 5 black men in the USA today have been to prison. He has a lot to do. He needs to close Guantanamo Bay as well. So stop black boys fucking up their lives and close the most high profil illegal detention centre in the world. It's a start isn't it. Can he also get out of the middle east? Stop supporting the Israeli state with Nuclear weopans? Provide socialised healthcare, free at the point of use? Make America drive less? Get rid of the death penalty? Stop the CIA undermiming nations that have a political system to the left of centre? Provide proper aid to developing nations? Spend less on the military and more on social services?

No. He. Can't.

Gore Vidal: 'They love war, they love money' The Republicans. Nice.

I want more pictures of republicans crying, hopefully wrapped in American Flags. I'd also like to see someone speak, just one person who doesn't feel proud of their country. Proud of what? Taking 8 years to work out that cutting taxes for the rich, waging war on the poor and creating more and more instability in the world? Why don't people realise how moronic, base and immature blind patriotism can be? How do so many people have the allout nerve to suggest that America is a place where those who work hard for what they want will succeed? If that's the case why, in a country of 40% non-white, do we see so few black and hispanic people with power and money? Because they don't work hard enough, don't fucking insult us.

Sen. Obama has just dragged his poor children and wife onto a stage in Chicago. They'll all develop horrible drug habits.

'Hello Chicago, if there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible?...'
'Communism Barack?'
He speaks so well, it pisses me off. He's listing all the people who have voted. The 'United States of America'. How long until god gets a shout out? He is spewing garbage, it sounds pretty though. Thousands of flags are waving. He's being nice about McCain, a man he clealy hates but who has been in a POW camp, can't criticise him then. Thanking his wife and kids, who he has just promised a puppy. Ok here goes, his dead grandmother is watching, that's odd because she's..erm...dead.

This is dull. Thanking the whole fucking world. Let me guess, he's gonna thank us soon, or them, the people who went out and voted. Yep. 'IT belongs to you'.
10 American flags waving behind him.

A new spirit of patriotism. Fuck this. It's ten past 5.