Once again the world is waiting to see who the new president elect of the United States will be. Whoever takes the role history will be made. Either the first ethnic president or the eldest.
Over the past few months the presidential elections have dominated the front pages of all the papers I have read. The heated debates, the vice candidate selections and of course the constant touring and posing with the press. Whilst the USA expects the whole world to sit up and take notice I question myself “Do I really care?”
One paper today described the job as “the most important and powerful job on earth”, but is that really the case? Is America the superpower it once was? Whilst they and Russia played chess with the world during the cold war the likes of Japan have soared ahead in both financial and technological markets. Europe has become a much tighter community with only the UK playing isolation. I feel that America is not the country it once was or thinks it is. Don’t get me wrong, I love the USA and have been there on many occasions but they are not as powerful as they believe.
I am under no illusions that this job is of great importance and indeed power but the world will not change due to a new US president. As with any election time after time the promises turn to lies and the lies turn into problems for the very people that had the opportunity to vote.
McCain promises to return the USA to a country of wealth and opportunity, Obama says “We can change the world”
I don’t offer congratulations to the new president, I just offer my sympathy. Whoever wins will have inherited one of the biggest quagmires of failure on record.
I wish them well.
