The world’s most powerful nation on this planet has made the most significant decision in its history. The legacy of George W. Bush has been denied and Americans embrace the change promised by Barack Obama, America’s first African American president. The Democratic party swept through the election throwing out shameless defector Joe Lieberman who was their man for the VP job in 2000 and taking out all major fronts of the government; The presidency, the House of Representative and the Senate.
The win by Obama showed that the majority of Americans are tired of what happened in the past eight years, tired of being intimidated by the Republican government, tired of the senseless, wasteful, and pointless war of the last six years, and are ready to embrace a new direction.
While the Bush administration kept up their campaign on the war on terror, they forgot about what’s important to their people. They forgot how the people cope everyday, they ignored calls to pay attention to their own people, instead preferring to keep pressuring other nations of the world and judge each country how they see fit. Instead of fixing the economy, they sent thousands of fine Americans to their deaths on foreign land fighting for something that matters little to the future of America. All while their families are struggling to keep up with meeting basic daily needs. The US economy crumbled thanks to the Bush government’s ignorance on sound economic policies and sending funds to create machinations of war instead.
How this victory affects Indonesia remains to be seen but it is foolish to think that President Obama will pay special attention to this country more than his administration needs to just because his stepfather was an Indonesian and that he spent a few years of his childhood in Jakarta. No. That will never be the reason and it will be foolish for him to even consider those reasons for anything in his foreign policy. Should Indonesia receive any kind of attention is if circumstances arise that necessitated such attention. Should other politicians in the world pay special attention to countries where they spent sometime in?
President Obama’s first concerns are to repair his country’s economy, regain the public trust in the government and restore the reputation of the United States as a nation that drives progress, as they should be.
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