Obama! Obama! Obama! Yay!!

I just wanted to share my joy with my readers - I went to bed not knowing what the results were, knowing that it was going to be close. When I woke up this morning, I listened to the radio in bed anxious for the results; the moment I heard that Obama had won, I punched the air in triumph, then jumped out of bed. Oh yes. Take that you Republicans.

Yes! 4 more years!

I then logged onto Facebook and here's my favourite Facebook update of them all from my dear friend Bryan in Singapore, "Call me evil, but I totally like the silence and the standing-around-dunno-what-the-f**k-to-do looks on the republicans at Romney HQ."

Ha! I have hunted down plenty of news reports depicting just that - talk about schadenfreude! Now it is amazing how American politics is almost as divisive as Singaporean politics - it's Obama vs Romney, Democrats vs Republics. In Singapore, you're either with the PAP or against the PAP. Whereas here in the UK, it's kinda hard to choose between the parties because they are good at some stuff but terrible at others. So we end up picking politicians on the basis of their individual merits rather than the party they belong to. But in America, you can be guaranteed that Republicans are just fucking evil, never mind single mothers, ethnic minorities, gays or immigrants, just have a look at some of these fucking evil Republicans have said on the issue of rape. And we're not just talking about some fucking idiot uneducated redneck from some village in the middle of nowhere - we're talking about representatives within the Republican party. What a fucking evil lot they are - and they are wondering why American women don't vote Republican? Duh.

Here's the irony - in the UK, I would place myself on the centre-right of the political spectrum. I like the Tory-Lib Dem coalition government and I distrust the Labour party because they are too close to the unions. However, when it comes to American politics, good grief, I am seen as a loony tree-hugging left wing liberal and I'm like, huh, if you think I'm liberal, wait till you see some of the real liberals we have here in Europe! I'm an atheist who wants my country's economy to be well run, I want a government who will get us out of this recession by focussing on the economy rather than dabbling in the toxic game of mixing religion and politics. We are getting there - things aren't perfect in the UK but we are mastering the art of secularism; but America is just such a mess. It just makes life so tough for anyone who isn't a Christian in America.

It's not so much that I am pro-Obama or pro-Democrats - rather I am just so totally repulsed, disgusted, offended and sickened by the Republicans, especially the Tea Party movement. I feel such revulsion and  abhorrence when I hear the kind of hateful rhetoric that Republicans come up with. This is why I am so happy to see them defeated in this election. Talk about schadenfreude. 

You know what the scary thing was? Romney came close - and there are two reasons why he didn't win. Oh, nothing to do with his fundamentalist religious views - but the first one was simply that his campaign wasn't as well run as Obama's (so that's just a bad PR team?) and that he lacked the charisma of Obama (he is an ugly, tired old man, unable to connect with the younger generation). Does that mean that if the Republicans had recruited better PR expects to run his campaign and had picked a more good looking, charismatic candidate (Sarah Palin or even Paul Ryan anyone?)  - they could've won. Crikey, what a thought. Just think about that for a second - he lost not because the Republican party is built of toxic, hateful religious bigotry, but because they ran a bad campaign and Romney had an image issue he couldn't overcome.

Anyway, the world is safe for another four years. For now, I shall not think about what will happen in four years, I will keep on celebrating Obama's victory Romey's defeat. 

Allow me to leave you with these thoughts (here's the source): ‎"Instead of bringing America together in unity and back to God, this conservative Christian Republican ended up dividing the country further, alienating allies, and leaving the country worse than he found it. And almost no Republican will admit this (at least in public). Instead, they use President Obama as the scapegoat for all they see wrong with the nation, while being in denial of their own responsibility in all this. No wonder conservative Christian values are under attack. No wonder less people are attending church services. No wonder there is such polarization and demonization in politics and society."