i was already awake as early as 7AM today to follow the developments of the US presidential elections on CNN.  even though the outcome doesn’t concern me directly, the event has the whole world turned it’s eyes on america.  and for one significant reason:  history.  whether it be electing the first african-american president or the first female vice-president, there’s no doubt that whatever happens after the dust settles, the world will be forever changed and today was the first step towards that change.

 

i’m an avid barack obama supporter.  and to see him win makes a statement so loud that the whole world would have to take heed and recognize.  and that statement is “anything is possible.”  with the whole world experiencing a financial meltdown, nations of the world turn to the last superpower on earth, anxiously waiting for their citizens to heed the battlecry for change, or use the same old policies that drove the world’s finances on it’s knees.  don’t get me wrong, i have the utmost respect for john mccain and what he has done to serve his country.  but it’s time to inject young, fresh blood into mainstream politics.  i mean, if i were an american citizen, i’d rather have someone in the white house like obama even though he’s inexperienced, but has the knowledge, guts, and principles to make very drastic positive changes rather than someone like mccain who is indeed experienced, but is inept in getting out of george w. bush’s shadow and his economic policies.

 

although there is one factor in this US election that directly affects the philippines.  and that’s both candidates’ stand in outsourcing or off-shoring of businesses.  mccain, like george w. bush, favors outsourcing to help improve businesses and companies make profit and thus drive wall street upward, and help improve the economy.  obama on the other hand wants to invest in creating more jobs inside the US, thus opposes the thought of american jobs being outsourced.  yet even with that particular policy, i still support obama.  i know it’ll mean declining jobs in the call center industry in the philippines, but it’ll pose a challenge to our own government of not relying on these american companies to create jobs for us but to find ways of improving our own businesses to create more jobs for us filipinos.  it’s always at the back of my mind that the call center industry won’t last.  and as a person, i always want to be proven wrong.  with obama’s win, maybe it’ll be the start of less investments in the call center industry, who knows?  but again, i’d rather be proven wrong because at the onset, i was already proven right.

 

a new era in the history of the world unfolds.  it’s a far cry from where we were a century ago.  with the anything is possible statement emphatically made due to the cry for change, only history itself will judge the actions that have happened here in this day and age.  and as tomorrow beckons, the whole world will be marching as one to both good and bad things to come.

 

on a side note, i wish our politicians here would emulate both candidates in the US in terms of attitude and sticking to the issues.  but i guess that’ll be wishful thinking since all local politicians only have their own gains in mind.  but that’s another story.  one i would gladly spend a day talking about and getting their ire about it.