Against all odds, 47-year-old first-term senator Barack Obama from Illinois has won the Presidency and will be the 44th President of the United States. History has been made, be it for better or worse.

The heavens here broke, as I read of McCain conceding to Obama while having my lunch at a coffee shop along South Bridge Road. Superstitious Chinese would have wondered if that was tears of joy, or weeping in sadness.

Whatever the future portends, let’s hope President-Elect Obama will have the courage and wisdom to do what is right for the U.S, and reverse some of the obvious idiotic policies of the George W. Bush AdministrationRegime. It is certain that with the impending global recession, any more foul ups in the US isn’t going to be any good for the rest of the world.

Regardless of my apprehension and disagreement with Obama’s liberal stand on homosexual civil unions, I hope I can really look forward to some change which can be believed in.

See also Senator McCain’s concession speech on Youtube. Applaud the man for his graciousness in the face of his defeat, a defeat that is no fault of his own, but that of George ‘Warmonger’ Bush.