Presidential Election 2008: United States of America to the World

A month from now, the world will be all eyes to the democratic process called election in the great bastion of democracy, the land of butter and honey, the land of the free and privileged, the United States of America.

This would be the most awaited event in the world before the year ends. Questions and anticipation are forming. Who would be the next seating chief executive in the oval office of the White House? Is there a change of foreign policy? What would be the course of international relations?

Whether or not a republican or a democrat president would succeed the Bush Administration? The anticipation is overwhelming on how the next American President give justice to famous words spoken by Abraham Lincoln, “Democracy, the government of the people, by the people and for the people.

Some people would say that the forthcoming election is the answer to the unstable US economy. Somehow, I’m hoping that at the least, it will eventually solve the problem.

The election can also be a change of personality alone not of anything else. That, in the guise of the new administration, same foreign and international policy remains. New Paradigm of Unilateralism, in short another selfish world regime reigns.

If we to assess the two presidential contender, Senators John McCain and Barak Obama. I find the latter almost one step-ahead to victory. His flat form of governance is reliable and very much timely. To quote Senator Obama in one of his speaking engagement, he said “All we do now be done in celebration for change, for the better. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change we’ve been waiting for.”