A new US President.

20.1.2009.

In a matter of hours the new Black President of the USA will be inaugerated. In fact it would mean a quantum leap in the progression of the Greatest Nation of the Modern Era in seeing a member of the race who were slaves just slightly more than 130 years ago move into the twice burned down and aptly named White House. I eat humble pie for predicting that another Clinton would win the US Presidential race. I couldn't be right in my prediction because I was going against a movement, not a straightforward national election.

The huge number of first time voters who were youthful and college educated put paid to the theory that racial sentiments and history would dictate events. The battle cry was "Change". No one could go against that. 

After the Gaza slaughter in front of a 21st century world of instant news and instant everything. Except in doing the decent thing in stopping an inhumane slaughter of a people by another that claims to have been wronged in WWII. We should wait and see if the Black President would walk the talk.

From early utterances reported from him, including "Israel is sacrosanct", I have my doubts. So, while the rest of the world watch the $200 m festivities in Washington, the Gazans mourn their $2 billion loss in property and 1,400 women and children and other lives snuffed by the US backed Jewish troops. 

The filthy rich Arabs are still in their endless meetings, pledging $2billion in reconstruction aid but unable to even agree on the m.o. and that after comfortably watching the slaughter across their borders from their air conditioned palaces while slumped on their comfortable divans with their water pipes fingering their prayer beads and doing absolutely nothing until the smoke cleared from the raped grounds of Gaza. 

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