Hail Obama!

"Change has come to America" - President Barack Obama.

Congratulations to the newly elected American President Barack Hussein Obama. So long and goodbye, George Bush. While Bush will go down in history as the worst American President, Obama will be remembered as the first Black (he's actually half-White too) to enter White House.

Coming home to Malaysia, if there is one thing that our local politicians could learn from the US Presidential election is that we should immediately close rank and work together for our country after the election is over.

I commend John McCain's congratulatory message to Obama, when he said "we must work together to get this country moving again". But here in Malaysia, what happened was totally the extreme opposite. Right after the 8 March general election, our famous opposition leader was already began planning to topple the elected BN government through undemocratic means - defections from ruling party MPs. Something which is totally unprecedented in any part of the Western democratic world.

Back to America. Though I have full admiration and hope for Obama as the new American President, but knowing how influential the American Israeli lobbyist are, e.g. AIPAC and knowing that all President candidates have to make a pro-Israel stance during election campaign, I doubt that he can bring much change into the Middle East, especially concerning the long neverending conflict between Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. Not forgetting the situation in Iraq and Afghanistan too.

However, if there is one wish for Obama, I'd like to see him making an official visit to Malaysia. From Kennedy to Bush, I think none of all the former American presidents have ever visited Malaysia, or probably even know where the hell Malaysia is. :)