by Ruthie Hochman

Created on: November 16, 2008

And the Winner Is...

"Never bet on a sure thing unless you can afford to lose." - Anonymous

By a landslide - so wholly unpredictable! Interestingly enough, the marginal outcome has decreased significantly, and as we approach the finish line on the eve of the hugest election campaign ever, the horses are running neck & neck for the finish line! Oh my!

Obama's grandmother passed away just one day before the day that history may or may not change the life of the grandson she helped shape and (in) form.

What will happen to the world tomorrow we are all anxiously waiting to see?! Why? Because everyone in the world gets it, perhaps more than we homegrown Americans' do, the importance and interconnectedness of it all.

How will the next presidency shape the future of America
and America's place in the geopolitical/global sphere over the next four years? Depending on who next sits in the White House, the answer is, very differently.

Are we truly in need of the inflated change that we have been promised by the contender in the blue corner? I project that should he win, the price we pay for voting him to the finish line will be so damn costly, we'll live long enough to regret our choice! Our ability to be manipulated and persuaded by empty promises is at an all time high - we are feeling insecure and vulnerable and the media has trained us sufficiently by pointing us in his direction! But we will feel the remorse for our choice, or lack thereof for years to come, i.e., for those of US who place our bet on him! But again, that is only if he should win, and I ain't betting on it!

While we are sprinting to the finish line on the one hand, perhaps it is slow and steady which will determine the fate of the race in the long run. Recently, I admitted to myself how truly liberal I am, (rolling my eyes), and yet for all of my free-spirited individualism, there is a very strong component in me that sees the other side of things. Foreign policy and global-interests are at stake! A world that is free for all cannot be attained until all are free, and in this dog-eat-dog climate we live in called the game of life - survival, free for all can take on different tones in different contexts and it does!

It is this side of things, as I see it, which is precisely the reason I will vote out of a true crisis of conscience, hence necessity, and not idealist tendencies I am harboring at the moment. I will be more practical, if even less principled - for the sake of the common and not so common good

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