Concession and Victory Speeches

I wasn't very willing to stay up too late last night to listen to Senator McCain's concession speech and President Obama's victory speech. So, I listened to it just now.

Senator McCain has a lot of class, despite his 'loss' to President Obama. That man spoke eloquently in his concession speech.

President Obama made this statement: "...This victory alone is not the change we seek, it is only the chance for us to make that change...we cannot have a thriving Wall Street while Main Street suffers. In this country, we rise and fall as one nation, as One People. Let's resist on falling back to the same partisanship, pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long....While the Democratic party has won a great victory tonight, we do so with a measure of humility, and determination to heal the vice that held back our progress."

Just looking at the way his political campaign have strategically placed this man to be the 44th President of USA: his race, his age and supposed "inexperience", stopped accepting public funding etc. You can't help but feel that Change is indeed possible. It's kinda weird that the most powerful country that has made so many progress had its first Black President last night, whereas in many less-developed countries, they've already had women or other races as their presidents.

How can you not be moved with a man who is what America is supposed to be, but unfortunately, is not? He reminds us that Change starts really from us, no matter how insignificant we may think of ourselves to be, a reminder of progress built on hope and hopefully, a reality, in the months and the next 4 years to come.

I've developed an interest for politics because I was always amazed at a political team or party's united (or supposedly united) strength to fight for something (whether we agree or disagree with what they believe in). This whole campaign was a reminder of that again. It's powerful, and hopefully President Obama along with the White House will materialize that progress and that change for a better place for people.

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In other news, the price to pay for "breaking" the law is $30. When I saw that ticket, my first thought was was what Mark and Gav asked me on seperate occasions: you don't get in trouble for parking there? All I could do was smile and drive on.