He is NOT black!!

"He is not black...He is an Afro-Asian-European-Latin...that's an all-American President."

- Andrew Young on The Colbert Report Nov 5, 2008

At 11:00 pm EST last nigh, Wolf Blitzer announced, based on CNN's projection, the new President of America - Barack Obama. Almost instantly led by all major media channels, the entire country was deluged with a jubilation of celebrations for the first black President of the United States. While NY Times can't wait to extol the fall of "racial barrier", all these to me, sadly, is exactly the self-evidence of an underlying actuality - men are still judged by the color of their skin in this country.

McCain, Unpresidential But Genuine

McCain made his most recent SNL appearance right before the presidential deadline. I almost felt sorry that I didn't bother to spend some time trying to know more about this guy until very late of the campaign - well, not that it would have make any differences, after all I can't vote anyway; plus, I think in terms of campaign policies, Obama has much better solutions to many key issue.

Just last night, I was watching CNN's documentary for both candidates, and the republican veteran stroke me to be somehow more real, lively, and empathetic. Going through his life story on the screen, I realized that this guy has quite some admirable human qualities that have been catastrophically downplayed by his campaign. He is brave, patriotic, passionate, faithful, unyielding, and ingenuous. I am somehow convinced that politics is more like a dream instead of profession to him, which could be precisely the reason that he can't win this campaign. No matter how the election turns out to be, I wish him well.