a year ago

So Obama has won the US Presidential Elections. But can he live up to his promises?
It is interesting that we are convinced that we, Americans or not, are on the threshold of a historic turning point with Obama's victory. For once, history isn't static; we already know that we are on some sort of watershed. How would we see this day four or eight years from now? How would historians look back on this period ten, twenty, fifty years from now?

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Exactly a year ago, I woke up in the morning a freed man. Nothing special, nothing fantastic, really, but a date still worth remembering - 4 Nov '07 being my ORD day. For various reasons 2007 has been a rather bad year, i remember saying somewhere before. Certainly life has changed much, for the better, I hope.
2008, one year on.

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