And the Results are in! 4 am Tunisian time : )

Being feeling very odd this past week or so. Always being super into politics and having considered taking the politician route myself, I was extremely homesick (?) by not being in the US for an election that will most likely be the most important of my lifetime. Homesick is probably not the right word, but I was actually kinda depressed- really missed the high of elections and knowing how big this high must have been for the US. Oh well, starting to get over it.
And I have to admit, when I push aside my jealousies of everyone that was there and participated and I put aside my own feelings of self pity (yes, i realize how ridiculous it is), it was also pretty fucking cool being an American in a foreign, particularly a Muslim, country for this election. Wallah, EVERYONE here was SOO into this election and the interest does not cease to amaze me. Taxi drivers for a week before the election asking me what I thought was going to happen and everyday since the election. People congratulating me (as if i did anything?!) 'mabrouk, mabrouk Obama' for something that my country did. Congratulating me for coming from a country that just inspired the world and congratulating me for our country finally starting to redeem the scalding image we have left in the world because of our foibles of the last 8 years.
Everyone here cannot believe that Obama isn't starting now. People say 'but he needs to fix the world NOW'. And yes, not just 'he needs to fix the US', but i can quote 3 people who have said world (well they actually said monde mais ca va). I don't think Obama really realized he was running for president of the WORLD. Slight exagerration, yes. But, the poor guy does have some very high expectations although I think the fact that he WON and has inspired so many people will give him some time. Well, congrats to all my friends who have been volunteering their little democratic butts off- YOU guys did it. Yeah, everyone that voted sure helped too, but without all those volunteers out there registering people, calling people, frankly pissing many people off too, the results could have been very very different.
My god. If the results had been different, I would have to be constantly explaining how the hell the American people could THINK about electing a VP who had a 20 min convo with a Canadian disc jockey pretending to be Sarkozy (sounds NOTHING like him for pete's sake) who claimed that his advisor for American culture was Johnny Hallyday! Ah, that would have been a nightmare. (for those that don't know what i'm talking about, the youtube recording of the convo was ABSOLUTELY appalling to anyone francophone and for very good reason)
Well, in any case, that little rant was just to say Congrats to the United States from what appears to be everyone in Tunisia.. myself certainly included.