Thursday, November 04, 2004

Bleak Morning in Blacksburg

America elected Bush to lead for four more years. For all the troubles Kerry and Bush spent bashing each other in the past months, it is amazing that Kerry conceded after possibly realizing that the trend of election results is favorable to the incumbent. You can't expect such a thing in the Philippines. There, I hear people say, "no candidate in the Philippines loses, they are only cheated." Ergo, all the elected officials are cheats? I would like to believe otherwise, but ...

I hope that the future of my own country is not as bleak as today's morning in Blacksburg.

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