History is Made — Obama Elected President
| 11/4/2008 | Posted by Patti under General |
I just watched a class act take place. Senator John McCain completed one of the classiest concession speeches I’ve ever seen. He conceeded the election to Senator, now President elect, Barack Obama. I don’t normally care about an American election (in case you are new around here, I’m Canadian) and as intrigued as I was by this one, I never truly thought that this would happen.
The American people have elected a black person to their highest office. I never thought I’d live to see it. I just learned that for the first time in American history seventeen woman have been elected to their Senate. Here I thought 30 women in our House of Commons was just a good start. I guess progress has different measures.
I’m sure there will be a lot of commentary and analysis of what this win will mean for the USA and its place in the world. I’ll catch up to it later, I’m heading for bed.
I just wanted to point out that though there are “only” 17 women in the senate there are only 100 senators or 17% of senators are women. Our House of Representatives also has 17% or 74 of 435 occupied by women including speaker of the house Pelosi.
According to Wiki there are 308 members of the House of Commons, so that would be a little less than 10% if there are 30 women.
I thought perhaps a little more information would be helpful or at least inform you of the error in the condescending attitude implied by your statement “I guess progress has different measures.”
Your informed perspective is interesting. Just to give you a bit more perspective, if I wanted to be condescending, I wouldn’t imply it. There would be a complete post dedicated to making it abundantly clear rather than an add on comment to a post on a much more important subject. Cheers!