Who will be the President of US?

Due to the high temperatures and the master thesis, we are 'obliged' to work in the WG and escape from there to the city center on saturdays or sundays. Our only fun in the house apart from cooking and watching movies in our laptops is also our television which despite having 200 channels, offers us only CNN International (english), TV5 (french) and RAI 1 (italian). So in order for all of us to listen to a common language and keep up with the news, we all watch CNN. But recently, apart from China earthquake and Myanmar relief news, there is a lot of news on the American Presidential elections. For me it is very interesting to watch them (when they are not recycled) because the US has a different and complex electing system. There should be two candidates, one from the Republican and the other from the Democrat party competing for the presidential elections which are due to November 4, 2008. The candidate for the Republicans is John McCain while the candidate for the Democrats is 'almost' Barack Obama after achieving 2,025 delegates from the primary elections which is an election process at state or local level during which voters do not vote directly for the candidate but for the delegates to each party's national convention. Clinton who was enjoying popular vote but lost in the primaries is preparing now to exit the election campaign. Obama will be officially candidate in August in the Democratic national convention while McCain in September in Republican national convention.

What is really striking for me is the fact that when some of Clinton's supporters are asked if they are going to vote for Obama now that Clinton lost most of them say 'no' because either from the fact that Obama is black or because Clinton did not win. Both of these reasons are not really logical to me. In the end they are both Democrats and have the same visions, promises and projects once one would become a president; they are not republicans and for sure they would behave differently from Bush regarding Iraq. Secondly, the fact that Obama is black does not really stop him from being a good president governing for the people of US. In the end, he was successful enough to finish good universities such as Columbia and Harward and successful enough to have a good family. Normally, i would not expect that critizicms such as 'he is black' and 'she is a woman' would be possible in US because even though i would not like to generalize, US gives the idea of the 'free land where all your dreams come true and diversity is not a problem'; in fact it is the best tool Americans are successfully using to be so developed.

Now that there is a possibility that Democrat supporters may vote for McCain, Clinton stopped her campaign and started to support Obama by sending a message to the people that even though she didn't win, it is better to have a democrat rather than a republican in the White House. McCain on the other side is a former Naval aviator who has fought in the Vietnam war and got hardly rescued after being injured and tortured. For many people, he is a hero and personally i don't have any preference on Democrats or Republicans but when i heard him in the news saying that 'we will not surrender in Iraq' i got really scared. Even though middle and high classes don't like Democrats because of putting high taxes on them, i don't think they will like the fact of paying for a never ending war in Iraq once they choose McCain as president. If this happens, i hope that McCain will not have nostalgy for the Vietnam war and be well-known for the Second Vietnam War. Lets see in November!