Barack Obama is the Democratic candidate for the Presidency of teh United States of America.

What a way to resurect a blog, with those words.

A black guy, with an Arab name, with only one year in Senate, has a real, real chance, of leading a nation where only forty years ago, another black man was shot just for speaking for peace.

And what does that mean for Latin America?

More importantly, what does it mean for Venezuela?

This is all, of course assuming he wins. Early polls seem to indicate that, and I believe reasonable logic also tells us that. But John McCain was elected the Republican candidate three  months ago, and November is still a very long five months ahead. So it’s anything but locked.

But let’s just assume.

First off, historically, Democrat governments in the U.S. have been kinder on Latin America than Republican ones. Normally, Latin American countries tend to be on the left side of the political spectrum, so conservatives are inevitably going to look down. It doesn’t help right now that there’s ony one right wing governmet down here, which is Colombia, and three radical lefties: Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela, who openly criticize Bush’s government. So McCain winning would be more of the same business for us.

Secondly, McCain is an ass.

Third, Obama is such a radical change from everything. He’s been almost legendary now in saying that he would meet with whom are considered traditionally enemies of the U.S. Diplomacy above all. Not this “shoot first, ask questions later” crap.

Fourth and final, and this goes for the whole world: we will view the U.S. differently than we do now. We would be saying “Wow… a black man… a black… presidet…” U.S.A. has been traditionally seen as still being a racist society; to have Obama as president should change that.

Plus, McCain is an ass.

He should have stayed a Congressman.