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I have spent a sizeable amount of time in the last few weeks + months following the US party elections.

I have been particularly tuned to the Democractic side of things, simply because I suspect Mr. Bush has dented the other side - republicans - so much that it's just for the democrats to turn up come November 2008.

As it turns, we may all be wrong, as the media seems to be making a good job of tilting the focus of attention from Iraq, to rather conventional platforms - economy, global warming, middle east etc.

Its clear right now that Super Dupa Tuesday will not finalise things for the Democrats.

On one side, you get the feeling that whatever side the dice falls, the democrats are out to make some history. If they win the white house, I feel the real significance of Today's US politics,
will? ( ok may) be the final seal to the death of identity[/U] as it affects being black, blue, latino and what have you..

Identity as clearly exemplified in sports, business, and the facets of living that people care the most about no longer evoke the sort of divisions that exits 50years ago.

I suspect the world, speaking broadly, no longer cares "what type" you are, rather we evaluate the question "how well can you do" against the odds at hand....

This is why, Fabio Capello - an Italian- is the current England football manager. .. This is why everyone "red skin, blacks, yellows" hails and max out the decibel meters when Emmanuel Adebayor scores for Arsenal. This is why Barrack Obama is doing well, agaist all the odds.

The question of gender equality is an entirely different thing in politics. Reason being, by definition, politics has only one endpoint - leadership, and I dare suggest, at the risk of being labelled sexist, that something about us, humans wraps up men to be specially crafted to do this "better" than the other sex.

I hasten to add that, this notion always change, when and if a woman takes charge at the top of any establishment. The constant surge of assertiveness, always lead to confrontations between the innate general feeling that it is for a man to lead, and the unending pursuit of the "I-can-do-it" spirit which the femalde head displays. Remember Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher ?


Whoever wins, the democratic tug of war, and I suspect it will be Hillary, the so called Obama movement will go on to redefine our world view, and the dent of "identity" that has plauged us all, will be a lot more smudged out.

Over.