I went to bed yesterday praying that Kerry would win, but still couldn't shake the foreboding that the worst imaginable thing would happen.

It did. George W. Bush is still President of the United States of America.

Four more years. Four more years in which at least one more Arab country will most likely be utterly destroyed and its people driven to hate the West. Four more years of War. Four more years of legislature that'll set social evolution back at least a hundred years. Four more years in which a niece or nephew of mine could be born into this world, this very world that's already been endangered too long by a stupid, gung-ho, unscrupulous cowboy and his cronies with their hands on the most powerful nation's weapons and resources.

Will we see 2008?

Or, perhaps more acurately, will all of us?

That's a definite no.

How many more wars will we let him begin, how many more people kill, before he is turned out into the street? The people of the US had their chance -- a chance the rest of the world has been denied, and he is still President. Even if there was cheating involved in the election -- still about half of the US population voted for George W. Bush. They actually voted for him.

It is inconceivable. I still cannot believe it.

I fear the future.

mareen already mentioned the Spiegel's interview with an "America specialist", Ernst-Otto Czempiel, and ( I definitely liked his bluntness. )