Uniter Comments January 29, 2009

"A Canada you can believe in"

The Uniter is the official student newspaper of the University of Winnipeg and is published by Mouseland Press.

On the eve of an inauguration

The air in the District is thick with anticipation, everybody breathing heavy energy and on the brink of hugging, kissing, dancing. We're all standing, stomping our feet in the cold, for another few hours until the President-elect will set us in motion towards our new existence. An existence where racial barriers have been shattered and where the screwtop neoliberal gears of the last eight years have at least grinded enough to slow down for a while. An existence where politics as once again shifted from a topdown powergrab to an honest discussion amongst the electorate, the people's government, the real voice of a nation and a planet that is hurting and confused.

All the hope is there, the excitement is there, now we're just waiting for it happen. The change. Even though we know that this far from an instant fix and that there are certain dirty aspects of American policy, particularly foreign policy, that will remain, at least we have a starting point.

We welcome a new agenda from an articulate, intelligent, unprecedented new leader who has reminded us repeatedly over the last few days that he is, indeed, just one man and that what we have been told is possible is only so with the sacrifice and the dedication of a population, not only an administration. It's Politics 2.0 and it's gone wiki. We're all involved and tomorrow it begins for real.

From Washington, DC.