records to be

The possibility of Mrs Clinton’s return to the White House will dominate the political debate more than anything. If she wins, she will break all sorts of records. She will be America’s first female president. She will be the first president married to a former president (who will in turn be America’s first male “first lady”). She will be the second Clinton in a row to take the keys to the White House from a Bush. If Mrs Clinton is the candidate elected in November, members of the Bush and Clinton families will have been president for 24 years on the trot.

(Excerpt from The Democrats’ Year, Economist.com, Dec 27th 2007, Washington, DC)

This is why the next US presidential election is so interesting. Although audacity of hope also falls on Barrack Obama, he is considered politically less experienced. But if he beat Clinton to be a Democratic candidate, who is likely to end up as the next US President, he will also break records as the first African American president. I’d like to see someone growing up in Indonesia, like Obama, to win, but I also like to see Clinton break all those records. No political reason, it’s just the records.