I didn’t watch Tuesday nights election coverage. There was something inside me that just couldn’t tolerate another “historic night.”

Living in the United States it has always amused me to see how desperate the American media are to make themselves a part of history. They don’t seem to realise that everything they do is (in some way) is a part of history, even if it’s reporting Ms. Jones cat stuck up a tree for the third time this week.

An overblown sense of drama might explain it as might the constant ratings war but really it all comes down to a basic insecurity in the psyche of the “movers and shakers” which is not shared by the common citizen.

That insecurity is that the United States of America has a history that runs from the present day……… All the way back to last Thursday!

The United States has achieved many incredible things in its time but just because someone puts the milk in the fridge the world will not be immediately applauding and licking its collective pencil to scribe another chapter in the ever popular history of world events.

Hearing “One small step” is a major historic event for the world, against which Dan the Dick becoming W.W.E. Intercontinental champion in a fixed competition pales into insignificance.

Barack H. Obama being elected President will probably be regarded as interesting enough to merit a marker in world history but how much is written will depend on what is achieved (or not) during his time in office. The fact that the United States elected a new president for the 44th time in its history in itself is really unremarkable (despite race) because it has already been done 43 times previously.

Actually living in this country allows a different perspective from one gained from living abroad. You have to wonder if when world events unfold other paths might have been taken had the American participants not been so worried about their place in the hallowed halls of history as defined by the American media