Landslide election in Australia -- Howard ousted

Not only did Prime Minister John Howard's party lose the election last night, and not only will there be a new Australian chief executive, but Howard may even lose his seat in parliament:

Mr Howard, who had been bidding for a fifth term inoffice, conceded the national election and accepted it was "verylikely" he would also be defeated in his Bennelong constituency.

If unseated, the 68-year-old would be only the second prime minister in Australia's history to suffer such a fate.

If you recall, Howard was the one who said earlier this year that a victory for Barack Obama and the Democrats in 2008 would be a victory for al Qaeda:

"If I were running al Qaeda in Iraq, I would put a circle around March2008, and pray, as many times as possible, for a victory not only forObama, but also for the Democrats," Howard said, speaking on "Sunday,"a TV show on Australia's Nine Network.

Hopefully this marks the beginning of the end of right-wing ethnic fear-mongering in Australia.  They still have a long way to go though.