Rspaight wrote:This election is like Abe Simpson vs. Lyle Lanley.
As someone who has only looked at this race from one ocean away, and one who has completely missed Obama's speech in Berlin (I have a transcript though), what is that you criticicze about the Democratic candidate?
Judging from the transcipt of his Berlin speech, he stands for:
1. global reduction of nuclear weapons
2. reduction of carbon emission
3. rejection of torture
I have no idea how much of this idealism and how much is honest conviction, but that sounds more promising than what I have heard from any US president since....Carter? Kennedy? He exceeds both.
Right now, he is probably the most popular US candidate ever in Germany. And in France. Which might be a problem for him.