>>I see he drew a crowd in Berlin today ;-)
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>>http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-080724-obama-berlin-photogallery,0,5721546.photogallery
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>>This is why the media follow him around.
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>It's amazing how much more do Europeans expect from him than his own voters. I'm even hearing encouraging voices from home, "when Obama gets elected, it's gonna turn for the better...". Well if Holbrooke will be his foreign affairs anything, I'm not holding my breath for five jiffies. The guy is on NPR for two days in a row, spitting I don't know what language, but my wife had about doubled the number of her outbursts... "is that a politician? The moron... {depletives omitted}... don't they have anyone who has something to say?".

What do they base their opinion on? Has Obama given them more substance and specifics than he has us? What exactly do they want to see 'turn for the better...' I'm afraid, if this election is anything like past elections, what is declared before the election and what is actually practiced after are diffent things.