>>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?".
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>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.

Exactly the source of my amazement. Such a push in the direction of wishful thinking... I mean, I'd take Obama any day over of a dozen of McCains, but that still doesn't mean I like the guy, it only means that I think the other guy is much worse. At least, this time the Dems machinery seems to know what it's doing, and it seems like they have found their spine, aren't in perpetual reaction/pushback mode, and even have some agenda. That's something - doesn't really mean we'll like it. I'm expecting to see the corporations take over more of the power over everybody's lives, more globalization (by other means, but with the same effect), and the definition of honest politician affirmed for the hundredth time as "once sold, stays sold, keeps the bargain and doesn't resell".