What do you mean, he's not president?

[andygates]

Obama's world tour is going great guns: they took him seriously in the Middle East and in Berlin two hundred thousand people turned out pretty much to anoint his feet with oil.  Two hundred thousand for a candidate they can't even elect.  Seems that he's pitching this as the Next Leader Of The Free World Tour and the rest of us out here in the world, we pretty much like that. 

Let's face it after eight years of Captain Catastrophe, Barney the frakking Dinosaur would be an improvement but I'm not seeing simple relief here, I'm seeing desperate relief and a thread of actual, genuine, Kennedy-flavoured optimism.  Crikey.

I wonder how much impact this will have on his electability in the US (you know, where his voters are)? 

Comments

[teahisme.livejournal.com]

well this voter isn't in the US. I like him better than the other guy. I will say that before moving to the UK, I spoke with some African Americans about Obama. The one said something that made me very sad, "Even if a black mane gets elected he'll just be assassinated." It will be difficult. I think Hillary had a better shot of being president. However, I've never voted for a person that won.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing that every president is an assassination target for the crazies out there; he's got to understand that. There are too many Kennedy parallels being drawn to miss out the squicky one.

Do you get to do an absentee vote?