Poor John

Us elections are a true wellspring of exhilaration. Campaigners even more so. As a memeber of a rather prosaic folk, people who do not vote for the candidate but rather for the party or the programm I am always impressed by all the pandemonium the procedure is encircled by. The congregations, the finding of a candidate, all the dirt thrown. The bigoted senators and pregnant teenage daughters. The war heroes. The turncoats on both sides. The gender and race issues. This is drama. Exciting even if you do not have the slightest clue about politics, your own or other countries. Actually you stand a chance of being vice president without knowing crucial doctrines or where Georgia is or whether the cold war ended a while ago. You can either be too black or not black at all. Too smart (which seem to equal cold in the Christina Yang sense - sorry, I watch too much TV) or too dumb but some one representing aspects of the lives of almost every american there is - that's how media here tries to explain to us Mrs Palin and her certain appeal.
And now: total crisis, dead of the Wallstreet, economic failure at large. And a candidate who does a 360 and kinda hopes to get around a debate he seems to dread due to this crisis. Republicans who stab their candidate in the back, who don't get the idea of McCain trying to excel as some sort of national saviour and torpedo the poor guy and his pathetic little plan either out of pure baseness or pure dumbness. And no, I'm not one of those europeans who faint from exaltation at the mere thought of Obama. But since Mrs P. I'm sort of scared to death (or of death of) of the McCaine ticket. I do not necessarily see how Obama could ever meet all these high hopes. I'm afraid people will be dissapointed soon and maybe hate him which would not be a good thing obviously. Maybe he is too inexperienced. Maybe "Change" is not a programme. And maybe Mrs Clinton would have been an better pick. Who knows.
This is going to stay intersting. Just remember: your president is our business too. More than we openly would like to admit.