We Europeans - with no vote - watch askance this momentous US election because it is so obvious that only a comparatively young, dynamic, highly intelligent, quick to learn internationally minded president has any chance at all of getting America off the disastrous (for us & the world) Bushian track of confrontation and onto the track of cooperation.

That's utterly essential not only to resolve America's wars and financial meltdown, but also to tackle the vast challenges of global warming, nuclear proliferation, overpopulation, epidemics, etc. etc. - existential threats to humanity.

And our principal fear is that RACE and political genius dirty trickster ROVE are what stand in the way of Barack Obama.

But we have little confidence in American voters who elected so obviously unsuitable a candidate as G W Bush (with a little help from the Supreme Court) in 2000 - and then re-elected him again in 2004 although by then his financial and war policies were already proving disasrous.

Of course a lifelong Republican beyond three score and ten who voted for that calamitous Iraq war can't possibly bring about real change to get on that cooperation track! How absurd even to think so!

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This is beyond left & right, Rep or Dem, Lab or Con - so this consultancy is working full time to try to help Obama. Whatever his faults he may indeed be able to make a real change. McCain and Madame Palin can't. And - given McCain's age and health record - imagine Mme Palin deciding our lives and those of our children! Actuarially it seems she has a 1 in 7 chance of becoming president in the next 4 years. And McCain has a far greater chance of falling ill on the job or simply being physically overwhelmed!