For Senator Barack Obama, who came to Europe once in the last four years, making a stop in London on his way to Russia, the response of many Europeans to his potential presidency has been gratifying - emotional, responsive, replete with the sense of hope he seeks to engender about a more flexible, less ideological America. 

European governments and politicians are not so sure. 

On Thursday evening in a glittering Berlin, Mr. Obama delivered a tone poem to American and European ideals and shared history. 

But he was vague on crucial issues of trade, defense and foreign policy that currently divide Washington from Europe and are likely to continue to do so even if he becomes president - issues ranging from Russia, Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan to new refueling tankers and chlorinated chickens, the focus of an 11-year European ban on American poultry imports. 

Obama, Vague On Issues, Pleases Crowd In Europe 

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America and the entire world is suffering from a lack of wise and courageous leadership.

The American voter is asked to go the polls and chose a person the party hacks has already chosen for us.

The media is cramming Obama down our throats and some of my liberal friends are pressuring me to vote for him. They are fawning over him in Germany mainly because the German media is portraying him as another Kennedy.

Remember when Senator Bentsen Said to Dan Quayle," Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy: I knew Jack Kennedy; Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy"? 

Obama is no Jack Kennedy. His banner slogan "Change" is beginning to look and smell like an old over-used dish rag and has become just as useless.

I tell my friends that I will not vote for the lesser of two evils again.  

If Obama gives specifics on how he will re-store the FDR constraints on the robber barons: if he will say he will withhold funds for Israel until the apartheid wall is taken down, if he says he will stand up to the powerful lobbies that have taken over our congress and government like AIPAC, Then I might consider the idea that he may bring about change, but I know it will not happen. 

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