Europe Swoons for Obama

"It has for a long time been clear that most Europeans support Barack Obama for president far more than they support John McCain. One obvious reason is that European countries in general are more leftist in political, economic and social attitudes than the U.S. Europeans seem more comfortable with taxes and big brother government than Americans do--and Obama seems to agree with that idea.

French intellectuals are telling American interviewers that the U.S. needs more welfare-state economics and higher taxes. Next they'll be telling us that we should stop going to church, stop believing in God, focus less on patriotism, and hand over all our guns. Come to think of it didn't Obama say that America's problem was that we clung to such things?"

-- by David Aikman --