Europe is in love with Obama
No matter who I spoke with or met, they all asked about Obama. One woman in Spain said to me, “America is number one. This is my country, but what America does is always first. What do you think about Obama?” I asked her later in the conversation what year Franco had died. She didn’t know. But she really loved Obama.
In a shop window of an antique store that makes Portuguese tiles, there were twenty little tiles all with “YES WE CAN” written on them.
At a trendy, hip clothes store, a large sign appeared in the window, in Portuguese that basically translates as “FUCK THE CRISIS, IF OBAMA CAN WIN, ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE.”