By Paddy
I will never forget the questions I faced when I went to Ireland in the spring of '03. Every, and I mean every person I got into a conversation with wanted to know what the hell was up with "Your President". I can imagine they are very much looking forward to a new one.
(CNN) -- When Barack Obama comes to London, I am certain that 50,000 people will turn out to cheer him on,'' a British executive assured me when I visited the British capital recently.
"Americans?'' I asked.
"No, not Americans,'' he responded. "English people. You see, we want change, too.''
Spend a few days in western Europe talking about American politics and you discover that you are in deepest Obamaland. Not much different from Berkeley, California, or the South Side of Chicago.
As a woman put it to me in Paris: "We want America back.''
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