Talking to people in Europe for the past few weeks they seem to all rue the idea of another conservative of any stripe being the next American president. But they don^t know much about Ms. Clinton and aren^t tuned in to the penchant for Dem party voters for having at least one phantasy populist candidate in the primaries like Obama - the Howard Dean of this go-round- who gets a big groundswell of support and cash before it is time to test the mettle at the voting booths where reality suddenly sets in.
On the Continent the only Àmerican` issue really seems to be, "How is the US going to get out of Iraq."