yay for gossip girl actors and obama!

It has been so interesting for me to watch the political situation in the US from abroad. While I will definitely be voting for Obama along with many other Americans come Nov. 4, it seems that no one is more excited for Bush to leave and for Obama to take over than the French. They hate Bush. Actually, they detest Bush and his policies and the Iraq war. There's a movie coming out called "W" about the life of George W. and advertisements were all over the Paris metro for it.

While the French hate Bush, they loveeee Obama. When his lead drastically increased this weekend, I woke up on Monday to pictures of Obama all over the Paris newspapers. I posted a few articles about the issue below. It just seems like politics is so much more intense and "in your face" here than it is in America. You see the French president, Nicholas Sarkozy on TV almost every night. In America, it seems like the media has just ignored Bush for the past few years, instead focusing on much more important topics, like college football and the weather.

-The good American and Monsieur Obama
-Barack Obama, the French American idol