[guorbatschow]

what obama is trying to do is to make the impression that having him as a president would make a huge difference to what would have been if mccain got elected.

fact is, however, that in major democratic countries, big parties always have similar views on how things have to be done. the way i see it, the constant political arguments are mostly over trivial aspects to carry out a power struggle. in election times, they try to differentiate themselves from eachother to polarize the voters.

obama just represents the democrats. there is no way he can just act out of line and suddenly trigger some "change". without help of those powerful friends who endorsed him, where would he be today?