We would like him (especially if it is our favorite Barack Obama) to: stop the war in Iraq, divert funding from the military industrial complex and use it to improve the lives of the poor, introduce national health insurance, sit down with Putin and discuss how best to bring peace to the world, persuade China and India to restrict dangerous gas emissions, get rid of the Taliban in Afghanistan, make a deal with Iran, sign the Kyoto Protocol, catch Osama bin Laden and, finally, bring peace to the Israel-Palestine conflict. Of course, all of this should be accomplished in close collaboration with European governments -- and all in the first year, possibly in the first days of his presidency.
-- as quoted in Speigel Online, November 5, 2008
Though clearly meant as a warning to fellow Europeans to tone down their Obama Derangement Syndrome, one is amazed at the prevalence of the idea that President Obama can heal the world's ills. And very quickly, to boot.
