I loved this line from the article:
Exit polls wrongly indicated that Mr Veltroni, who campaigned with a programme of “change and hope” as “Italy’s Barack Obama”, has caught up and Left and Right were neck and neck, raising the prospect of deadlock.
I can’t wait to see hope and change blown out of the water here as well - not that I am, by any stretch of the imagination, a McCain supporter. I just get tired of hearing some permutation of hope is on the way every 4 years. Hope is already here. It has been here since 1776. We don’t need these self-appointed false prophets and messiahs.
Well said.