CNN) -- Europe's expectations of a Barack Obama presidency are vibrant, vast and probably incapable of fulfillment by any president, let alone one who will come to office in the middle of a worldwide economic crisis and with huge, unfinished business in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Riiight.
As Jean-Francois Revel wrote -- anti-Americanism is the string that binds Europe together.
Oh, the Socialist Europeans...they don’t even like themselves and their leaders...they have to look elsewhere for love.