Well, I am from Germany, and my personal opinion is that Obama seems to be a better decision than McCain.

I never would try to tell someone to vote for Obama, but, maybe I may try to express my opinion.

First of all, I don't care or judge any skin colorization, so I see no problem in someone with a really good tan in the White House. the only people seeing a problem there are racists, and racism is very close to facism, which is extremely close to nationalism (nazi for short).

The "argument" that a "black president" is not a good president is just like a argument by a nazi. Why judging about such thing? Does the region were some ancients come from, really make someone better or worse? I think: no.

The Republicans tried to get Obama into combination with Osama. Because of his name. Well... this seems a very thing argument for me. Instead of focussing on political relevant things they hardly tried to make Obama look worse. Would I like to have a gouverment facing not the real problems, but trying to distract from real neccessary political things? What would the politic the next 4 years look like? "Hey we have about 25% people without work!" .. "yeah, but look at this country, called ***.. they have 30% people without work, and more poverty... so we are better."

Obama knows how to use media... he is charismatic, I would say.

But the most Important thing instead of vote for someone IF you are voting, it is, in my opinion, more important TO VOTE. This is the most important weapon for a person in a country: his voice.

by the way: I thing every kind of political system could work or fail. It is just a question of the people or person who holds the power in a system.