The world needs to come down to reality and experience the cold turkey of American electoral politics.
Despite the lofty dreams ringing in campaign ears this remains the 50-50 nation.
American elections tend to be decided by a whisker-thin majority in the swing county of one swing state.
Obama may be a global citizen but to voters in West Virginia or parts of Ohio that sounds as pretentious as a double decaf Venti latte.
But before the German politician who wrote that Obama was a cross between John F Kennedy and Martin Luther King gets too sniffy about those hillbillies in America, just remember this:
Germany has a minority of four million Turks, but has elected only a handful of ethnic Turks to the Bundestag.
An ethnic Pakistani Prime Minister taking up residence at Number 10 Downing Street is even less likely than England winning the World Cup.
In Beijing, the overt racism shown to African students brought over under the bygone days of international Communism is truly shocking.
Even if America is not ready to elect a black president, the rest of the world has no right to point the finger.
And there is always the possibility that Obama failed not because he was black, not because he was too global, but simply because his vision of America's future did not add up.
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