"Well, my fellow American expats, we had a good run. Almost a whole nine months of the rest of the world thinking we were the cool kid in the cafeteria, as opposed to the inbred, pock-cheeked bully who was likely to shoot them with an air rifle behind the gym if they didn't hand over their potato chips. We were Corey Haim in the 1986 film Lucas, the former high school pariah who is suddenly lifted on to the shoulders of the world and carried through the campus.
Admittedly, maybe some hopes about The New America, AM (Anno Messiah), were a little high. But still, one might have hoped for coverage of post-Bush America a little less shaming than YouTube clips of town hall meetings filled with people whose parents probably had the same surname before they got married, insisting that Obama has "Nazi policies", the Nazis being well-known for their interest in expanded healthcare."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/aug/26/american-obama-republicans-hadley-freemanFunny column from an American expat living in London. Worth a read just for her one line analysis of Silvio Berlesconi.