ferret1094 on 23 July 2008
A lot of people have got very over-excited by Obama. They're treating him like the second coming. Assuming he does get elected, there are going to be a lot of very disappointed and disillusioned people. No politician can live up to the role some people have set for him and his views are a long way from what people seem to think. I appreciate US politics is very different, but by UK standards he's an authoritarian conservative - his support for ID cards and the death penalty would put him firmly on the right here.
