PASCUA MEJIA wrote: "But the fact is that never ever humankind has had as many expectations in peace and in a "better world construction" than now..." Oh, really? I think that you are living in your private world which started its existence only a few years ago. I may be too harsh on you, sorry. By my problem is that somehow people take their current local events and magnify their significance to the scale of the Universe. Like Americans did with the 9/11 event by trying to represent it a something which has Biblical importance in the history of humanity. They started to misinterpret Nostradamus writing. Or even looking about it in the Bible. I simply call it arrogance and ignorance. So, similar -- with Obama. He may have some significance for the United States and some other Western countries. Today. But, that is. For the rest of the humanity, Obama is just another American President. Considering the facts which "humankind never ever has had...", I think the Communist revolution in Russia in 1917 had much more to bring in the expectations of a "better world constriction". Or say, the end of WW2 -- this is the time when people really had good expectations on the years to come. Or, how about collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of Cold War? If people ignored this event or had some big expectations for the better world? And I only took three events in the last century. But, how many of them the humankind had in its history? Finally, talking about Obama as "never ever..." before. He is not even original. He is just following footprints of the Soviet leader M.Gorbachev. Exactly step-by-step... Don't believe it? Then, guess whom this is applied to? a) He arrived at the time when the country collected a number of almost unsolvable problems b) ... and the world was in crisis. c) He rapidly appeared on the political horizon like a morning star and represents a new wave of world politicians d) He is young, very charismatic, and excellent speaker e) He came as an agent of hope and change. f) He came on the basis of the very liberal political platform and promise of radical reforms. g) His message is simple and easy to understood by everybody formula (slogan) h) He is attracting and inspiring new generation of people i) He is traveling with his beautiful wife around the globe and collect the sympathy of foreign people and politicians j) He politically polarized the country and (politically) divided it on two camps k) He is the first ... President l) He inherited from his predecessor a crumbling economy and the country which is on the spiral descend m) ... and conducting not very successful war in Afghanistan n) He is more popular abroad than in this own country o) He won the Nobel Peace Price ... I think, as time goes by, we will see how this list is growing. I am afraid, that the English alphabet will not be enough for it. And the saddest part, these days -- after just few short decades -- not many young people in the West probably know who Gorbachev is. I don't think that Obama will be an exception from this rule (I am talking about other countries).