Who is talking here?

I just read an article from MSNBC explaining how europeans are dismayed that Obama's party may take a hit on Tuesday. In fact, the article actually say this: "Many Europeans don't get it. 'They're very confused as to how [Americans] could vote for Obama and then two years later turn around and vote for a completely different set of policies,' Sarah Oates, professor of political communication the University of Glasgow, told msnbc.com."

So a professor in the UK does not understand how voters could vote for one party and, after two years of bad experience, change their minds and vote for the opposition. Maybe the professor is also confused why people breathe out after they breathe in. Even for the Obama apologists at MSNBC this article is lame. Are Americans actually supposed to believe that europeans are confused? Are americans actually supposed to care what the europeans think about our politics? Indeed, are Americans to believe that europeans actually follow our politics in any degree of detail?

The truth is that there are certainly some Europeans who follow american politics, just as there are some in the USA who understand that the current UK government is a coalition between the Conservatives and the Liberal parties. I doubt, however, if there are too many Americans who would have the audacity to lament the fact that UK voters changed their mind in the last election and voted out Gordon Brown and the Labour party. We would respect the decision of the Brits and simply try to move forward with the new government of the UK. Indeed, I suspect that aside from the fools that spoke to MSNBC, that is exactly how most Brits feel about the current US election.

I do wonder why MSNBC puts this garbage out there. Is it to make their leftist audience feel better about the impending electoral debacle? Is it to let their audience believe that the Europeans love Obama so that they must be right in persisting in following him over the cliff?

We will never know for sure.