Via The Big Picture. I will be spending most of December in Berlin so I will see what they think. All I know is that Berlin — and the rest of Europe I covered in 2008 — hoped that Barack Obama‘s presidential win might tone down the tragic global perception of America as an Idiocracy.
I was just in Berlin last week
Here is my overview of the trip:
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/11/ich-bein-ein-berliner/