Gordon Brown, while in office as British PM, takes the unprecedented step of endorsing Obama. Recently, foul-mouth Brit Russell Brand at the MTV award calls Bush a “retard” and goes off on Palin in rather disgusting terms, intermixed with pathetic calls to elect Obama. Then, the BBC conducts a “world” poll to inform us that the planet likewise wants Obama. Given what we saw in ‘04 with the British interest in Ohio, and the sinking polls that followed the Obama “Ich bin ein Europeaner” speech in front of the Victory Column, one would think the European community, and especially the British, if for no other reason than to see their preferred candidate win, would keep quiet, and should pay as little attention to our elections as we do to theirs.