Hi Helen, your France trip seems to have inspired you - you seem to have catched a writing fire. :-)

I am not sure I made the comment about the age of ET'ers in connection with Obama. Though looking at the people present in Paris I would say the age was higher than I would expect from a internet group.

About Obama, I still think if he becomes President his followers will have a hard awakening. Not because he is bad, but because he is not defined. I still don't know what he really stands for. To me he is like a Rorschach ink blot, you can project on him what ever you want. Unfortunately, it seems like many people are projecting all their hopes and expectations for a better future on him, but I doubt that he will be able to fullfil all these projections.

I think the awakening with Hillary would be less rude, not because she is better, but her weaknesses are better know and thus maybe the expectations not as high as with Obama.