Even back then, he was supporting many extreme leftist ideas and policies on the campaign trail...but, the majority of US citizens must have been missing it. I know I was.
I don't think Obama is extreme left, not even close, and I say that with full knowledge of his policies. On the US political spectrum he's left, neither extreme or moderate, but on a global political spectrum he's quite conservative. Health care reform, as originally proposed by him, still wouldn't have created a universal health care system. The US is the only developed country without one. There's plenty more examples, but I think you get my point. It's about local vs global context.
To the rest of the world, anyone farther right than "American centre-left" is a nutcase. I describe most Republican senators as "batshit insane" without any risk of offending people in Canada. Here even our most conservative major party supports a single-payer universal health care system.
A couple European countries haven't done so well, they're the ones in the news. Greek and Irish bailouts don't change the accomplishments of the rest of the continent. I also encourage you to look at little closer to home at Canada. In many ways we're farther left than Europe, and not so coincidentally have a very stable financial sector (Europe deregulated under US pressure, Canada didn't).
Remember, the rest of the developed world is politically left of the US. Globally there's more success stories than failures, and the US economy isn't looking so great these days.
There's also more than just the economy. I'd still take living in Ireland over living in the US. Any country where more than 5% of people think Sarah Palin is anything but a complete moron scares me.
My BenQ FP241W is 16:10 and supports HDCP. I can either stretch the 16:9 video or letterbox it.
But there's the thing, MobileMe. AFAIK there is no enterprise equivalent to MobileMe where it can be centrally managed. Also, two-way push sync with your e-mail server is the whole point of BES. It syncs just about everything on your phone with the equivalent Outlook (or whatever) features. It also provides end to end AES encryption, compared to the iPhone situation where the iPhone was reporting encryption when there wasn't any. That has rightfully so shaken the faith of a lot of security-minded people in the iPhone.
One way to make your old car run better is to look up the price of a new model.