Most Europeans have a very caricatured view of America and Americans, and I say that as someone who doesn't particularly like either. I'm sure seeing that there aren't shootings every five minutes is a revelation to them.

The people I've talked to liked it, enough to go back, although they were very disturbed by the state of American cities and the druggie problems - and that even though European cities are hardly pristine anymore. I heard that people liked the waffle places. Well, that is very understandable to me, I wish I had a place dedicated just to waffles here.

For my own view, there is two things that I do love about America: more free speech than we have, and the houses that are enormous by European standards. You will have a beggar family on TV that lives in a larger and nicer house than anyone I know, like the Simpsons or something. Oh, and primaries are pretty great. Here we choose between the people the party leadership decides we get to choose between.