If the only driving feature of you posts and comments are about domestic politics, why post them here?

Our politics will remain little more than a spectacle to them - this may dawn on a few of them taking a train to the rally when they get off at S-Bahnhof Zoo to attend it.

Disinterested participation in a spectacle of (in this case) other people's political lives. As Zyme note, things like an incredibly ridiculous and simplitic expectation that he's a European in his mind - a kind of Manchurian candidate there to serve their needs and give Europe something else that would come at no cost to them.

Or if nothing else, someone new for them to hate. You know, some sort of change of scenery.

We've read in these very pages, in other blogs, and in the media just what it is that non-electors who would not be governed under the US presidential elections think they want out of it, and it displays a lack of seriousness (what do they care anyway,) a lack of familiarity, and betrays the fact that they don't care about what the candidate's positions really are - they just want to see a sort of dramatic-statement action in November that will satisfy their emotions for one day.

Besides, are you suggesting that the US voter should set aside their one issues of who governs them and take any significant amount of concideration for those not governed, not involved, and not taxed over their own? Especially when their general opinion of how Americans should govern themselves is almost universally critical, no matter what it is? No way. In genuine societies, voters elect on their conscience for their own reasons - not based on ahall of mirrors built by the yack-arati from within and from abroad, or from a population that has virtually no stake in the issues over the American public's own stake.

Just think about it for a moment - how incredibly insane the very idea of paying any significant attention to the desire of non-citizens and non-residents really is. It's overarching and dispalys a real lack of the understanding or respect of soverignty and a government-by-the-people who elect those who govern THEM, and advance laws they ompose on THEMSELVES as body. Just take a second and think about it.
On the flip-side, various Americans have opinions about elections abroad AFTER they occur, but to virtually no degree at all during a campaign, unless the issue at hand is a rigged vote.
I'm sure that will evoke the tired, unproven, pavlovian responses of "Bush stole the election", etc., etc. - and if that is you instinct to say that, you'll never be taken seriously by Americans in general, and you certainly wouldn't hear from me again, because the cheapness and the lack of any need to back up that sort of allegation fits precisely the idea that the person making it simply doesn't care about the veracity of their statement or the outcome of saying it.

Anyone can speak their mind - including you and me, and eaach of us can embarass ourselves all we like. The last two paragraphs are the motive behind my position on this.

It says something about how sad and empty a society must be when simple principals of the acceptance of the choices a population make for itself are though to be not important enough that there are editorials that come up like clockwork saying that non-Americans should be able to vote in American elections, as well as so many other stale, repeated points.

More to the point about the attitude with which American affairs are treated: it isn't about being educated, intelligent, wise to the world, all of those things that are used to explain the contrast between Americans and Europeans, it is this the superficiality and ignorance evident in the fact that the same sorts of themes, thought experiments, and opinions are recycled quadrennially.

No matter what happens in the US, there is the requisite display of disappointment and shock about something after it's done. It's followed by a deflated feeling, and the occasional pundit surmising that they just don't understand Americans.
To look at it without sentiment and in its' most basic terms, it's pedantry founded in ignorance, a dissinterest resulting from thinking human nature is predictable, and lazy press coverage. It also might originate in the fact that social democracies are boring places to live, where changes are always cushioned by bureaucratic meddling and correction after the fact.

But one thing remains certain: Europeans take an unhealthy interest in our elections - far more than anyone on earth takes in European domestic affairs, and it probably comes at the expense of interest in local events.

So to address your point, I never suggested that people weren't entitiled to their opinion. At the same time I'm entitled to mine, and to air the simple fact that the US isn't their country, and that they really should establish one of their own.
They should drop their cynicism and their special interests for a moment - try to find a few serious and genuine principles to found it on that's at the core of their being, and create something of their own to worry and obsess over.
Maybe then, they can build some of the same sort of innocent belief in people that Americans try find and idealize sometimes in vain - but at least they'll stop trying find something they want for themselves in a United Europe vicariously by kicking us in the nuts every other day over our own political choices.