I dreamt that the local elections in Motovun were already in full swing when I got a bad cold. I could not do much to present the Green Party’s program to the electorate. The cold would not let go of me for a few of days. But Barrack Obama jumped in with four short television ads. He appeared not as the president of the United States, but as a citizen of the world very much concerned with the future of our medieval town. Each ad was a delight in its humbleness and coherence. He briefly presented all the main points of our party program: introduction of transparent democracy, formation of agricultural cooperatives so as to attract European Union’s funds, reexamination of golf and polo in the municipal plans… I remember being very grateful to Obama for his timely help. Only when I woke up I realized a slight problem with the ads: they were all in English rather than Croatian.