If you want to inform yourself about the election in the USA -- here are some interesting links:

Barack Obama:

Speech in Denver:

http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/president/conventions/videos/20080828_OBAMA_SPEECH.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/28/barack-obama-democratic-c_n_122224.html

if you prefer the German translation: http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/content/571750?inPopup=true

www.barackobama.com/

John McCain:

www.johnmccain.com/

If you want to find out something about American Presidents or even their First Ladies try the following links:

http://www.americanpresidents.org/survey/historians/

http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/

http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/

Here you can read the inaugural addresses:

http://www.bartleby.com/124/

http://www.americanpresidents.org/classroom/addresses.asp