""The truth is that that's just arguing at the margins," Mr. Obama said at a joint press conference Wednesday in London with Mr. Brown. "The core notion that government has to take some steps to deal with a contracting marketplace and to restore growth is not in dispute."

That's what Obama said in response to Sarkozy. That's our man. An American President fit for the world stage again, at last.


(Sarkozy: "I will not associate myself with a summit that would end with a communiqué made of false compromises that would not tackle the issues [of stricter regulation, more than stimulus] that concern us.")