As I write I am listening to Obama present a new face for America to his listeners in Europe.

He is demonstrating the most impeccable statesmanship and the spirit of leadership that has come out of an American leader in decades.

And his audience knows that is what they are hearing. He is offering challenges and bright goals, inspiration, responsibility and lucid reasoing.

In this he is showing himself to be ten times the man that George Bush ever was, and twice the man John McCain is.

And that is the way it is, in Berlin on Thursday, July 24, 2008.

Good night, Laura, wherever you are.


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