Obama in Berlin
It ain't going to be as easy as suggests, this job of bringing Europe and the US together again.
European enthusiasm for Barack Obama - as witnessed in Berlin - is in part created by hopes that President Obama would be, er, more European. Some feel there is evidence to back up this view.
A good example: was right or wrong in counting Mr Obama as an anti-death penalty enthusiast?
If the man was right, European enthusiasm will be justified and satisfied - domestic issues like the death penalty fuel anti-American sentiment just as much as (in fact probably more than) foreign policy.
But I doubt that Obama is as European as some believe (or the Republicans hope). And he, of course, did not broach the subject.
As for - it was not his strongest.
Does that matter? suggests perhaps not.
And is worth a read for those who like their scepticism Biblically-inspired...
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