Obama the Underperformer

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As the presidential candidates enter the three-month sprint to November, Barack Obama must be wondering: If that did not do it, what will? The antecedent of the pronoun "that" is his Berlin speech. The antecedent of the pronoun "it" is assuage anxieties about his understanding of the need to supplement soft power (diplomacy) with hard power (military force).

He spoke in Berlin at the bullet-scarred base - it was in the crossfire 63 years ago as Russian troops neared Hitler's bunker about a mile away - of an 1873 monument to German militarism. To be precise, the monument celebrates the Franco-Prussian War and lesser triumphs of the militarism that would help ruin the next century.

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Obama the Underperformer

Anyway, at that monument Obama exhorted Germans - does the candidate of "change" appreciate how much beneficent change made this exhortation necessary? - to be more willing ...

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