For those who believe anything, it's easy to believe in Obama

What an odd presidential campaign it is when one of the principals, John McCain, managed to capture the other day but a modest inside-page newspaper photograph of himself and a woman named Renee Gould in a supermarket, where McCain, presumably, was jawboning with her about the price of broccoli. The store was in Bethlehem, Pa. It was in the United States, and it was old-fashioned political stumping. While, in the meantime, Barack Obama was touring Europe and sounding vaguely un-American, which I don't mean in the spiteful or unpatriotic sense. In fact, he was very careful to point out that he loved America. His remarks in Berlin were so broadly encompassing of world change that he sounded like a fellow who might have been from anywhere, from France or Argentina or Turkey. He is not unlike the television news anchors who... [read full story]