The enthusiasm for Obama around the world is amazing. All these different foreign dignitaries and leaders and diplomats have been gushing and saying things like, "it's like the biggest thing since JFK, even if it's not exactly the same, that's the feeling".

It's nice to have an American leader go abroad and not incite bombings and riots and the largest protests since Vietnam. That so many people see Obama as what America could be isn't going to hurt him one bit.

And what with the White House reversing itself on Iran, and forming an exit strategy out of Iraq with a timetable for withdrawal, that lends Obama instead cred in terms of foreign policy, not matter what Lieberman and Giuliani say while Obama is out of the country. Which is in poor taste if you ask me. I thought that was something people don't do.