The Progressive

After the long, dark years of the Bush presidency, any change in foreign policy will seem very enlightened. But President Obama's approach to the rest of the world may not be the night and day difference from President Bush's that people around the planet are hoping it will be.

So bad was John McCain's speech on Tuesday night, even the pundits on Fox conceded that Obama sounded a lot better, and that McCain would surely "improve," as Fred Barnes put it.

It wasn't his best speech. For one thing, I know he believes in recycling, but did he have to reuse so many of his lines from previous speeches?