At her coming-out party at the Republican National Convention last year, Sarah Palin mocked Barack Obama's past role as a community organizer.
It didn't work.
Fortunately.
Because now we have someone in the White House with true leadership skills, honed in no small way through his years of community service. And Obama is now demonstrating those skills on the world stage.
This became especially apparent at the G-20 economic summit yesterday. While the various world leaders were working on a deal to (hopefully) bring an end to the worldwide recession, things reached a bit of an impasse when the leaders of France and China disagreed on one of the details.
But then President Obama took the two of them aside, one by one, talked with each in private, and managed to work out a compromise. The whole thing ended with the two rivals shaking hands.
Later Obama described his foreign-policy approach as "forging a consensus instead of dictating our terms."
In other words, we now have a president who truly is a uniter, not a divider.
Bravo!
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