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Obama: the right man at the wrong time

By Gideon Rachman

Published: April 6 2009 19:41 | Last updated: April 6 2009 19:41

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And so it was that Barack Hussein Obama visited Europe. In London, he rescued the world economy. In Strasbourg, he healed the Nato alliance. In Prague, he rid the world of nuclear weapons. In Ankara, he reconciled Islam and the west. And on the seventh day, he got back on to Air Force One and disappeared into a cloudless sky.

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