President Barack Obama is best at making speeches. His best ones create a strongly seductive political mood that change is coming, not just at home but in the way the United States does business with the rest of the world.
His address to the UN General Assembly showed, once again, not simply his rhetorical skill but his understanding of the forces that drive international affairs.
But his speeches can’t answer the biggest question about Mr Obama's leadership: can he translate fine words into concrete actions?
So far he could not manage it in the Middle East. No reasonable being should expect a solution inside his first year.
But Mr Obama has suffered because of the expectations that his own words has aroused.
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