Of whom is he speaking? You guess:
It's hard to help feeling a sneaking admiration for a leader who can respond to a tragedy without resorting to either bluster or bathos, and who can acknowledge weakness and humiliation without immediately seguing into the narrative of self-congratulation and moral uplift that American Presidents automatically reach for in such circumstances.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2007/09/ross-crush/225287/
