On Impressing Greece Et Al

clipped from corner.nationalreview.com A veteran politician, Clinton compared the complex European political environment to that of the two-party U.S. system, before adding: "I have never understood multiparty democracy. "It is hard enough with two parties to come to any resolution, and I say this very respectfully, because I feel the same way about our own democracy, which has been around a lot longer than European democracy." The E.U. delegate from Athens must have been particularly impressed by the Secretary of State's command of history. Between this, the Fleet Street accolades over Obama's handling of U.K. prime minister Gordon Brown's recent visit, and the way the administration deftly brought Russia on board to help rein in Iran's nuclear ambitions — they're just running the foreign policy table. It feels so good to have the adults in charge once again.