calamity, perplexity, and failure

the new yorker lays out the case for obama fairly and squarely (as fairly and squarely as a northeast liberal elite publication can) and they come to what is becoming a broken record of a conclusion:

At a moment of economic calamity, international perplexity, political failure, and battered morale, America needs both uplift and realism, both change and steadiness. It needs a leader temperamentally, intellectually, and emotionally attuned to the complexities of our troubled globe. That leader’s name is Barack Obama.

intellectually and emotionally attuned to the complexities of our troubled globe?

yoo betcha! (wink)