Obama: Bigger than Hasselhoff.

“The Berliner Morgenpost over the weekend ran with the headline, ‘The New Kennedy.’ The tabloid Bild went with, “This Black American Has Become the New Kennedy!’” Speaking of JFK, it seems Iowa and (hopefully) New Hampshire are not alone. Obama-mania is sweeping Germany. “An editorial in the Frankfurter Rundschau went one historic president better with a headline that read simply: ‘Lincoln, Kennedy, Obama,’ adding that ‘hope and optimism’ are ‘the source of the nation’s strength.’” (I was going to say something along the lines of “But is Obama a jelly donut?” As I just discovered, though, that oft-told “Berliner” gaffe may not be true.)