McCain says, "I don't have to tell you, old comrades, I hate war." Three generations of veterans in the hall applaud. For all the electrifying moments at Obama rallies, there has never been one quite like this.

Through his unabashed Christian faith, Obama is redefining the American Dream. His vision is one of individual freedom but tempered by obligation. Obama is pious and he is going to put us on a national diet.

Secular Democrats don't like Obama's faith-based plans any more than church leaders do. "Cut out the Jesus part?" one asks me. "I don't think so!"

In the wake of Hillary's loss, McCain has an opening with Hispanic voters, but his inability to reach through to exploit it is the real story of La Raza San Diego.

The John McCain town hall meeting is a fraud. The town halls are not about local issues. They're not conversational. They don't feature a lot of straight talk. They're sad and they're an opportunity lost.

Berlin is girding itself for up to a million spectators. The security cost to the city is closing on $500,000. And some Germans are already preparing not to like what Obama has to say.

"Be Obama, be change, be Berlin," the Berliner Zeitung babbles this morning. Obama is clearly campaigning here, no matter what Americans think, and certainly young Europeans embrace him as a leader.

Obama did not wow his audience in Berlin. It was the wrong message, the wrong venue. If he does manage to "remake the world once again," however, the speech will be seen as a first wobbly step.

In the latest issue of Park Avenue, sort of a German version of Town and Country, there is an Annie Leibovitz photograph of "Miche," posed like European aristocracy.