Can you imagine President Bush delivering a speech to Muslims and quoting seamlessly from the Bible, the Quran and the Talmud? Any reconciliatory words from a born-again Christian who declared after 9/11, "Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists," would carry no echo from Cairo.
"As-Salamu Alaykum," President Obama said Thursday, delivering the Arab greeting (peace be upon you) exactly one minute into a 55-minute speech in the Arab world's largest city.
Bush would've tumbled headfirst over those...
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