Meine Führer

Together for the first time, each represents his and her people well: He, calmly passionate, rhetorically charismatic, necessarily humble, casually multiracial, able to get away with giving the Queen of England an iPod; She, spectacularly plain, secularly conservative, unmysteriously opaque, defiantly relaxed, able to hold her own in a world of bullies.

So American -- So German.

Here's to bridging the Great Cultural Divide, meine Führer!