44 Turns Up The Volume On His Megaphone

If you need yet more dramatic proof that our new president is the antithesis of our old president, check out this op-ed by 44 published in 30 newspapers around the world today.

Where Dubya was stubborn, myopic, and unable to understand how multilateral cooperation on issues of global concern was beneficial, Obama is a true statesman, talking directly to the citizens of the world about how the global economic crisis cannot be fixed by one nation's solutions. In advance of the meeting of the Group of 20 this week, he insists that they must "embrace a common framework" to stop the global decline.

Although I laud the president's efforts here, one can't help but wonder if his concern over China's talk of replacing the dollar as the global reserve currency had something to do with penning the piece.