Herald Tribune - "Obama's popularity soars - in Germany"

"The Berliner Morgenpost over the weekend ran with the headline, "The New Kennedy."... 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."... Obama's newfound popularity among Germans underscores not only the breadth of his appeal but also the opportunity he might have as president... to mend fences abroad as well as at home... Christoph von Marschall, Washington bureau chief for the Tagesspiegel newspaper [is the] author of a book released here last month called Barack Obama, The Black Kennedy." (IHT, 6 Jan)