Obama demonstrates leadership

Listening to Barack Obama speak last week to the American people and the Congress, I had a strange and disturbing feeling.

I couldn't shake the queasy, unmistakable notion that something was amiss, strange, even foreign. Then I realized what I was reacting to: leadership, wisdom, progress, honesty.

I feel like we've been water-boarded for the last 30 years and only now allowed to breathe.