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is what happens when you are still feeling your way - which Obama's people are very much doing.

But with every fresh summit they are a little more experienced (check the numbers, check the numbers) and a little more worldly wise.

Grappling with the nervy police here in Strasbourg was testing for them but they have managed to get us into another cavernous media centre (great gifts: pictures of Strasbourg through the seasons, mine to be on eBay by tonight) where a woman sang "He's got the whole world in his hands" and people clapped and swayed as they waited for Him.

The press corps, very knackered now after a 4am start, is visibly sickened by the "whole world in his hands" stuff and none too pleased by the volume at which it is sung, as reporters tap out 1,500 word analyses of Afghanistan policy. Coffee is good though and I have high hopes of lunch...

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