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“What a man!” That was the concluding remark of a blonde German reporter named Judith Bonesky in her enthusiastic account of an encounter with Obama at the Berlin Ritz Carlton, where she went to stalk him in the hotel gym. Yeah, no kidding. Apparently, “he didn’t even sweat!”

Everyone has been writing about Obama’s trip to Germany, where over 200,000 people showed up to hail the prophet. Some crush, they have. In the words of a young man interviewed by NYT’s Berlin correspondent: “He’s more like a rockstar, I think.”