I am always perplexed when people talk about charisma in this leader or that. People now talk about charisma in Obama. I never see it. But then again: I met George Habash: charisma was personified in him. I used to look at the faces of old people in the audience when he would give one of his long speeches in `Abdun-Nasir's Hall at the Arab University of Beirut. After Habash, there is no charisma.