diff --git a/bin/ansible-playbook b/bin/ansible-playbook
index 4fac717c36a..ace86146c5e 100755
--- a/bin/ansible-playbook
+++ b/bin/ansible-playbook
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ def main(args):
             print callbacks.banner("PLAY RECAP")
             for h in hosts:
                 t = pb.stats.summarize(h)
-                print "%-30s : ok=%4s changed=%4s unreachable=%4s failed=%4s " % (h, 
+                print "%-30s : ok=%-4s changed=%-4s unreachable=%-4s failed=%-4s " % (h, 
                    t['ok'], t['changed'], t['unreachable'], t['failures']
                 )
             print "\n"
diff --git a/lib/ansible/callbacks.py b/lib/ansible/callbacks.py
index 8921a994230..7bbbf397937 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/callbacks.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/callbacks.py
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ def banner(msg):
         (out, err) = cmd.communicate()
         res = "%s\n" % out 
     else:
-        res = "%s ********************* \n" % msg
+        res = "\n%s ********************* " % msg
     return res
   
 
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ class PlaybookRunnerCallbacks(DefaultRunnerCallbacks):
     def on_ok(self, host, host_result):
         # show verbose output for non-setup module results if --verbose is used
         if not self.verbose or host_result.get("verbose_override",None) is not None:
-            print "ok: [%s]\n" % (host)
+            print "ok: [%s]" % (host)
         else:
             print "ok: [%s] => %s" % (host, utils.smjson(host_result))
 
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ class PlaybookCallbacks(object):
         self.verbose = verbose
 
     def on_start(self):
-        print "\n"
+        pass
 
     def on_notify(self, host, handler):
         pass