There has been virtually no :domestic policy" as the Republican led House has stopped every initiative that Obama has put forward...

The Affordable Care Act was all we were going to realistically get... It ain't great but it's the first step toward a single payer system like Canada and every European country has...

Foreign policy??? Face it... Out of the colonial period came the client nation period... All of the powers ended up in such relationships... We have been kinda overseers of our client nations... That's not on Obama... That goes back to the end of WW II... Our client nations aren't anything that an incoming president get to pick... They convey from one president to the next...

It's not that easy for any president to shake up those relationships...

I'd be very interested to hear what Suzie and LH think Obama could have done differently in regards to these relationships... He didn't crank up and hot wars... That's a plus...

I mean, I guess that there are those who falsely blame Obama for the Arab Spring, I donno??? If there are then I'd like to hear from them on what Obama could have done to prevent it...

That's my point here... Seems that a lot of folks don't quite understand how few tools were in the White House tool box when Obama took office... Many of the tools had been taken out and broken by Bush... Many of them just taken out by the Republican Congress...

I mean, there seems to be this naivety here about the executive powers...

B~