I usually agree with you, Strings, but not here...

Because of the neo-cons getting their way with Bush a lot of the tools that are supposed to be in a president's tool box had been taken out and either lost or broken by Bush...

The reality is that Obama was dealt a very week hand and had very few tools at his disposal to fix much of anything... The Republican opposition has made it impossible to even have a domestic agenda... The neo-cons/colonialist misadventures were like time bombs for any reasonable future foreign policies to work... The Arab Spring has it roots going back decades and the countries involved are former client states of super-powers (colonialism)...

So this is the what Obama inherited... Oral Roberts would have been powerless to change much of what we are seeing with this all out assault on the 99% by the 1% and their goons... This was drawn up on paper decades ago...

B~