The Cheshire Cat President

On Final Asia Trip, Obama Faces Tests to U.S. Power

He has been slowly fading away since he retired 3 years ago. And now he is nearly gone.

No one has ever respected him, and they are showing it in spades today.

The Cheshire Cat makes it appearance about 4:50 into the video.

"One of President Barack Obama’s final turns on the international stage before leaving office spotlighted how some world leaders are testing the limits of U.S. power just months before a new American administration.

From the moment Mr. Obama stepped off the plane in the lakeside city of Hangzhou, China, through his meetings at a summit in Laos, he has faced challenges to his policies and overall American authority in ways large and small.

Russian President Vladimir Putin left the Obama administration empty-handed after intense negotiations on a deal to reduce violence in Syria. North Korea, the glaring setback in Mr. Obama’s Asia policy, tested ballistic missiles. On Tuesday, U.S. officials said Iran made yet another provocative move toward a U.S. Navy ship in the Persian Gulf.
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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte made profane comments about Mr. Obama on the eve of their first meeting, leading the White House to cancel a sit-down with the leader of one of America’s treaty allies. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey was unexpectedly positive in public remarks about relations with the U.S., yet also challenged a core component of Mr. Obama’s strategy against Islamic State extremists: backing Kurdish forces in Syria.

And while Chinese President Xi Jinping hosted Mr. Obama for a lengthy one-on-one meeting and cooperated with the U.S. on climate change, significant areas of tension between the two countries went unresolved."

No one has ever respected him, and they are showing it in spades today.

We are left with the choice of Trump who has proven abilities to negotiate, and has shown himself well recently, and Clinton who was a completely failed Secretary of State, leaving the world in much greater chaos after her tenure, and structuring nearly all of President Obama's failed foreign policy positions. 

Choose wisely.