Good point about the Obama administration or at least Obama, I'd forgotten that a frequent complaint about Obama was that he hadn't either formed or built on our national relationships which rely heavily on the President's relationships and direction. The Russian invasion of Crimea was treated more like a blip rather than a significant event. That was clearly a big mistake.

I always thought even though I did not want Hillary riding Clinton as my first choice that she would have been a better choice than Obama because she not only had her own relationships she had built but those of her husband as well and she had the deep connections that came along with their long government existence.