THE AGE OF OBAMA – QUOTE OF THE DAY – AT 10:17 A.M. ET:  The New York Post very neatly sums up the seven-year record of Barack Obama in carrying out, or destroying, the foreign policy of the United States: 

Just three years ago, President Obama famously ridiculed GOP opponent Mitt Romney’s statement that Russia remained America’s main geopolitical foe by taunting: “The 1980s are calling to ask for their foreign policy back.”

Four years before that, Obama stood at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate to declare that once he became president, all people would join him around a global campfire, hold hands and put an end to the world’s evils and miseries.

Well, seven years into Obama’s presidency, the promised worldwide Kumbaya is instead global chaos — caused in large measure by his willful retreat from America’s position of leadership.

Washington’s traditional allies increasingly feel abandoned, its enemies emboldened. The United States isn’t even leading from behind — it’s cowering in weakness.

And no one is taking better advantage of this than Vladimir Putin, now storming headlong into the yawning chasm of American retreat and reasserting Russia’s global influence and power — just as Mitt Romney said.

COMMENT:  Beautifully stated.  But will Americans care on election day next year?  I think they will, if the Republicans come up with the best candidate available, rather than the next guy in line. 

October 5, 2015