Yep good point, its not about left v right anymore.

Its really between boring elitist global socialism v exciting patriotic do it yourselfers.

if the press is on your side it usually means you are one sick cookie.

And here I was thinking, only Gypsies had crystal balls?

I think this attempted hatchet job, character assassination, pre judged and found wanting, without any real evidence, or a plain old fashioned fair go, underlines why the major parties are losing favor.

And critiqued for being both charming and diplomatic, just weeks into the job!

Perhaps he is one of those leaders who has discovered, you catch more flies with a teaspoon of honey than a "great big" jar of vinegar!

Obama was a powerful and persuasive orator, just not powerful or persuasive enough to convince the set in concrete mindset of self serving troglytes, to put the nation first for a change, as opposed to petty partisan, business as usual, puerile politics!

Two things, casting pearls Okay, but only if you want to waste your life, trying to get diabolically dumb donkeys up and charging to the lead!

And the most forlorn hope, is to get the power consumed, power junkies to set aside all consuming ambition and lift the head, if only to look around and understand the very real harm he/she is creating; and their only lasting (hee haw) legacy/epitaph!

Obama and Macron, black and white, cheese and chalk, needle and thread!

The very first black president and the youngest!

Both vastly more human and empathetic than any that preceded them!? Except maybe, President Kennedy? And exterminated for his potential to be the best ever?
Alan B.