'The United States is now plagued by intimations of mortality, and is under a president whose highest ambition seems to be the abdication of global responsibilities.'

“While no longer accepting any special responsibility on the world stage, Obama pretends that we are all citizens together. Like Hamlet the President soliloquises; he does not act”

'Obama found it easier to perform the role of critical intellectual than commander-in-chief'

Three years away from the Presidential election, the Democrat and Republican candidates are already having a tilt at the Oval Office