"Menace is essential in a world leader if he (or she) is going to be feared as well as admired. Obama falls into the admired category — the leader who won the Nobel Peace Prize with mere good intentions, a guy who had a new attitude toward Russia (a reset) and Iran (an approach) and China (a pivot) and, of course, to the Muslim world — an appreciation from a president who had broken the mold. We know him now as someone miscast: a rational man in an irrational world.
A president’s demeanor is no minor thing. It can matter greatly. For an example, history serves up Gerald Ford, president by virtue of a third-rate burglary. Ford succeeded Richard Nixon, who resigned in 1974 on account of the Watergate scandal. The year before, the United States and North Vietnam reached a cease-fire in the Vietnam War. Nixon hailed it as “peace with honor.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/richard-cohen-obama-must-be-feared-as-well-as-admired/2014/10/13/d021f3c2-5300-11e4-892e-602188e70e9c_story.html?hpid=z2
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