Obama, Buchanan, Bolton and me

Former UN Ambassador John Bolton said a short time ago that Obama is the weakest president since James Buchanan. Buchanan, Lincoln's immediate predecessor, took no steps to speak of to head off the Civil War that was widely seen as coming by both northern and southern leaders.

Well, John, welcome to the club I formed in 2009. I made that same comparison then, although I did say that Obama had not quite reached equivalency. But he did, long ago, in fact.