obama is more fucked up than I had thought
 

King Salman?s decision to skip the summit meeting does not mean that the Saudis are giving up on the United States ? they do not have many other options, said Karim Sadjadpour, an Iran expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. ?As upset as the Saudis are, they don?t really have a viable alternative strategic partnership in Moscow or Beijing,? Mr. Sadjadpour said.

But, he added, ?there?s a growing perception at the White House that the U.S. and Saudi Arabia are friends but not allies, while the U.S. and Iran are allies but not friends.?

I think it has to do with the ceasefire and him looking like our bitch internationally meeting with the POTUS at the same time. The optics wouldn't have been good.

This is fucked up...yet George W Bush basically dropping a match in the middle east tinderbox to finish his daddy's war is not fucked up at all. Cough up the tumbleweeds that are depriving your frontal lobe of oxygen, so you can put things in perspective.

Comparing oneself to GWB isn't setting the bar very high.

Even his own party is turning on him
Schumer, Reid aiming to make Obama a lame duck | New York Post

President Obama has steadfastly refused to accept the notion he?s a lame duck ? despite last year?s repudiation at the polls, which gave Republicans control of both houses of Congress.
Well, part of Congress seems fired up to make him a lame duck ? by working to torpedo his hoped-for 12-nation trade deal.
It?s not the Republicans.
Nope: It?s Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid lame-ducking the president ? with New York?s own Chuck Schumer enthusiastically helping out.
On Tuesday, Reid declared he?s prepared to gum up the works to block debate on granting Obama ?fast track? authority to negotiate the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
The senator had promised not to stand in the way of the TPP, which he opposes. But now he vows to block any progress until the Senate first votes on an infrastructure bill and an overhaul of the Patriot Act.
Reid plainly doesn?t care that a president of his own party wants the pact as a major legacy-builder. And Schumer is singing the same tune, dismissing trade deals as a ?race to the bottom.?
His eye on succeeding Reid as the Senate Democrats? leader, Schumer has plainly decided his president?s agenda doesn?t matter.
When Republicans pulled stunts like this, Reid and Schumer called them ?obstructionists.? What?s the right term for Democrats blocking a Democratic president?