REALLY? WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST CLUE? Obama’s foreign policy far from victorious. Though to be fair, to judge whether he’s succeeding, you have to know what he’s trying to accomplish.

Related: Nick Gillespie: Obama’s Final SOTU Is a Dud, Like His Presidency. Domestically and abroad, he has set more fires than he put out. “He promised a short speech but then droned on for what seemed like a hell of a long time. He said he wouldn’t give a laundry list and instead just sort of dumped laundry on the table. There were feints toward the sort of optimism—the hope and change—that energized his original victory, but nobody in or out of the Capitol was energized by it.”