Sad that the man in charge of the entire US government is a petulant, vindictive man

Victor Davis Hanson: At the White House, There’s Nobody Home; The absence of true leadership has created chaos at home and abroad.

"What has gone wrong with the U.S. government in the past month? Just about everything, from the fundamental to the ridiculous.

"Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the United States to warn Congress about the dangers of a nuclear Iran. He spoke without the invitation of an irritated President Obama, who claimed that he did not even watch the address on television.

"Obama declined to even meet with the Israeli prime minister, announcing that it would have been improper for him to have such a meeting so close to Netanyahu’s re-election bid."

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. . . "No one seems to be in charge at the White House. And that has terrified America’s supporters and emboldened its enemies — with another two years to go."

After Netanyahu win, Obama takes off the gloves  "The Obama administration woke up Wednesday morning to a sobering new reality on the ground in Jerusalem – instead of a weakened or rejected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Washington will now face the return of “King Bibi.” The White House has to come to terms with a Netanyahu who, defying the predictions, has been shored up by a strong mandate for his rightward-turning campaign.

"In the final days before the election, the Obama administration was on good behavior – both the State Department and the White House barely responded to campaign statements by Netanyahu that walked back his previous comments in support of a two-state agreement. They also abided not-very-veiled accusations of US meddling in an effort to undermine Netanyahu’s candidacy. But on Wednesday, the gloves came off." . . .

Obama finally calls Netanyahu, says US rethinking Palestinian policy
But Obama also told Netanyahu that the US is reassessing its approach to Israeli-Palestinian peace in light of Netanyahu’s pre-election comments rejecting the establishment of a Palestinian state, a White House official said. Netanyahu had backtracked on those comments earlier Thursday, but the White House had swiftly dismissed his new, more moderate comments.