Remember all the talk about Barack Obama being tested early, probably in his first year, as president? Well, look at the Somali incident with pirates capturing innocent American civilians and this week's incident with journalists in North Korea.
So, how did Obama perform with being tested as a young, inexperience president not ready for the 3 AM call of an international crises?
A+. There is not debating it. Everyone was rescued and released with no physical harm, no international drama, no wrecked international relations.
So where are the kudos? The MSM, such as Jake Tapper today, question whether these are signs of "weakness" here. It is natural for the anti-Obama party of NO and their cable "news" network to bring out the dead like John Bolton and Dick Morris to find something negative to talk about.
But let's face it ... we should celebrate having an administration that handles such problems with grace, calm and lacks the chest-bumping cowboy diplomacy that marked the last 8 years.