Looking forward to next year, when Barack Hussein Obama does not even make the Forbes list.
Maybe he can be #1 on “Time Spent on the Golf Course” list.
Or something.
Via IJR Review.
….In 2015, Obama was listed as the third most powerful person in the world, via Forbes’s annual list. Back then, the publication wrote, in part:
U.S. President Barack Obama fell one spot on this year’s list to #3. There’s no doubt that the United States remains the world’s greatest economic, cultural, diplomatic, technological and military power.
But as Obama enters the final year of his presidency, it’s clear his influence is shrinking, and it’s a bigger struggle than ever to get things done.
Yet, Forbes’s 2016 list has the president falling… hard….
Obama didn’t make the top ten. He didn’t even make the top 25. The current President of the United States is listed as the 48th most powerful leader in the world. Even North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Un is five spots ahead of him.
And as far as Obama plummeting goes:
America’s outgoing president faces a legacy in jeopardy as his successor has threatened to unravel signature achievements, including healthcare reform and the Iranian nuclear accord….
Obama is leaving office at a time of global upheaval; a surge in populism has generated political instability in Europe, punctuated by the June 2016 Brexit. Domestically, his successor Donald Trump rode a similar wave of electoral dissatisfaction to victory, despite Obama’s best efforts to stop him….
Even Forbes gets it right.
I don’t know. #48 sounds a bit high for me. Maybe #666?
48 out of list of 74. Lower 50th percentile. And at #74 is Chuck Schumer. We can call him, Chucky Caboose, Senate Minority Leader.