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President obama did for a completely fair and unbiased assessment? >> about as well as president bush did at a similar time in his tenure, 2005, which is to say it has not been a good year for him domestically for all of the reasons that we know since the disastrous rollout of obamacare which i think will be a rolling disaster. we haven't seen the end of it by any stretch. in foreign policy, this has been a year of american weakness. we saw it in gyrations about what to do with syria and the assad regime's use of chemical weapons. we've seen it in my view -- i have a sense there will be disagr...

Has been in perception a disaster. unmitigated disaster for the u.s. and ability to stick with promises that they make. and certainly hurt american allies in different parts of the world. snowden issue had a major impact. impact of the government shutdown and obama not showing up hurt americans on the partnership and won't get done by the end of 2014 as signal accomplishment that obama could have in foreign policy because one thing we haven't said yet which is also important is the second term team. hillary clinton is not there anymore. geithner is not there anymore. gates isn't there anymore....

Not only can you not run your economy, you don't have a functioning democracy. not his fault but it's there and second is nsa spying scandal which no one pays enough attention to. if you think of the internet as its own realm of diplomacy, we did very badly this year and talk about damage to our you' european allies, to brazil and other countries that one hurt us. he hasn't fixed it. >> what do you think about this idea that america's standing, for whatever reason, has diminished this year? >> america's standing is an investment destination, america's standing as an economy has not diminished ...

Correspondent and member of the editorial board of a newspaper and has a new book called "my promised land." let's start with this boycott. this is something -- the kind of thing that people in israel have talked about and worried about which is a campaign that delegitimatizes which is the phrase i often heard. what do you make of it? >> when i heard this news i was filled and am filled with outrage. there is a limit to the hypocrisy regarding israel one can accept. you mentioned syria and egypt. there are so many countries whose violations of human rights are so much worse than can be attribu...

Fault. one not his fault is the congressional display of shutting down the government. our standing was weakened after the financial crisis. not only can you not run the economy, you don't have a functioning democr functioning democracy. not his fault but it's there and second is nsa spying scandal which no one pays enough attention to. if you think of the internet as its own realm of diplomacy, we did a lot of damage this year. that one hurt us. he hasn't fixed it. >> what do you think about this idea that america's standing, for whatever reason, has diminished this year? >> america's standin...