It's idiotic to compare Obama to Putin ....since Putin, unlike Obama, does not hate the country he has been elected to lead. Obama doesn't give a damn about America...so why 'would' he be a strong leader for America. He is being weak to help destroy America as payback for all of the bad America has done....in his warped little mind.
This is roughly correct, though the full truth of it is a lot more complex for both Putin and Obama. Really, I think a major motive for both of them is a need for self-aggrandizement, driven by their respective ideological foundations: Russian nationalism for Putin, and leftist twaddle for Obama.
The major difference between them is that Putin is a cynical realist, whereas Obama is a juvenile idealist -- which the whole world now understands (hence Obama's embarrassment at the G20 summit).
That is what, if anything, the conversation should be about. But even Pence is too politically correct to say it like it really is.
I think we're long past any discussion of Obama, actually. The question we have to ask now is: how will the
next president deal with Putin, the Middle East, China, Europe, domestic issues, and so on.... all of which are going to come together, crashing through the Oval Office door on 22 January 2017?
I think we have a fair sense of how Trump will deal with them: a rash and irresponsible initial engagement followed by a deal of some sort, with a primary focus on short-term goals.
I'm not sure how Clinton would deal with them, but I think her actions would be driven primarily by graft, as seems to be her constant MO. At any rate, I suspect she'd collapse under the strain within a year.
