On Thursday, the Israeli Army invaded the Gaza Strip, and pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine shot down an airplane, killing 298 people, including 23 passengers.

Barack Obama was off at a Democratic fundraiser.

That prompted a few people on Facebook to post what real presidential leadership looks like. This was Ronald Reagan after the Soviet Union shot down a Korean Airlines jetliner in 1983:

That, of course, compelled Reagan-haters to criticize Reagan specifically and America generally.

For those people, I post a speech from a Democratic president, John F. Kennedy, when he announced what the Soviet Union was doing in Cuba in October 1962:

By either of those standards, Barack Obama is a miserable failure and a joke. If he were just a politician, we could dismiss him as a joke, but he is supposed to be the leader of the free world. Despite what the media thinks, Obama’s failure to live up to the expectations of the presidency is having serious negative consequences for this country.