WOULD YOU BELIEVE THIS GUY? –  AT 3:36 P.M. ET:  Naturally, in the midst of all this international chaos, who should grace us with his rhetorical presence?  Who else but the man got us into a lot of this, Barack (just call me Field Martial) Obama.  And he chose to speak, not at home to an American audience, but to South Africa, a human-rights hellhole with one of the worst records of sexual violence against women in the world.  But why be bothered with that stuff?  It was vintage Obama.  Ring kissing is in order.  From AP:

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Former U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday was making his highest-profile speech since leaving office, urging people around the world to respect human rights and other values under threat in an address marking the 100th anniversary of anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela's birth.

While not directly mentioning his successor, President Donald Trump, Obama's speech in South Africa countered many of Trump's policies, rallying people to keep alive the ideas that Mandela worked for including democracy, diversity and good education for all.

Obama opened by describing today's times as "strange and uncertain," adding that "each day's news cycle is bringing more head-spinning and disturbing headlines."

These days "we see much of the world threatening to return to a more dangerous, more brutal, way of doing business," Obama said.

His words were met with cheers by a crowd of about 14,000 people gathered at a cricket stadium in Johannesburg for the speech, which was streamed online.

"Just by standing on the stage honoring Nelson Mandela, Obama is delivering an eloquent rebuke to Trump," said John Stremlau, professor of international relations at Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, who called the timing auspicious as the commitments that defined Mandela's life are "under assault" in the U.S. and elsewhere.

"Yesterday we had Trump and Putin standing together, now we are seeing the opposing team: Obama and Mandela."

This is Obama's first visit to Africa since leaving office in early 2017. He stopped earlier this week in Kenya, where he visited the rural birthplace of his late father.

COMMENT:  The man is living in his own, ego-driven world.  For eight years he was the most ineffectual town councilman we've ever had in the White House.  Human rights did not advance.  Communism did.  Terror was not defeated.  It expanded.  ISIS came into its own. 

And at home, Obama seemed to work overtime to increase, not decrease, the racial divide.  And under his high-morality rule (choke) the murder of police officers increased.

Obama has been out of office for a year and a half.  You don't hear a word about him.  I think the American people figured him out.

July 17,  2018