Not even a lifeline could have helped her . . . There was a telling moment on today's Morning Joe when Joe Scarborough challenged April Ryan of American Urban Radio Networks to cite some of President Obama's foreign-policy successes.

Ryan was reduced to replying "that's kind of tough. Hmm, that's a tough one . . . I have to really ponder that."

Scarborough had opened the line of questioning by reading the first paragraph from his Politico column of today, Stumbling through History, describing "the wreckage" of US foreign policy with Yemen, ISIL, Syria, Iran, Libya, Jordan, Turkey and Israel.

Note: Let's see, who was Secretary of State during most of President Obama's can't-name-a-foreign-policy-success administration?

Note Segundo: perhaps if Ryan had another minute to ponder, she might have cited Mexico as a country with which the US has improved relations under President Obama. After all, his executive actions, opening our borders to hundreds of thousands of that country's most destitute and desperate, helped relieve internal economic pressures in Mexico. I'm sure its leadership is grateful.