so we will begin with kathleen troia mcfarland. >> thank you very much. [applause] >> how many of you watch fox news? forget all the stuff he said. a brunette on fox okay. "suicide of the west: an essay on the meaning and destiny of liberalism". the majority of americans including the president believe our best days are over. his attitude is contagious. i think the president feels strongly that leading from behind means we will be left behind and that is okay because the world has not been a better place with american leadership. e-book that the last 10 or 15 years, certainly the last republican administration, and the president honestly feels, as do his like-minded contemporaries that the world is a better place if america takes a step down. why? because the global community whatever that means is somehow going to run things and i don't think he fought for what tends to happen when a great power steps back from the world's stage instead of the global community. it tends to be dictatorships monarchies, authoritarian governments to do not wish us well but