Obama and Merkel command(ed) respect? only by those who believe every word a bought and paid for MSM utters, the rest of us have a somewhat different view.
Independent free thinkers tend to look at results and what people actually do once they gain power, not by the eagerly ‘‘reported’’ soundbites written by umpteen stooges that fall like confetti from their mouths, to be fair to Obama he was an excellent orator and looked good on camera, which are good attributes for an actor, his Presidency however was one of stagnation and continued the destruction of the middle east and Libya started by Bush (and his Blair poodle), a series of regime changes which true history if it’s allowed to be written or known will show has not only brought utter misery and complete instability to vast swathes of the planet but heralded the current and yet to be infinitely worse demographic catastrophe in Western Europe, which will change all of our childrens lives for the worse and will in time to come see many in western europe seeking to migrate to a much safer eastern europe.
Note how many of those seemingly happy to destroy their homelands are childless 
, including our own T May, another in a long line of pointless political leaders of our UK, time will tell if Johnson means what he says and is cunning enough, because he’ll have to use cunning, to pull Brexit off despite the treachery and treason shown by so many of the elected and unelected that surround him.