I think Obama's priorities were to reclaim the US from the mess Bush made.
It's rather peculiar that that particular SCOTUS, with those particular "scholars" funded by the NRA and the gun lobby made a decision that went against 200+ years of the interpretation of the Second Amendment. It's not just my disagreement with their rulings. It has been pointed out by many that the first half of the Second Amendment just vanished without any suitable explanation. Odd.
Who says foreigners know the least? American history and politics are taught throughout the world. I would think there are a good number of foreigners who are far more fit to judge than uneducated US citizens. And it certainly isn't comical that that is the case, now is it?