“First Pacific President”

…gets schooled.
In point of fact, Theodore Roosevelt was probably the first Pacific President. It was Teddy, of course, who (as Assistant Secretary of the Navy) told Dewey to take his fleet to Hong Kong and prepare to attack the Spanish in the Philippines, two months before the Battle of Manila Bay — and it was Teddy who, as President, sent the Great White Fleet around the world, with a pointed stop in Tokyo Bay.
And of course Teddy got his Nobel for actually doing something — mediating the Treaty of Portsmouth that ended the Russo-Japanese War.
But then, Øbama was a community organizer. I wouldn’t expect him to know anything about history.
LATER RUMINATION: If Teddy and Truman aren’t good enough, what about Nixon? After all, “Only Nixon could go to China.”
And Millard Fillmore sent Commodore Perry to “open” Japan, clear back before the Civil War.