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Despite a decrease in approval ratings below 40%, President Barack Obama is still the most admired man of the year in 2013, according to the Gallup Poll. Pres. Obama was trailed by former former Pres. George W. Bush and Pope Francis, both of whom shared a 4 percent vote.

There's been a number of guffaws that the President has gone through including the U.S. government shutdown ensuing an unpopular move to reform health care. Reports of the President's fervor to attack Syria for the possession of chemical weapons was another controversial move resonating disapproval in the international community.

Secretary of State John Kerry succeed bailed out the president with the Russian foreign minister urging for Syria to handover chemical weapons. The standoff was pulled aside with the intervention of the U.N., which released a report that chemical gas Serine was used in Syria.

Of course, the Snowden debacle was no less embarrassing with Snowden, a NSA securing officer holed up in a low-key Russian airport. After dissuading Latin American countries Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela among others to grant asylum to Edward Snowden and the Obama administration's insistence that the fugitive be returned, President Putin of Russia granted Snowden temporary asylum for a year.

When President Obama affirmed that Russia had been informed about the gravity of the issue, President Putin retorted that it was the Americans who chased off the Latin Americans!. The next point of failure for the President is likely to be the Iran nuke deal. According to the Huffington Post, the GOP is planning to shrivel the legislation.

In spite of it all, the President expressed stark optimism for the new year. "We're poised to do really good things," Pres. Obama was quoted as saying, adding, "This room has probably recorded at least 15 near-death experiences," referring to criticism against his policies in the last year.