#17 Barack Obama  How would you rank Barack Obama?  What other
guys thought:   Why is Barack Obama influential?  Barack Obama
may be the most powerful man in the world, but he hasn’t had it
easy. In the first year of his second term, his administration
has been hit with the Edward Snowden leak, the Syria crisis, the
Obamacare rollout, the government shutdown and debt-ceiling
deadline, to name only a few storms he's had to weather. With an
acrimonious Congress deeply mired in partisan battles, there are
no easy answers to the issues facing America, and it remains to
be seen how President Obama will fare in a time of low trust in
government. Still, his steady hand in the face of GOP adversity
makes it seem like the commander-in-chief was the real winner of
the shutdown.   Photo Credit: Getty Images