8/20/11

For Obama, the game is lost

President Obama is a man who has never had to cope with failure:  Cries of  "Great job, Barry!" have followed him all the days of his life, from Hawaii  to Harvard to the White House. Now, like an overindulged child, he has  thrown down his toys in a tantrum and is blaming everyone else for his failures.
Those failures grow more catastrophic by the day.  Businesses  are frozen by the uncertainty he has bred.  Stock market investors and people still in jobs, are terrified by what is clearly another  oncoming recession, and rightly so. This time the Fed  has no ammunition to delay the inevitable. Meanwhile there is the distant thunder of  a potentially  massive economic storm in Europe.
The mood of this country could scarcely be worse. But instead of getting in front to lead, inspire, and offer  hope, Obama has chosen this critical moment to disappear on an obscenely expensive vacation. Why?  He has already played the Hope and Change cards. He knows the game is lost.