I watched some video of President Obama’s speech earlier today. I think it’s a testament to the human condition to struggle mightily against overwhelming odds that Wall Street traders didn’t fling themselves off tall buildings after watching that performance by the nation’s (leading from behind) leader.

A speech like the one Obama gave today is supposed to be read directly into the camera. He was speaking to the American people. Instead, Obama focused his extraordinary gifts of persuasion on making sure the teleprompters were still on his side. (If you lose the TOTUS, you’ve lost middle America.)

Obama announced that he will eventually have a plan. You’d think that there’d be some lying around that he could use. Quick, someone tell him about that Simpson-Bowles thing that he commissioned last year and then promptly ignored!

This would be funny if it were happening to another country; when it’s your own, it’s tragically sad.

We’re being led (from behind) by a man who is woefully inept but, thanks to a supine media, actually believes his press. Never before has a man been so lauded for so little.