AMERICA: A Country Unworthy Of President Barack Obama?

Maybe Obama is mistaking his own experience as president for some broader trends.

It’s certainly true that many things have gotten worse since he took office. Unemployment is up, earnings are down. The poverty rate has climbed, the dollar has fallen. Gas prices are way up but housing prices are way down. And the economic recovery, which started a mere five months after Obama was sworn in, has been the most anemic since the Great Depression.

But despite Obama’s endless efforts to shift blame, the fault for these trends lies not with the American people or the actions of his predecessors. It lies with Obama’s own wrongheaded efforts that have vastly expanded the size and intrusiveness of government, weighed the country down with massive debt and threatened ever higher taxes.

Americans don’t need lectures from their president about how soft, selfish or shiftless they’ve become. We need only to relieve the country of his policies.

Indeed.