DELUSIONAL: The Hill: Obama touts ‘pretty smart policies.’ “President Obama bragged the nation was ‘better off now than we were five years ago’ while touting the economic recovery in a campaign-style speech on Wednesday in Denver, arguing administration officials have made some ‘pretty smart policies.’ . . . The president has seen his popularity fade in his second term, besieged by crises abroad and controversies over mismanagement at federal agencies like the VA and the IRS.”