The view is spreading

David Paul Kuhn writing on Real Clear Politics this morning asks whether Obama is at a tipping point. Has Obama reached a point where perceptions of him as a failed leader are getting carved into stone?

My response to this question is that it is the wrong one to ask. The real question is whether or not the truth that Obama is aloof and a poor leader is finally getting out. This is not about perceptions; it is about truths. No one who looked fairly at Obama's "style" (read lack) of leadership, could grade him well on what he has done. He started with a stimulus bill that he left to others to write. As a result, we got a bill with little stimulus but a whole lot of political payoffs. When it inevitably failed to create jobs, Obama pays the price, not the hacks who wrote it. Then we move on to the budget that once again got written by others. Obama pushed it through and we had enormous expenditure increses with little to show for all that cash (other than a lot of happy cronies of the Democrats). The public is not so stupid as to miss this. Next came Obamacare which again was written by others. Obama allowed the law to get pushed through in the face of clear public opposition and -- to make matters worse -- in a sleazy, back room deal fashion. Throw in the Sestak and Romanoff scandal, the passivity in the face of ecological disaster in the Gulf, the inaction on Iran, the anger directed at close allies like Britain and Israel, etc. and you get a president who seems to have had no successes anywhere. More than anything else, however, you have a president who talks about saving creating jobs. Hoopla about that subject has be omnipresent since day one of the administration. Every new job is celebrated -- even those that do not really exist (like the census workers). But still, nothing has happened. No real job growth. No surge in the economy. No feeling that Obama actually cares. this more than anything is Obama's biggest failure, the one from which he will not be able to hide.