This is the president of the USA?

Here is the way the Obama-friendly AP begins its report on what the president said to a crowd at a fund raiser on the West Coast: "President Barack Obama charged Sunday that the GOP vision of government would 'fundamentally cripple America,' as he tried out his newly combative message on the liberal West Coast."

I find the comments disgusting. I know we live in a world where each side calls the other names and questions their motives, but this is the president of the United States. As Obama used to like to say, not the red states or the blue states but the United States of America. How can the president claim that his opponents are our to cripple America? It is so unpresidential, so base, so wrong in so many ways.

The truly humorous thing about this attack is that it is just part of the new Obama. For three months all we heard from Obama was about the need for compromise. Now he says there is no place for compromise. He used to claim to be the adult in the room. Now he is yelling names at the other side like an eight year old. He used to have the respect that came from his office, but he has squandered that by sinking into the morass. In other words, by making his base happy with these nasty attacks on the Republicans, Obama is poisoning the well at which the indepedents get their water. He is revving up about a third of the voters only to make sure that he gets hardly any of the other two thirds. It is incredibly poor politics.

I am guessing that some time soon Obama will realize the folly of his current pose and try to become Mr. Compromise again. Good luch with that. There just is not enough time until the election for the folks out there to forget what he is doing now. In his push to get votes, Obama is guaranteeing that he will not get enough.

I am not longer going to say that Obama has to go. No, from now on, the mantra is "Obama is on his way out!"