Sadder and sadder. Obama could have been the greatest President ever. Now he'll be a single termer like Carter.

I think his ego was a big problem. He really thought that he would heal the partisan divide.

But also he didn't understand that the partisan divide wasn't the problem. While progressives are hardly perfect, the right in this country is detestable. The GOP is the problem. Work with them? Get around them as best you can.

But Barry has strangely turned his back on his friends right down the line. On national security, the environment, gay rights he has been lukewarm at best.

But his undoing is the economy. When he came to office, he was told that he needed a stimulus package of 1.5T and he would have one chance to get it right. Instead the great compromiser settled for half of what we needed.

These next few years are going to be long, sad years for many in this country.

Been awhile. Friday's job numbers would have been about average for Bush, but the supposedly liberal press were at pains to deflate the significance of the numbers in discussing the number of census workers hired, and the pent up hiring due to earlier snow storms. Why does the press hate America?

But average for Bush would be a negative number, so when I say average for Bush I mean prior to the big meltdown... and of course after the earlier meltdown. So during that period between meltdowns during the (not so much) Bush boom.

I was watching MSNBC today. They were talking about the presidents trip to the dark side.

Has any president ever done anything like this? I cannot recall any effort of this sort. And yet as historically significant as this is, the corporate news is strangely silent about it.

I've been very disappointed in Obama these last couple weeks. But this effort to bridge the partisan divide is unprecedented. The union is in sad shape, but at least Obama seems to have some idea of the cause.