You see, FM, again, I'm not arguing that things are not going to hell in a handbasket in Obamaland. But your take on "causality", without mentioning one goddam intervening variable (let alone the thousand that are in effect) is so bluntly beneath even politics 101 that you make a mockery of the word "analysis." You are arguing that this very bright black Harvard graduate is, in effect, putting the gun to his own head. You dismiss with images of excrement any attempt to bring reason and understanding to what is happening in that totally mad environment.
I will continue to list the many, many instances of madness, if that's all right with you, while you go on predictably insisting that he is guilty of them all. :)
I'm not arguing that at all George. Your blind worship of a speech maker and your own lack of any sort of analysis, even grade school, prevent you from getting past your school girl crush on a political rock star you idolize while blaming everyon and anyone but himself for failing to perform the music on his records live in concert.
I am arguing, quite clearly, Obama is a fraud. A fraud who has done more to undermine American democracy than any other US president. He is a gift to the oligarchs, the corporate rulers, and the Republican thugs. Gerge W. Bush set America on a downward path of a declining empire and Obama has his foot on the nation's back. What Bush did for American prestige, Obama has done for American democracy.
But you swoon and swain, George. Maybe be'll blow you a kiss.