He is hitting pretty close to the mark...

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http://thehill.com/opinion/columnists/dick-morris/100913-obama-doesnt-
have-a-clue

Morris: Obama doesn’t have a clue
By Dick Morris - 06/01/10 07:03 PM ET 
  
Conservatives are so enraged at Obama’s socialism and radicalism that 
they are increasingly surprised to learn that he is incompetent as well. 
The sight of his blithering and blustering while the most massive oil 
spill in history moves closer to America’s beaches not only reminds one 
of Bush’s terrible performance during Katrina, but calls to mind Jimmy 
Carter’s incompetence in the face of the hostage crisis. 

America is watching the president alternate between wringing his hands 
in helplessness and pointing his finger in blame when he should be 
solving the most pressing environmental problem America has faced in the 
past 50 years. We are watching generations of environmental protection 
swept away as marshes, fisheries, vacation spots, recreational beaches, 
wetlands, hatcheries and sanctuaries fall prey to the oil spill 
invasion. And, all the while, the president acts like a spectator, 
interrupting his basketball games only to excoriate BP for its failure 
to contain the spill.

The political fallout from the oil spill will, indeed, spill across 
party and ideological lines. The environmentalists of America cannot 
take heart from a president so obviously ignorant about how to protect 
our shores and so obstinately arrogant that he refuses to inform himself 
and take any responsibility.

All of this explains why the oil spill is seeping into his ratings among 
Democrats, dragging him down to levels we have not seen since Bush 
during the pit of the Iraq war. Conservatives may dislike Obama because 
he is a leftist. But liberals are coming to dislike him because he is 
not a competent progressive. 

Meanwhile, the nation watches nervously as the same policies Obama has 
brought to our nation are failing badly and publicly in Europe. When 
Moody’s announces that it is considering downgrading bonds issued by the 
government of the United States of America, we find ourselves, suddenly, 
in deep trouble. We have had deficits before. But never have they so 
freaked investors that a ratings agency considered lowering its opinion 
of our solvency. Not since Alexander Hamilton assumed the states’ 
Revolutionary War debt has America’s willingness and ability to meet its 
financial obligations been as seriously questioned.

And the truth begins to dawn on all of us: Obama has no more idea how to 
work his way out of the economic mess into which his policies have 
plunged us than he does about how to clean up the oil spill that is 
destroying our southern coastline.

Both the financial crisis and the oil come ever closer to our shores — 
one from the east and the other from the south — and, between them, they 
loom as a testament to the incompetence of our government and of its 
president. 

And, oddly, to his passivity as well. After pursuing a remarkably 
activist, if misguided and foolhardy, agenda, Obama seems not to know 
what to do and finds himself consigned to the roles of observer and 
critic.

America is getting the point that its president doesn’t have a clue. 

He doesn’t know how to stop the oil from spilling. He is bereft of ideas 
about how to create jobs in the aftermath of the recession. He has no 
idea how to keep the European financial crisis contained. He has no 
program for repaying the massive debt hole into which he has dug our 
nation without tax increases he must know will only deepen the pit.

Some presidents have failed because of their stubbornness (Johnson and 
Bush-43). Others because of their character flaws (Clinton and Nixon). 
Still others because of their insensitivity to domestic problems (Bush-
41). But now we have a president who is failing because he is 
incompetent. It is Jimmy Carter all over again.

Who would have thought that this president, so anxious to lead us and so 
focused on his specific agenda and ideas, would turn out not to know 
what he is doing?

Morris, a former adviser to Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and President Bill 
Clinton, is the author of Outrage, Fleeced and Catastrophe. To get all 
of his and Eileen McGann’s columns for free by e-mail or to order a 
signed copy of their latest book, 2010: Take Back America — A Battle 
Plan, go to dickmorris.com. In August, Morris became a strategist for 
the League of American Voters, which is running ads opposing the 
president’s healthcare reforms. 

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