Obama failed to be the leader we needed.

Read Paul Krugman's column, Paralysis at the Fed, published in The New York Times on August 12, 2010

And read Bob Herbert's column, Fire and Imagination, published in The New York Times on August 13, 2010

I suspect these are a couple of the "professional" liberals that Joe Gibbs was talking about.

As Congressman Alan Grayson said (to paraphrase), "Gibbs is a Bozo, a clown", while Krugman and Herbert have been right on the money since the beginning of this catastrophic collapse of our economy.

It's simple, we needed a job creation program that was "a call for shared sacrifice and a great national mission to rebuild the United States in a way that would create employment for millions and establish a gleaming new industrial platform for the great advances of the 21st century," to quote Bob Herbert.

Obama failed to deliver, and now it's too late. It will take another two years to get to the next "leadership" election, and then at least another year to enact the substantial change we need—if it happens at all—during which time we will have condemned millions of families to the poverty and despair of joblessness ... and the accompanying setback in the skills development of our labor force that work provides ... on our way to becoming more like Mexico than Canada.