SPEAKING OF INCOMPETENCE – AT 8:21 A.M. ET:  Obama's, that is.  Dick Morris points out that Obama's incompetence, especially in handling the oil spill, is now laid bare before us, and is even cutting into his approval ratings among Democrats.  From The Hill:

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.

Well said.  In the minds of the Obamans, the oil spill isn't a tragedy, but an opportunity to impose their radical energy agenda. 

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.

And...

Meanwhile, the nation watches nervously as the same policies Obama has brought to our nation are failing badly and publicly in Europe.

And...

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.

This is pretty strong stuff, but I'm afraid it's true.  We have elected a lemon, and we don't have a manufacturer's guarantee:

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

...It is Jimmy Carter all over again.

COMMENT:  We must ask whether the president is resigned to being a one-term leader, and is already fading out.  If he loses badly in the midterms, his legislative program will die, and he will still be a net negative in the polls. 

Barack Obama is good at one thing – running for office.  That may still sustain him, but the Church of the Heavenly Barack seems to be losing parishioners, and its divinity school has fewer and fewer students. 

Now, what kind of a messiah is that?

June 2, 2010