OUT OF TOUCH – AT 11:05 A.M. ET:  It is stunning to see how out of touch President Obama is.  Moreover, he doesn't seem to understand, or care about, the workings of a democracy.  From The Politico:

President Barack Obama, in a wide-ranging, reflective interview with Barbara Walters, staunchly defended his controversial policies — including sweeping health care reforms and the massive economic stimulus package — as bold but necessary steps to help transform an economy that was at the brink of collapse to one that is "growing."

"The notion that somehow you can only do one thing at once is simply not true," Obama told Walters in the interview, which aired on ABC Friday evening. "The fact is, that we stabilized the financial system ... we turned an economy that was contracting to one that was growing. We have added a million jobs over the last year to the economy."

And despite the intense criticism and political costs, the president said the health care overhaul will be "a lasting legacy that I am extraordinarily proud of."

COMMENT:  It's as if the opinions of the American people count for nothing.  Mr. Obama may be "extraordinarily proud" of the new health law, but Americans don't like it, and have said so repeatedly, most recently in this month's congressional elections.  They never wanted an overhaul.  They wanted specific reforms.  They should have been listened to, and respected.

But never mind.  Who are those peasants out there?  Why, they didn't even go to the right colleges.  Who are they to tell the Obama Palace what to do?

The president talks of adding a million jobs, but the unemployment rate is still over 10 percent, and even his own administration's employment predictions are discouraging.

And spending is out of control, another factor that American voters responded to on election day.  Our citizens can do the math.  We cannot sustain this spending and this debt. 

Mr. Obama seems to think he was given an unlimited mandate in 2008.  He was not.  And any illusion in that regard should have been dispelled by his party's loss of 63 seats in the House just weeks ago.

We expected a White House political operation as good as the one we saw in the 2008 campaign.  Instead, the White House is isolated and drifting.  There is only one man who can fix that, and so far he doesn't seem to realize that he has a problem.

November 27, 2010