To hell with blaming Barack Obama for Wisconsin.

[JDPriestly]

18. Ridiculous.

Obama came in with a huge majority of the voters and a Democratic Congress behind him. He focused on a corporate-sponsored health insurance reform plan that will benefit only a small minority of voters until 2014 -- if the Republicans don't kill it before that.

Had he focused immediately on the economy -- had he fought unemployment with a huge infusion of government money into jobs programs right away. Had he come down hard on the bankers and ended the derivatives excesses, Democrats would be easily elected not only in Wisconsin but across the nation.

Obama has a few months to get a new team and correct his course. That's all he has.

I like him and wish him well. But a president who acts like Hoover and governs like Hoover -- trying to satisfy the 1% without losing the support of the 99% cannot succeed. Obama has to decide whose side he is on -- that of ordinary, laboring, struggling people or the cheats at the top.

The only thing that can defeat the money of the 1% is the trust of the American people in those who oppose the 1%. Obama has not earned that trust yet.

Sorry but the emperor has no clothes. I call it like I see it. You can go into denial if you want, but we have a lot of work to do between now and November, and we can't do it without Obama's leadership.