Over at Hot Air Ed Morrissey duly notes that two more prospective would-be nominees have preemptively fled the albatross of being associated the Obama Administration.

Officially, Obama is just one flubbed Cabinet appointment away (at three, and counting) from equaling a dubious record of incompetence, a record currently held by the tenth President, John Tyler, who had four.

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Americans seem confused that Barack Obama is taking step after step that sends the stock market plunging ever lower and our Republic careening toward financial ruin. It confuses them, that this gifted orator would institute policies so obviously flawed. They have it in their hearts and heads that this President would want to stop the recession.

But why would he? Ever significant mentor Barack Obama has ever had, from Frank Marshall Davis to Saul Alinsky to Bill Ayers to Jeremiah Wright, has been driven by the thought of punishing America, of ripping it apart and reforging it to their liking.

Should it be any surprise at all than a man so shaped would function exactly as he was led?

The more Barack Obama can wreck the economy, the more he can turn individuals—and some states—into destitute big government dependents. As his Chief of Staff noted, they have every intention of seizing the opportunity that comes with this financial crisis.

Sadly, for all those poor souls who thought gifted teleprompter reading skills made the most radical liberal and least experienced Senator competent to be President, it is forcing them into dependency that he needs more than their goodwill. Its only going to get worse folks, and it's going to get worse by design.

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Not that most of you haven't already started coming to that conclusion yourselves.

I don't know why so many people have put their blind faith into a man who has phenomenal public-speaking skills, but who has never had a prominent real-world job.

Barack Obama has never been in charge of anything even as substantial as a Cub Scout troop den, and it shows.

Perhaps Americans are in denial, clinging to an illusion to simply avoid taking responsibility for allowing themselves to be duped into voting for a man big enough for a television screen, but woefully too small, too inconsequential in substance, for the Presidency.

The market is less forgiving.

And we're all paying the price.

Update: How petty. Not to mention a transparent sop to the netroots to keep them distracted, so they won't turn on him for his obvious and growing inadequacies.

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