The shrinking president

Jennifer Rubin notes our economic troubles and comments:

What say you, Mr. President? Ah, there’s a speech coming up in September. The chasm between the president’s agenda (and leadership skills) and the problems we face seems to widen with each passing day. The problem is not the Martha’s Vineyard vacation but the two and a half years that preceded it. The policy initiatives and the president himself seem too small for the challenges we face. He resorts to political stunts to fill the time and directs blame to Congress, the Republicans or whatever else he can think of. As our problems deepen and expand, Obama’s stature shrinks. You wonder what will be left of him by November 2012.