Well, maybe not.

The Scott Brown win in Massachusetts made him realize what the problem is. Yup, he gleaned from this jaw dropping win by a Republican in the bastion of ‘blueness’ that he wasn’t close enough to the people’s message…and that they crave even more change…and that they’re still reeling from the bad policies of the previous eight years. In remarks made to George Stephanopoulos during an interview for “ABC World News”,  Obama said:

“People are angry and they are frustrated. Not just because of what’s happened in the last year or two years, but what’s happened over the last eight years.”

I’m not kidding you; Obama blames George W. Bush for REPUBLICAN Scott Brown’s stunning election. You simply can’t make this stuff up!

Obama better not toe the waters of tarot card or tea leaf reading once we ‘retire’ him in 2013. It’s readily apparent that he doesn’t have a grasp for even the most painfully obvious — that the election of Scott Brown was a direct repudiation of Obama’s policies and agenda. Sure, Obama enjoys a cachet and certain personal popularity, but the majority of Americans have no stomach for his progressive/socialist policies.

I don’t know about the rest of you, but this incessant carping and grousing about the previous administration is beyond tiring. Insofar as I remember, Obama has been the chief executive for (now) more than a year. Sure, he did inherit a terrible financial situation (but he and the Democrats aren’t absolved as it was almost entirely of their own making), but he has spent trillions of our dollars to attempt to make things better, so his stamp and his mark are now on the economy.

And what he and the majority Democrats have done hasn’t help our country’s situation by any measurable economic metric. So, Obama has had one poorly performing year by any evaluation. Now, let’s look back at the eight year Bush administration…and with the exception of the second half of the last year when the financial institutions melted down, the remaining seven years were typified by low unemployment, an increasing stock market and stable home values and sales. I seem to remember a fairly prosperous stretch of years under George W. Bush.

But now we have a man in office who was smack-sure that he was the answer to our serious problems. He thought he could change our nation by sheer force of personality, and that his policies could bail out the foundering ship USS America. But we’ve lived through a year now of Obama’s vision of the new America, and it appears to frighten a vast number of Americans. His constantly evoking the  “previous failed administration” only serves to diminish his own. It might be red meat to the true believers and the Obama Kool Aid drinkers to cultivate this political fetish, but the rest of us desire a forward looking leader rather than a man staring fixated (with a whopper case of Bush Derangement Syndrome) in the rear view mirror.

It’s all about vision and nothing to do with hindsight. You threw your hat into the ring to lead, so do it!

President Obama, it’s time to fess up and take the hit on this. The Massachusetts senatorial election was a more-than-obvious repudiation of your policies. People are willing to give you, the man, a break and wish you success in future endeavors — as president, your success is OUR success. But in terms of your policies and your big government agenda, we’d rather a more reasonable approach. Like less spending, less restrictions and like being allowed to conduct our business unfettered by the intrusion of the federal government. Simply put, we like the Constitution and would like a government that is willing to obey and adhere to it’s precepts.

The sooner you’re willing to admit this fact to yourself and to the American people, the sooner you can get on the road to recovery and enlightenment.

But I for one won’t hold my breath until this happens…