SNAP! Michael Brenner of the Huffington Post- can you imagine. It's just a matter of time before they all admit it.

On issue after issue, Barack Obama has shown a strong reluctance to challenge established thinking and to confront powerful interests. Just the opposite. He instinctively tips his hat to every establishment he encounters -- be it Wall Street, the military, the intelligence community, or the health care industry. He is little more aggressive in pressing Congress. Obama is demonstrably someone whose loud bark is not followed but much bite. Retreat from positions boldly declared has become the hallmark of his administration. At times, the retreat follows brief skirmishes. At other times, it is preemptive -- prompted by skirmishes in the president's own mind.

This is the singular Obama style evident on major domestic issues. The process begins with a firm statement of the problem, a clarion call for action, and a pledge to force change. Then, there is the period of eerie calm -- no plan is unveiled, no campaign strategy executed. There ensues an opaque, slow-motion free-for-all involving a fractured Congress, advocates, lobbies and the media with the White House staff operating in the shadows behind the scenes. Among the protagonists are the very parties that are the cause of the problem.

The very idea of a compelling national interest gets lost in the melee. Obama makes brief public appearances punctuated by further proclamations of the imperative to act, still without any specifics or sustained effort. Whatever comes out of this muddle is declared historic and promising. Thus the ramshackle approach taken toward the financial crisis.

Well, what do you know. The Huff Po is calling bullsh@t on Obama. Finally someone over there has pulled their head out of Arianna's ass. It's par for the course with Obama, it's all part of his illness. He's a flim flam man, selling the cure-all magic elixir.

I knew this Country was in trouble when the media glorified his abs, and crowned him our "Most Fit President" because they caught a few shots of him on a boogie board, between chain smoking Newports. The hypocrisy of it all makes me want to punch myself in the face, hard.