“Give the President a break: he’s trying to learn how to run the country as fast as he can. For an untested, half-term Senator with no executive experience, he isn’t doing half bad.”

You’re right. He isn’t doing “half-bad”, he’s doing all bad!

His comment that he cannot worry about the “fits and starts” of the stock market was just plain dumb. Baby boomers, many of whom are on the verge of retirement, have their money in the market. State and municipal pensions are in the market. Insurance annuities are in the market. Over half of the country owns stock. Since Obama has been elected there has been tens of trilions of dollars lost in equity values. Wealth has vanished. People can’t retire, which would open up jobs for younger workers. And all he can say is “fits and starts” don’t concern me?

It’s bad.