Barack Obama's Forty Days And Forty Nights

Okay, I'll admit it...this last month Barack Obama has not shone. His lack of public outrage and sympathy for the perpetrators and victims of the Gulf Spill, now being called 'Obama's Katrina', has, at least in the public's perception, been disappointing at best. While in private he's railed at his staff, telling them angrily to "Plug the damn leak.", he hasn't allowed his private emotions to be made public. But this is one of those times, like Roosevelt's speech on December 8th ,1941 or even George W. Bush's address from atop the ruins of the Twin Towers (despite how that turned out), where Americans actually do want to know their leader is just as capable of emotion and anger as they are. It hasn't been his only political misstep recently, but it may be his worst.