Four More Years of This Exhausted Nonsense?

Here is your president's closing pitch. Feel the enthusiasm:

What are your favorite laugh lines?

1) "The trillion in spending we've already cut"

2) "nation-building right here at home"

3) "it's time for a new economic patriotism"

4) every sentence involving a precise number of future whatzits his administration will deliver

The consolation prize of a prospective second Obama administration is that he will likely be as impotent and reviled as the 2005-08 George W. Bush. Given the president's relentlessly disappointing economic policies, that's a good thing.