Part of being a leader is recognizing when you’ve made a mistake, taking responsibility and learning from it.  Barack Obama is incapable of doing this -- taking responsibility -- when it comes to our economy.  I will explain why in just a moment .. but first I want you to see what he told a crowd in Iowa on his BlunderBus tour.  It is just so very typical Barack Obama:

"We had reversed the recession, avoided a depression, gotten the economy moving again.  But over the last six months we've had a run of bad luck." 

He then goes on to name the uprisings in the Middle East, the tsunami in Japan and the debt crisis in Europe .. blah blah blah.

Even if Obama had a string of “bad luck” over the last few months, what was happening the other 26 months of his presidency?  I’ll tell you what was happening … he was busy increasing federal spending by 24%, he was busy implementing trillions of dollars in new regulations, and he was busy growing the dependency class of our society. 

Listen to the small businessmen and women out there --- the ones who are producing 80% of the new jobs in this weak economy.  What are THEY saying? 

• They are unsure of the regulatory costs of Obamacare.

• They don’t know what their tax structure is going to look like in two years.

• They are being buried under a mudslide of new and costly regulations from Washington.

• They’re concerned that Obama has increased our national debt more than all of the presidents that proceeded him, and that after increasing our annual budget by almost 25%, he can’t find 2% in cuts he can make. 

• They’re concerned about the EPA new role in business expansion – and the classification of Carbon Dioxide – something that exists naturally in the atmosphere and something that we cannot live without – as a pollutant.

• Small businessmen are upset and concerned with Obama’s focus on a government controlled economy – where the government decides where the new jobs will be and which industries will grow, and which industries will be maneuvered into bankruptcy.

• They’re concerned about the Dodd/Frank consumer finance regulation bill – what it will do to their businesses and what it will cost them.

• They’re concerned about increasing union power and whether or not they are going to have to eventually face Obama’s forced unionization (card check) bill.

• They’re upset that the Obama NLRB is attacking companies that relocate in states where you can’t be forced to join a union to get a job.

All of this, and Obama says that the economy has just run into a spot of bad luck.  The small business owners have much to say, and Obama responds with “Well, if it weren’t for that tsunami in Japan ….”

And ObamaBots are buying it! 

America’s “bad luck,” if you will, is that generations of welfare-state Democrats in power have created an electorate that was dumb as to put this toxic leftist into office.