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Keeping up with the events of the past several weeks and making sense of them has been an exhausting exercise, one that is in the end is futile as it is all sound and fury with very little actual action. However if one steps back and boils down and renders off the dross there is an interesting story developing here.

Last week the man who invented the modern Las Vegas, Steve Wynn lambasted Obama thoroughly saying in affect that he is a "wet blanket" on the economy and is a Socialist who is all about "redistribution of the wealth" These comments were not lost on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, because it has been the Casino/Resort Operators that have been stalwart Reid and Democrat campaign donors and supporters. Who in this last election cycle saved Reid's bacon from being in the unemployed politician line. Since Harry is well aware of which side his bread is buttered, it is no coincidence that Reid along with friends who have heard similar complaints have come up with a Debt Ceiling plan that does not include the central Obama tenet of "raising revenues" and for that matter does not include Obama at all. One might say Harry and friends made a circumvention of President Obama.It was quite interesting to see just how fast Obama endorsed that Bill, for Obama was not about to be thrown under the bus voluntarily.

With that as background the Obama speech struck one as ringing hollow in particular with the same old shopworn blame Bush routine. Obama hit on all his usual voice modulated emotional tug at the heart strings of "hard working American tired from a days work turning on the television only to see how dysfunctional Congress has become." cliches. Further Obama revealed his true blue ideological colours of being a true Revolutionary or as some like to say of him aa being a "trans formative figure" when he says, "that he gets to keep money that he doesn't need." This implies that he would be just fine without having any money beyond what he would need for daily subsistence.

The second impression was that Obama is a man who was stepping up to the microphone to claim a leadership role for something he had not done. This is in a sense his trying to put himself back in the game and all Obama has left is the same tired old class warfare rhetoric that has already been left behind. Thus Obama might have become the first American President that has abdicated his Presidential responsibility of leading the nation while still warming the seat in the Oval office.