Chicago: The vacation of choice for Presidents everywhere!

As the furor over Arizona's Immigration law continues, President Barack Obama once again showed his incredible lack of understanding of the American people by ordering 1200 members of the National Guard to "support positions" at the southern U.S. border, where they will not actually be involved in the physical duties of helping to stop drug trafficking or illegal immigration. Then he takes off to Chicago on vacation, at the same time promising to skip the traditional Veteran's Day Memorial Service at Arlington National Cemetary, and ducking out on any leadership responsibility involving the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

I mean, how many Presidential duties can this guy shirk at one time?

Or is there a bigger issue at hand? Consider: Is Barack Obama already so completely overwhelmed by his duties as President, that he's simply given up?

Perhaps being an obscure U.S. Senator from Illinois is looking pretty good to him right now. When know one knew who he was, no one was critical of him. He could could give speeches and get applause, he could travel from Illinois to Washington, D.C. and back, do nothing of real importance, and tell everyone what a fine job he was doing, and no one would question him. Because for the most part, the world didn't care.

Not any more. Now Barack Obama is playing on the world stage, as the leader of the most powerful nation on earth, and people are watching his every move. His ideologically hard left, big government stance on nearly every issue has proven to be stubbornly ineffective across a surprisingly wide range of situations. From unemployment, to the economy, to Afghanistan, to terrorism, to the border, to the oil spill in the gulf, Barack Obama just doesn't seem to know the right thing to do. Over and over again the Obama administration has taken wildly unpopular (if not downright reckless or unconstitutional) stances on issues from health care, to Guantanamo, to criminally trying foreign terrorists on U.S. soil, to bailouts and government takeovers of the auto industry, banking, and other private enterprises, to cap and trade legislation that's guaranteed to increase energy prices, to inaction on the border and in the Gulf of Mexico, to financial legislation, etc. etc.

Obama just stubbornly and blindly continues to blunder forth, despite the fact that it should be obvious to him by now that his perceived "mandate for change" wasn't nearly what he thought it was. It's easy, during a political campaign, to promise everyone that you are Ronald Reagan and John F. Kennedy all rolled into one. It's infinitely tougher to actually deliver a working governing strategy when you are, in fact, in no way like either of them. It's all gotta wear on a guy. Heck, when James Carville starts yelling at you like you're George W. Bush, it must be quite a blow to the ego!

And those falling approval ratings must be tough to digest for someone who's never, in his life, had to suffer the pains of harsh criticism.

So when the going gets tough, the tough.....go on vacation!