Chris Cillizza is wondering if the reason Obama isn’t so popular is because the country is just plain broken. Like Obama would have been an awesome president decades ago, but now the media is too mean and there are blogs and stuff and it’s not that Obama can’t succeed, it’s that no one can. Best of the Web found stuff similar to this written about Carter in 1980. If a liberal is failing in the presidency, then obviously the presidency must just be broken. What other possible explanation could there be? Obama had a majority in the House and a filibuster proof majority in the Senate, and things didn’t turn out super awesome. The only explanation is that the country failed its politicians some how. Something in this country must have changed. Kids are fatter, so maybe that’s it. It’s childhood obesity. Obama would have been the best president ever but kids are just too fat for that to happen.

Liberals would be a lot less stressed out if they just recognized the fact that Obama is an inept failure and that him being voted out of office is just the natural flow of democracy — you don’t reelect failures. Then they wouldn’t have to twist themselves in knots trying to square the circle of Obama being super awesome yet things going so poorly. Relax, dudes; he sucks, move on.