When all else fails, and we as a nation are now at that critical point of no return, it’s time for President Obama to pull out all the stops, and I would suggest he bring out the Ouija Board.

Perhaps he should extend his present rainy 6th vacation of the year in Martha’s Vineyard and spend some time to play this ancient board game with the first family.

After all, it might prove to be more productive than a soggy foggy beach, reading or playing basketball with the guys at an indoor gym.  It also could be fun for the first family including Bo, the first dog, with paws- in which might provide more answers to the nation’s job picture, real estate doldrums and economic woes, than all the Czars attached to his Cabinet.

I don’t know about you and your connection to this board game, but my parents bought a Ouija Board and we often played the game, rather than listen to The Shadow or FBI on the radio.

I was always amazed at how that heart-shaped piece of wood would move over the board.  You had to touch it lightly, but I could never determine whether my partner was moving the piece of wood, rather than me.  In retrospect, perhaps it was a lot like politics, in its movements.

Ouija is a talking board which spells out messages.  The board is marked with letters, numbers and other symbols to communicate with spirits.  The planchette – the small heart-shaped piece of wood – spells out the message during a seance.

Can you ever think of a better time for a seance than now?

The board was introduced in the late 1890′s and was considered to be a harmless parlor game.

That is until mainstream Christian – something Obama claims to be – religions and some occultists associated its use with the threat of demonic possession and some have cautioned followers not to use Ouija boards.

While Ouija believers feel the paranormal or supernatural is responsible for Ouija’s action, I would rather believe that it is more parsimoniously explained by unconscious movements of those controlling the pointer, a psychological phenomenon known as the ideomotor effect.

Whatever, Mr. President play the game.  Let Bo have paws-on – we couldn’t do any worse!