He takes the country from a $1.3 trillion deficit to one of $13 trillion, takes unemployment to 17 % in real numbers, yet has the audacity to stand before his ‘brothers’ and asked black leaders to ‘guard the change’ he was delivering for America in the upcoming mid-term elections.

If this isn’t pure rhetoric of duplicitousness sprinkled with the likes of mendacity, delivering a message to the likes of his impression of an audience of ignorance, I just don’t know what President Obama was thinking when he served up his ‘pig in the poke’ message last night to the Congressional Black Caucus?

He said to black leaders ahead of the November elections, “I need everybody here to go back to your neighborhoods and your workplaces, to your churches, and barbershops.  Tell them we have more work to do.  Tell them we can’t wait to organize.  Tell them that the time for action is now.”

It was the fire and brimstone of the old Chicago style political organizer to try and recapture the enthusiasm that brought him to the White House with false promises to an audience that polls show that African-Americans were much less likely to vote this year than whites.

It was a deliberate effort by the first black president to try to recapture the enthusiasm, that has been lost by all segments of Americans, with good cause, that helped him win the White House in 2008 with the duplicity of rhetoric.

“It’s not surprising,” he said “that a lot of people may not be feeling that energized or that engaged right now.”

I wonder how he came to that brilliant conclusion when the economy is tanking, but the number of his family vacations are exponentially increasing, and he intermittently, between golf rounds, touts the plight of the middle class, as the poverty level is increasing?

Obama said, “The last election was a changing of the guard – now we need to guard the change.”

Perhaps Obama is feeling the heat in 2010, two years before his personal concerns of 2012?

He is feeling the heat with good cause because he knows that Republicans could make big gains in November as high unemployment and slowing growth turns voters away from Obama’s Democrats, potentially costing them control of Congress.

The Bush blame game has worn thin and perhaps he is now better understanding of what Harry said years ago that the ‘buck stops’ in the not so then ‘fawn’-ing redecorated Oval office.