Much like a medical condition that starts in an acute stage Obamaitis has transitioned into a chronic condition.

When this occurs in the medical profession, they take extraordinary measures at the outset to cure the situation in the acute stage, but when it moves into the chronic stage they move into a control mode and the patient must adapt to a lifelong dealing with the condition.

This analogy is much like what happened in America since Obama has become President of the United States.

Time has run out for the blame game after 32 months in office and we have moved from acute Obamaitis to the chronic stage, because the policies put forth and the measures taken to cure the condition have failed.

Historically, it is known that no incumbent president has been reelected to office with a 7.8% unemployment rate.  We are currently at 9% by current federal measurements, which are not realistic because they don’t count those no longer collecting unemployment, the underemployed or those that have given up looking for a job.  The real number is much higher.

Because the historic number for recession unemployment reelection yesterday was resolved in the acute phase of the condition, and unlike the past we have moved into the chronic stage, it should not give Obama a pass nor reset the percentage, or give the electorate the side effect of malaise.

Obama’s failures go far beyond his inability to produce jobs.  His failures are multi-factorial: begin with leadership, he is a divider not a uniter; his socialistic domestic policy does not sit well with a nation that  leans to the right of center and supports a free enterprise system, which Obama does not seem to support; his foreign policy is not working, other than, his killing of those he refuses to call terrorists; his economic, financial, bailout, stimulus policies that were supposed to produce jobs, have been failures; his arrogant leadership style has seriously divided the executive branch from the legislative branch of government; and his apologies for US actions of the past, as a leader of this nation, are reprehensible.

I don’t think we as a nation should allow malaise to set into the chronic condition we face.  I think we should seek the Hope and Change Obama promised, but failed to deliver, in a new leader.