There are a lot of presidents who have made a lot of mistakes. Most of them with good intentions, some not. We now have a president who in policy and voice is exceptionally radical, and extremely inexperienced (having been in high public office for only about 4 years). We're embroiled in a health care debate which is threatening to split the country in half in a way not seen since the civil war.

We also have a president who quite frankly refuses to shut up, and this is a major problem. Health Care is a domestic issue, and the president's purview has traditionally been foreign policy. This means that right now we don't have a foreign policy to speak of, and if the president's numbers sink much lower we may not have one until 2012. For the first time in his presidency, Barack Obama's approval is under 50%, his disapproval is 50%. In a few weeks his approval numbers will look just like George W Bush's in '06. George W Bush though had already long since established his foreign policy initiatives (agree with them or not) by this point. Barack Obama has not.

There is a valid concern here and now that the United States will be incapable of creating a foreign policy, despite his popularity overseas if his popularity at home wanes further. It is a probable if his numbers dip below 35% that we'll all be eating lame duck before mid-terms, and there will be no mechanism by which President Obama will be able to generate foreign policy from nothing.

So why do we care? In the event of a war overseas, of a genocide, of Iran or North Korea continuing their Nuclear Weapons projects, we will be essentially powerless to stop it. Instead of writing stories supporting the foreign policy, our press (even as friendly as they've been with the president) will write stories instead questioning his true motives.