Writer Jamie Malanowski gets to the heart of the matter when he says that if Obama loses, his refusal to prosecute the criminals at the big banks will be a major cause of this:

This much is clear: if President Obama loses this election, the failure to hold financial titans legally, financially and morally responsible for this financial meltdown will be the factor that will have cost him re-election.

I would argue that this was is also much of the reason for the 2010 debacle.

Malanowski talks about bravery, and how Obama has the courage to take down bin Laden, but not the courage to face the banksters.

I don’t think that this is a a matter of courage, but a matter of tribalism.

I am not making a Kenyan Muslim reference here, but rather an Ivy League reference.

I think that Barack Obama (Columbia and then Harvard Law) is simply unwilling to confront the old boy network which he joined when he went to college.