OT: Sick today, and flipping through channels, I hit upon CNN and heard Wolf Blitzer ask if the honeymoon with Obama is basically over, and Gloria Borger said yes. Roland Martin looked disgruntled. Blitzer also quoted the article from Newsweek that slammed Obama.

Barack Obama is a great pretender. He constantly says he’s doing things that he isn’t, and he relies on his powerful rhetoric to obscure the difference …

Confidence (too little) and uncertainty (too much) are at the core of this crisis. All of Obama’s double-talk threatens to reduce the first and raise the second. Investors and traders have surely noticed the discrepancies between Obama’s words and actions.