A left-wing journalist runs an IBD article about Americans losing their optimism.

And, once again, a Liberal gets it ass-backwards.

Americans haven’t lost their optimism…they’ve just lost faith in their government.

Incredibly, the author edges toward the truth (slow economic recovery), before sinking into the Liberal ideological swamp that brings lost-government-faith to the fore…

…by then claiming the economy’s improving (?*)…

…so it must be us stupid Americans, whose perceptions fail to comply.

Hastening to whitewash Obama’s failures, he notes “the problem is not of his making but the result of two decades of scorched-earth  politics”…but reality can’t be hidden.

Big government doesn’t have to dampen optimism, but the machinations of men within that leviathan ease or aggravate the situation…and that’s where Obama has failed.

Obama didn’t make the problem…but his actions have aggravated it tremendously.

He’s taken ‘a shining city on a hill’…

…and turned it into a class-warfare fever swamp in a valley.

It could have been different, but Obama chose to make it so.

Liberals won’t see this…but you can’t awaken those who pretend they’re sleeping.

*(UPDATED to add link to today’s poor economic numbers)