Obama isn’t a lame duck; he’s a scapegoat…

It’s become a tradition in the presidential second term: the President’s popularity slides for whatever reasons, and everyone piles on, like in a mudwrestling competition—an appropriate metaphor, because the dialectic basically reduces to mudslinging. Bush suffered from this tradition; now it’s Obama’s turn. It’s almost laughable that he’s blamed for the Secret Services’ debacles, stock market plunges, the Ebola crisis, ISIS, the D68 enterovirus, global warming, and bad weather besotting the...