[ex-snook]

Thanks for your thoughts but there may be problems with your "the president needs to at least appear to be firmly in charge."

With apologies, we don't need an 'actor', we need results.

[FITZ]

After a ceremony at the White House on Wednesday to sign free trade agreements with Chile and Singapore,

This part doesn't make it look like he much cares if Americans have jobs. I guess talk is cheap, we'll see if he does anything to get jobs back in the USA or he's just going around signing free trade agreements that take Americans jobs away.