Now, Obama As Pontius Pilate

Barack Obama has made it clear that he has no intention of acting like Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but increasingly, it looks as though he's following the path of Pontius Pilate.

Just listen to what the President had to say to the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce Feb. 19, about the unemployment crisis. (Keep in mind that Nevada's unemployment rate is over 13 percent, and its foreclosure rate one of the highest in the nation.)

"[People] say, 'Why isn't the government doing more to create jobs?'

"Now, Harry [Reid] and I understand that's politics. But putting politics aside, what I believe, and what I know you believe, is that the true engine of job creation and economic expansion in this country has never been found in the halls of Congress or in the corridors of the White House. America's economic success begins elsewhere, in more humble setting—in garages and basements and rented storefronts.

"It begins when a worker decided to leave her job to be her own boss; when an inventor makes his first sale on the way to his first million; when an innovator sees a product that could be better or a service that could be provided more smartly; when an entrepreneur takes a change on an idea that just might fail, but might also change the world."

He might as well have said he was washing his hands of the fate of tens of millions of Americans who can't find work, and may be living in someone's basement or garage. Does this man's depravity have a lower limit?