America’s mainstream media is hard at work on the Obama reelection effort. Nonstop reporting on the Herman Cain allegations, the break-up of the European Union and Occupy Everything is quietly building a playing field or political environment to empower Obama’s excuses.
Here is how it works.
The media has taken a great field of GOP candidates and made them look like a sequel to the Hollywood blockbuster Dumb and Dumber.  Each success frontrunner has been mowed down to size by outlandish and journalistically unethical reporting, combined with a nonstop series of debates that produce highlight reels of gotcha questions these so-called reporters never ask Obama.
Obama in contrast simply travels the world at government expense, teleprompter in hand giving well-crafted speeches written by others.
The softball questions lofted his way are intended more to boost him than share with Americans the true story of how tough it really is living in the Obama socialist economy.
So we will try to ask some questions here the media should be asking Obama in person.
Mr. Obama: The number of people who fell into poverty in 2010, 2.6 million people, was the largest recorded increase since records were first kept in 1959, the number of “poor” has risen from 11.3 percent in 2000 to 15.1 percent today, do you think you could do a better job of stewarding the economy?
Mr. Obama: More than 45 million Americans live on food stamps. Since the Democrats took control of Congress in 2007, the number of people on food stamps has jumped 74 percent; current projections say that approximately 50 percent of all American children will live on food stamps at some point before he or she reaches 18. How do you intend to empower people to get off these government programs before we have a debt crisis like Europe?
Mr. Obama: One in six Americans now depends on  some kind of federal anti-poverty program; food pantries and soup kitchens are serving 46 percent more Americans than they were in 2006; there may be as many as 500,000 American children who are homeless in our country today. How do you explain the continuing collapse in America’s economy as more of your legislative agenda has been made into law?
Mr. Obama: When you see that your prescription for what ails the economy is failing when will you change direction?
Instead of forcing Obama to give Americans answers, we have a media that focuses on destroying any Republican that has the potential to really challenge him.
They report heavily on stories that empower Obama’s biggest excuses. Excuses such as: this disaster was caused by George W. Bush don’t blame me, Europe’s problems have become our problems, this is global, don’t blame me. And the classic, if only the wealthy paid their fair share we wouldn’t have these problems, don’t blame me.
The common message shared by Obama and his minions in the media is clear.
Obama doesn’t own this economic apocalypse.
Collectively they shout, it is someone else’s fault. In the meantime the economic collapse is morphing into a cataclysmic, systemic failure.
In the end we almost expect Obama to smile as he chants in unison with the Occupy crowd, “our failure is America’s fault.”
(Floyd and Mary Beth Brown are best selling authors and speakers. To comment on this column, e-mail browns@caglecartoons.com.)