Frank Rich on Obama growing a spine

"Neither in action nor in message is [Obama] in front of the anger roiling a country where high unemployment remains unchecked and spiraling foreclosures are demolishing the bedrock American dream of home ownership. The president is no longer seen as a savior but as a captive of the interests who ginned up the mess and still profit, hugely, from it."

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/opinion/24Rich.html