Breaking new records for second-term meltdowns, Barack Obama has entered a tailspin just five months after his re-coronation, beset by a flurry of woes.

His IRS and his Justice Department are caught in huge scandals. Benghazi at last has come back to bite him. “Lead from Behind” has led to a Middle East breakdown. And at this crucial time, his speech-making talents have seemed to desert him: He went to Berlin, where John Kennedy and then Ronald Reagan thrilled hundreds of thousands during the Cold War, and bored the hell out of 5,000 or so blas? Europeans, who had no idea what he was saying, or why.