President Obama’s State of the Union address theme was “An America Built to Last.” But his vision would be better described as an “An America Built to Be Last.” As the president asked us to be patient and keep drinking the same Kool-Aid he’s been serving up for three years, the New York Times reported that the Federal Reserve’s latest assessment of our economy is that “… a full recovery is years away.”

Even his most loyal constituency, black Americans, is losing patience. In Gallup’s latest tracking poll, black approval rate for Obama was 79 percent. This is 17 points under the 96 percent of blacks who voted for him in 2008, and the first time that black approval has dropped under 80 percent.