The subject du jour is Obama’s bad fortnight, starting with the bad jobs report Monday, going on to the fact that Mitt Romney out-raised him, going on to the loss in the Wisconsin state recall election, topped off with the assertion on Friday that the private sector was doing just “fine.”

This too is fine, but it misses the much bigger story: Obama along with his friends, the left, have a disastrous three and a half years behind them, of losses (many elections), wins-that-were-losses (the health care reform bill) and misjudged forward passes (Wisconsin and Occupy), in which they missed the ball, fumbled and saw it get lost in the weeds. Let us look back at this series of blunders, and see how the story played out: