President Barack Obama recently tried to spin away from the results of his failed economic policies by claiming "there are always going to be bumps in the road to recovery." Seizing on this almost too easy opportunity to use the president's words against him, current GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney's team quickly produced an ad showing that unemployed and under-employed Americans are real people enduring real economic hardship not bumps in the road.

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Mr. Obama's failures combined with his tone-deaf response to their effects are proving that it is his administration that is the bump in the road; a temporary albeit painful experiment in overreaching government that, should it be allowed to continue, would surely bankrupt the United States of America and destroy our way of life.

While many in the media claim the current field of contenders for the GOP nomination is uninspiring, it is important to remember that Candidate Obama was nothing but inspiring. Soaring, repetitive rhetoric may be what one wants from a salesman; but the product they are selling must be worth the cost or that brand will fail and will be remembered as a sham, a con, maybe even a bump in the road toward quality and value.

And speaking of bumps, President Obama has lost the one he briefly enjoyed after the death of Osama bin Laden. His approval rating which rose to at or near 50% in the weeks following the killing is now back down to 46%. (source) Despite the victory lap he took afterwards, the American people seem to have realized that presidents don't kill terrorists, Navy SEALS kill terrorists.