Here we go again. Another puff piece on the president's poor performance has graced the pages of the New York Times. Each time the president's numbers begin to sink in the polls, he sends his spinmeister, David Axelrod, to an interview with mainstream media. Predictably, the interviewer gets around to Axelrod's personal life. "I have dealt with a lot of ‘real stuff' in my life," he said, referring to his daughter's long struggle with epilepsy, his father's suicide and his wife's bout with breast cancer. "The disapprobation of some folks in Washington doesn't seem very meaningful."Who among us hasn't dealt with difficulties, even tragedies? Yet, most of us eventually stop blaming the past and others, and get on with becoming adults.As a child, when I tried to garner sympathy from my dad for a plea which had no substance, I'd pout and cry. Without saying a word, he would rub his thumb together with his index finger. The gesture symbolized the playing of a tiny...(Read Full Post)