Michael Goldfarb: “Nine months in and Obama has nothing to show for his presidency.”

Well, nothing except the highest unemployment in a quarter century, the highest deficit and the biggest spending spree i the history of our country, and an administration plagued with corruption. But I guess those aren’t really so much accomplishments as they are Liberal Badges of Honor.

The IOC—despite the combined charisma of Barack and Michelle Obama and Oprah—just nixed Chicago’s bid to host the 2016 Olympics. That’s what direct, presidential diplomacy will get you. But we see the same woeful failure across the world. North Korea, Iran, Israel–there has been zero progress on any of these fronts despite all the White House spin to the contrary. In Washington, cap and trade has gone nowhere, health care reform has become health insurance reform and even that looks like it’s in trouble. Oh and then there’s the stimulus. The one great accomplishment of the Obama presidency: So many jobs created and saved and saved again that we only lost 263,000 more this month.