THE MAN MAY NEED PILLS – AT 7:19 P.M. ET:  Is the president really losing it?  Some of his recent statements take us all the way to creepsville and back.  Consider this, from the New York Daily News:

WASHINGTON - President Obama, in a stark and striking comparison, said the devastating impact of the BP disaster on the national psyche "echoes 9/11."

No, no, no, Mr. The One.  Americans can tell the difference between a major accident and a wilful enemy attack. 

The endlessly spewing oil rig off the Gulf Coast - like the terror attacks of 2001 - will influence the nation's future long after the crisis passes, the President said in a provocative Oval Office interview with Politico.

So will a lot of other things influence the nation's future.  Let's take back the words, shall we?

"In the same way that our view of our vulnerabilities and our foreign policy was shaped profoundly by 9/11, I think this disaster is going to shape how we think about the environment and energy for many years to come," Obama added in language that underscored his new sense of urgency about the disaster.

The interview, conducted Friday, was released Sunday - and sparked an instant debate among some 9/11 family members.

And most were pretty appalled:

...Jack Lynch, whose firefighter son Michael was killed in 2001, felt Obama misspoke.

"To compare an environmental accident, if that's what you call it, to a premeditated terrorist attack is ridiculous," he said. "Politicians have no sense of reality."

And, sometimes, no sense of propriety.   We don't casually compare things to a day on which nearly 3,000 Americans were murdered. 

The president is still trying to find is voice on the oil spill.  Better he should find his mind.

June 14, 2010