Most of us know people who are big fans of President Obama, or at least were big fans.

These days many Obama supporters have either changed their minds or gone to ground.

According to the polls, 70 % of the American people believe the country is on the wrong track.  And of course President Obama takes much of the blame for that.

Obviously the terror threat is page one this week, with the beheading of a second American by ISIS Nazis.

President Obama is in Wales, trying to rally NATO to fight terrorism and to restrain the Russian tyrant Putin.

But obviously, things are pretty much out of control at this point.

So the question then becomes, why has the president allowed terrorism and Putin to cause so much trouble?

Why?

The answer is partly speculative, but based on facts.

It is quite clear that the president is not strong in certain areas, like macroeconomics for example.  American workers are still earning less money than they did before he took office.

Mr. Obama has had six years to fix that.  He has failed.

On foreign affairs, the president also has problems.

He's basically reactive.  He allows bad agents to grow in strength until critical mass is reached.

To this day, the president is still not taking the fight to ISIS or to Putin.

He has been restrained to say the least.

The American media, which has a lot of emotion invested in President Obama, is now largely silent in defense of him.

Last night, Factor producers watched the prime time shows on CNN and MSNBC.

We could not find any of the hosts making excuses for President Obama's performance, as they usually do.

NBC News was one of the few to give the President some credit:

BRIAN WILLIAMS, NBC NEWS ANCHOR: “It is among the scariest threats our nation has faced since 9/11 and after the beheading of a second American now by ISIS, for all those who may be wondering if the U.S. is going to rise up, take the bait and get into the fight to root them out, the answer today from both the President and Vice President appeared to be clear and unambiguous.”

Most analysts disagree with Mr. Williams, saying that President Obama's response to ISIS has been timid and confusing.

Bernie Goldberg will take a look a bit later on.

Talking Points believes that President Obama's main political priority is social justice.

That's where his energies lie.

That's what Obamacare is all about.  He engages in class warfare, but not real warfare.

Secondly, he's big on climate change ... he cares about that.

An interesting recent report says the Arctic ice cap is actually growing now.

Be that as it may, global warming is an Obama priority.

The other stuff seems to be an annoyance to the president, and that's why the world is a mess.

Mr. Obama even says that the world is messy.

But it's your job Mr. President to make it less messy and to protect American citizens.

And right now the perception is the president is not doing a very good job on the messy front. 

All presidents have priorities and interests and passions.  The current president should expand his.

And that's the memo.