Phil Hearn, Hattiesburg

President Obama is the ultimate bull in a china shop when it comes to governing at home or conducting foreign policy — and he carries his shop around with him just in case he runs out of things to break.

Obama’s feckless administration not only gives new meaning to “the gang that couldn’t shoot straight,” but the chosen-one-in-chief rides side-saddle into every confrontation.

While the president stumbles from one debacle to another, the greatest country on earth sinks into an ever-expanding abyss of domestic turmoil, corruption, deception, economic anemia, self-indulgence, over-regulation and global emasculation.

Where the rubber meets the road is the same place Obama’s left-wing ideology melds with gross mismanagement, fanned by a compliant mainstream media that ignores or under-reports every failure of leadership.

Obamacare, Benghazi cover-up, IRS abuses, VA mismanagement, journalistic eavesdropping, “Fast and Furious” gun-running, Mexican border chaos, Russian expansion, China’s military buildup, Iran’s march to a nuclear weapon, the bloodbath in Syria, disintegration of conditions in Iraq, deterioration of relations with Israel, and the recent exchange of five high-ranking Taliban terrorists for a U.S. Army deserter.

All these have occurred on Obama’s watch — the fruits of hope and change.