I guess I didn’t state that quite right. Barry said “We’ve gone a bit “soft”. By “we” I thought he was talking about him and his regime in Washington. So, I was saying that I agree with him. The Obama regime has got “soft” in the head. Sorry for the confusion.
Yes, reminiscent of Carter’s “Malaise Speech”: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/carter-crisis-speech/