Former New Hampshire senator John Sununu blasts Obama and quotes Mike Tyson in today’s Boston Globe. The White House, he writes, has been “punched in the face.”

It’s been a tough couple of weeks for President Obama, one of those stretches where everything seems to go south at once. The economy is soft, his poll numbers are down, and Europe has the markets on edge; Romney is even beating him in the money race. What was once hailed as personal confidence — or condemned as arrogance — is long gone. Panic has set in, and it’s making Team Obama do strange and disturbing things.