A s an artifact of the diminishment of President Barack Obama, it is hard to top his newly released pamphlet, “The New Economic Patriotism: A Plan for Jobs and Middle-Class Security.”

The plan purports, first, to be a plan, and second, to outline a second-term agenda distinct from his first-term agenda. It fails on both counts. It cobbles together his current policies with some ill-defined new bullet points to barely cover 20 pages largely devoted to nice pictures of the president.