A Detailed and Disturbing Overview:  Joe Biden Looks Seriously Unwell.  All presidents since 1952 have used teleprompters, few more than Biden's boss, Obama, who once comically used one standing in the dusty poop of a rodeo arena.  Those machines can be tricky, and the user is expected to appear to speak spontaneously and genuinely from the heart while robotically reading aloud every single word written by someone else scrolling before your eyes.  Recall 2016 when Hillary Clinton, likely the worst modern presidential candidate, went on autopilot and even read aloud her parenthetical script directions "(PAUSE FOR APPLAUSE)."

Joe Biden Isn't Running For President, His Teleprompter Is.  Once the prized, not-so-secret weapon of President Obama's supposed rhetorical prowess, the teleprompter has become the conspicuous centerpiece of Joe Biden's third attempt to capture America's highest office.  Saving Obama from his tendency to uhhhh and errrr his way through the English language, the teleprompter made him appear oh-so-presidential and caused his swooning supporters' chests to swell with pride, and gormless Republicans to quake in their loafers.  The teleprompter was so essential to preserving Obama's carefully crafted image that someone started a parody blog with the catchy tagline, "There is no POTUS without TOTUS."

Barack Obama Lost Without a Teleprompter.  [Video clip]

Obama and the legacy of liberal Democrat hubris.  [Scroll down]  [John] Gage's article contains a CNN video report with Obama's actual words, which revealed a couple things from the audio of the speech.  First, the "One" is definitely out of practice speaking without a script to a live audience, and two, the former purveyor of "Hope and Change" has either radically rehabilitated his political views... or he's hiding something.  On the first count, Obama spoke haltingly and searched for words.  Granted he was never a terrific off-the-cuff speaker to begin with, but he was never this bad.  It's amazing how being in front of cameras and microphones every day as president tends to make certain politicians skillful in extemporaneous utterances, at least to the point where they don't make fools of themselves.  Speaking proficiency is almost like a reflex, or perhaps more aptly, is akin to a muscle.  The more you exercise it the stronger it becomes.  And if you let the muscle sit idle, it results in atrophy.  You heard it here — Obama's once legendary gift of gab is in atrophy.

Obama's Genie.  For almost an entire century, and certainly since the tumultuous '60s when Bill and Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin and other far-leftists reared their seditious heads, the left has been looking for the one defining figure to get them over the goal line, that being literally overthrowing the United States of America — the land they loathe. [...] Next, they recruited Valerie Jarrett, a longtime Chicago pal of Mr. Obama, as his consigliere to basically run the presidency, and speech writers to formulate every single solitary word that Mr. Obama spoke, even demanding that he use a Teleprompter to address a kindergarten class!  Within weeks or months, the honchos-in-chief delivered to their hand-picked puppet — that would be the guy who rubbed the genie lamp — the massive to-do list they had been working on for decades: [...]

Suddenly, Trump Reading From A Teleprompter Is A Bad Thing.  For eight years, we were treated to the Greatest Orator Ever! speaking from a teleprompter.  Conservatives even came up with a name for Obama's teleprompter:  TOTUS.  Teleprompter Of The United States.  And discussed TOTUS as if it were alive.  There were lots of jokes about this, most in jest, some nasty.  Because, when it came down to it, Obama was barely able to speak in Adult without TOTUS. [...] [And now] Trump is being slammed for just reading a speech from a Teleprompter.  If you want incoherence, how about Obama unable to make his remarks because the teleprompter wasn't programed?  He was handed the speech, and still didn't give it.

New York Times Op-Ed Writer Criticized Trump for Using Teleprompter during Speech.  New York Times op-ed writer Andrew Rosenthal was not a fan of the use of a teleprompter by President Donald Trump during his speech to Congress.  Did he forget that President Barack Obama used teleprompters during his presidency and major speeches?

Obama Exits Stage Left, With a Lie and a Threat.  When Barack Obama speaks, especially without a teleprompter, you can almost see the zzzzzzs rising over the heads of his audience.  You can only listen to platitudes for so long.  But then, suddenly, Obama will come out with a falsehood so other-worldly that you sit up and say, "[What] was that?"

To Sir With Love Six Ways From Sunday.  [Scroll down]  But did you notice that despite making eye contact in his text, in his actual delivery he never once looked the American people in the eye?  Instead we had this weird guy on the screen shifting his gaze from left to right and back left again ad nauseam, a creature of his teleprompters pretending to be watching a tennis match, or maybe it was Ping Pong.  Not once did he dare look at us staring back at him.  At one point the pollen count seemed high, so he dabbed at his right eye as if to wipe away an imaginary tear.

Barak X.  Obama was always a prop, a pitchman, an actor hired to play a role written for him by old white lefties from the 1960's.  His job was to freak out the squares.  People forget that in 2008, the chatter from the Left was that whites feared nothing more than an intelligent, articulate black man.  They believed it which is why they hired Obama in the first place.  That was the point.  They did not care a whit about Obama's ideas.  His job was to read from the teleprompter.

Obamas Attempt To Trash Trump Turns Into A Stuttering Mess.  [Video clip]

Obama Tries to Trash Donald Trump and Turns into a Stuttering Mess.  ["]Barack Obama:  If we turn against each other based on division of race or religion.  If-if-if-if-if-if-if-if-if-if-if we fall for, you know, a bunch of okie-doke, just because, you know it-it-it.  You know, it-it-it-it-it-it sounds funny or the tweets are provocative.["]  [Video clip]

Obama comes out of the closet as Porky Pig.  Obama did it to himself by just being himself yesterday [6/1/2016] when he set out for Indiana to hold a rally to put a presidential stamp on talk-trashing Donald Trump:  [Video clip]  Barack Obama:  "If we turn against each other based on division of race or religion.  If-if-if-if-if-if-if-if-if-if-if we fall for, you know, a bunch of okie-doke, just because, you know it-it-it.  You know, it-it-it-it-it-it sounds funny or the tweets are provocative, then we're not gonna build on the progress that we started."

Here's how CNN reported the same story — with all the stuttering removed:
Obama dives into 2016 fight, lambasts GOP on economy.  "If we turn against each other based on divisions of race or religion, if we fall for a bunch of 'okey-doke,' just because it sounds funny or the tweets are provocative, then we're not going to build on the progress we started," Obama said.  "If we get cynical and just vote our fears, or if we don't vote at all, we won't build on the progress that we started."

Obama: 'I Might Have Ingested Some Lead Paint When I Was 2 or 3 Years Old'.  Speaking in Flint, Mich., today [5/4/2016] after meeting with federal responders dealing with the water crisis there, President Barack Obama said that he "might have ingested some lead paint" when he was very young.  "When I was five or six or seven, a lot of homes still had lead paint in it [sic]," Obama said.  "I might have ingested some lead paint when I was two or three years old, because at the time, people didn't know it.  "So we've got an entire couple of generations of Americans who have done really well despite the fact that they may have had something that is not optimal," the president said.

WashPost Coos Over 'Sly' and 'Self-Aware' Obama, 'Our First Comedian-In-Chief'.  One obvious sign liberal journalists are already missing Obama?  Celebrating him as a comedian.  Washington Post gossip Emily Heil is a big fan of his comedic stylings, as the headlines proved: [...] It took Heil 14 paragraphs to acknowledge the obvious:  Obama has joke writers to make him funny.  Is it really that hard to please a roomful of liberal journalists who voted for you?  Or did he have them at "Hello"?  "The president's reputation as a funny guy is, of course, partly courtesy of the professionally crafted material he reads off the Teleprompters," Heil wrote, but turned quickly to former Obama speechwriter David Litt for spin.  You see, Obama "tweaked" the jokes so masterfully.

Press Ignores Obama's False-Equivalent Belief That Some Communist Ideas 'Work'.  As noted in my previous post, the press is determined that the world not learn of profound statements made by world leaders it despises.  The specific reference was to Israeli Prime Mininster Benjamin Netanyahu's five-word admonishment to those who believe that some accommodation can be reached with Islamic terrorists:  "Terrorists Have No Resolvable Grievances."  Meanwhile, the press protects those it likes when they make breathtakingly ignorant remarks.  Such remarks occur with alarming regularity any time U.S. President Barack Obama speaks without the aid of a teleprompter.

Five Observations of The Obama/CNN "Guns in America" Town Hall Meeting.  [#1] At the top of the show, Cooper admitted that CNN approached the Obama White House about doing this town hall after the San Bernardino attacks.  So even though the San Bernardino attacks were a result of Islamic terrorism, CNN nevertheless approached the Obama Administration with the idea of having a town hall meeting about gun control and the Obama White House enthusiatically agreed. [...] [#2] I'm not sure why Obama agreed to this meeting.  He came off worse tonight than he did in his first debate with Mitt Romney.  Without a teleprompter, he is utterly incoherent.

Mark Knoller Trolls Josh Earnest in Back-to-Back Questions.  CBS reporter Mark Knoller trolled White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest on Wednesday [8/26/2015], asking questions about the president's reliance on teleprompters and ill-advised comments about opponents of the Iran Deal.  "Donald Trump said yesterday he thinks teleprompters ought to be outlawed.  Is that something that would affect the president adversely?" Knoller asked.  "I'll just — that's a tough one to respond to," Earnest said over laughter from the press corps.  He went on to say that the American public judges politicians based on substance, not their method of delivery.  President Obama has been praised for some of his prepared speeches, but tends to meander when speaking extemporaneously.

Obama's Fallacious "Religious Test" Argument.  In response to the idea that the U.S. should limit the flow of Syrian refugees into this country to Christians, President Obama had this to say:  ["]That's not American.  That's not who we are.  We don't have a religious test for our compassion.["]  This sounds good in the abstract.  For at least two reasons, however, it is not a persuasive objection to limiting entry to Christians.  First, Syrian Christians face persecution from ISIS based on their religion.  Syrian Sunnis do not.  If ISIS conquers their town, they will not be slaughtered because of who they are.  Christians are likely to be.

Obama and Bush Eulogies: The Grotesque and the Graceful.  President Obama has a very serious ego problem, and when he goes off teleprompter, it sticks out like a sore thumb. [...] It is time to amp up the ridicule of Obama.

53 Seconds that Should End a Presidency.  The great orator, Obama, seems lost and easily thrown without his teleprompter.

Obama's Delivered 699 Speeches Using a Teleprompter Since Taking Office.  Since becoming the president of the United States of America, Barack Obama has delivered 699 speeches using a Teleprompter, according to statistics compiled by CBS reporter Mark Knoller.  That number includes campaign speeches, State of the Union addresses, and everything in between.

Respect the office, not necessarily the man.  Barack Hussein Obama does not deserve the respect due the office of the President.  He is an empty suit man who can't speak without a tele-prompter.  His Presidency is marked by constant drama, distortions, and exaggerations, which is just now waking up the mainstream media and the low information voters.  He has embarked on his promised transformation from capitalism to socialism on the path to communism, just as he was taught by his leftist mentors.  He has made the economy worse; people's jobs and wealth have been destroyed; and our nation's global reputation has been destroyed.

Man Gets 7 Years for Stealing Obama's Teleprompter.  A career criminal who stole a truck containing President Obama's audio equipment was sentenced Thursday [4/11/2013] to seven years in federal prison.  Sentencing guidelines called for a term of about three years, but Eric Brown of Richmond, Va., agreed to the longer sentence to avoid prosecution for 14 similar truck thefts in three localities.

Biden needles Obama on teleprompter.  Vice President Biden ribbed President Obama over his teleprompter use at a Jewish-American Heritage Month reception in New York City on Tuesday [5/21/2013].  Biden asked that the teleprompter in the room be taken down before his address, according to the pool report.  "You can't tell Barack that the teleprompter's down," Biden said.  "The standing joke in the office is Barack's learning to speak without a teleprompter.  I'm learning to speak with one.  I apologize for the teleprompter."

Our Make No Mistake About It/Let Me Be Perfectly Clear President.  Never has a commander in chief so casually, so confidently approached the podium as if he were popping open his own laptop, his jaw almost in Mussolini style thrust out, with eyes fixed three feet above the heads of the audience — all with just the right mixture of self-assurance and canned humility.  No wonder that after all that we expect a "four score and seven years ago" that will match the perfect choreography.  Never has a president so mastered the teleprompter — no easy task in itself — with just the right pauses, followed with a timely ratcheting up of passion, punctuated with a half-smile, a grimace, a laugh.

Maybe the teleprompter is being loaded by somebody in Moscow.
Obama's Sword and Shield.  In watching President Obama speak on terrorism last week, we were taken aback to hear him say that America needs an anti-terrorism program that is both our sword and our shield.  This was a striking choice of words by an American president.  Remember the emblem of the KGB?  Maybe you don't, but we do.

Obama, the great orator, proves again that he is unable to ad-lib.
Video: Obama snaps at staff after realizing his prepared remarks are missing.  As President Obama approached the podium this afternoon to deliver a speech, he quickly realized his prepared remarks were not there.  "I think there's only one problem, and that is that my remarks are not sitting here," he said as the crowd chuckled.

Obama at total loss for words as staff forgets his speech.  President Obama strolled out to the podium today in San Jose, CA and was immediately at a loss for words.  Not only did the President not have teleprompter, his aides forgot his speech.

The Editor says...
Obama must be completely incompetent, because if he had adequate comprehension of the issues America faces (other than the problems Obama has inflicted himself), he would be able to speak extemporaneously about them for a few minutes.  Long enough to load the prompter, at least.  This isn't the first time Barack Obama has frozen in mute stupefication in the absence of a prepared script.

Barack Obama: Real Good Talker, Really Bad Communicator.  Once upon a time Barack Obama was known as a good speech-giver.  That's how he debuted in 2004 and why he almost always relies on a teleprompter; so he can concentrate on the delivery, not the content. [...] Recall last week when Obama had no teleprompter and staff forgot to deliver his speech to the podium?  The most powerful man in the world was speechless, literally.  Flummoxed.  Improv not his thing.  Had no idea what to do or say.  Reduced to mocking his own staff.

Chris Matthews: Lack of Teleprompter 'Ruined' Obama's Berlin Speech.  MSNBC's number one Obama fanboy, Chris Matthews, was obviously disappointed with President Obama's letdown of a speech in Germany Tuesday [6/18/2013].  Rather than place the blame where it belonged — on the empty rhetoric, hypocritical platitudes, and a crowd 95% smaller than the one Obama captured in '08 as a presidential candidate — Matthews blamed it on the sun blotting out Obama's teleprompter.  [Video clip]

Matthews: Berlin Sun 'Ruined' Obama's Speech.  MSNBC host and Obama sycophant Chris Matthews blamed the sun for spoiling the president's speech in Berlin today. [...] Speaking behind a glass bulletproof shield, Obama appeared to be using the text of the speech rather than reading off of teleprompters.

White House Blows the Berlin Speech.  President Obama's speech at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin today was a stage director's nightmare.  The president was sweating profusely — you could see the outlines of his undershirt.  There were ghostly reflections off the protective glass in front of him.  And instead of heaving throngs of admirers, Obama addressed 6,000 or so invited guests.  And something was wrong with TOTUS!

Obama's Off-teleprompter Race Speech.  Much has been made of Obama's impromptu crashing of the press briefing at the White House the other day to weigh in yet again on Trayvon Martin's death.  The reception of Obama's discussion reminded me of the movie The King's Speech, where the man who would be king of England had to give just one good speech, so all of England would feel comfort.  As in the movie, I chuckled at the big deal made by "reporters" that the man who is supposed to be a great orator and "Leader of the formerly Free World" did so without his "blankie," the trusted teleprompter.

The Editor says...
How do we know there wasn't a big teleprompter at the other end of the room?

Obama Proves Just How Smart He Isn't.  For years I have heard many credible people, even those on the political right touting how smart and what a great orator Obama is.  In fact, he isn't smart.  He is manipulative, and when he has a ministry of propaganda (the press / media) to convince others, he can look like pretty much anything he likes.  The same is true of his speaking skills.  Sure, he can read a teleprompter with the best of them, but take it away and his skills disappear.

Obama as Chaos.  In short, whenever the president prefaces a sweeping statement with one of his many emphatics — "make no mistake about it," "I'm not making this up," "in point of fact," "let me be perfectly clear" — we know that the reverse is always true.  For Obama, how something is said matters far more than what is said.  If he stumbles, as is his wont, through an un-teleprompted remark that on rare occasions can be mostly accurate, that is a serious lapse; if, more frequently, he mellifluously asserts a teleprompted falsehood, there is little worry.  The result is not so much untruth, lies, or distortions, as virtual chaos.  Is what he says untrue, contradictory of what he said or did earlier, or just nonsensical?

Does Obama Have Any Idea What Is Going On In His Own Administration?  When President Obama speaks off the cuff, he is often revealing, if you can penetrate his trademark incoherence.

DNC chair utters a strange word to defend Obama.  Unlike many officials this long into elected service, President Obama has stuck with his teleprompter.  It not only ensures he utters the vocabulary words pre-polled by his communications strategists for effectiveness and resonance with voters.  Ever heard him, for instance, not combine the words "quality affordable health care"?  No accident.  But the prompter frees Obama from having to think much about what he's saying, lets him focus more on a really sincere delivery.

The TOTUS Who Can't Look America in the Eye.  Not once — not even once — did the man who claims to be the legitimate leader of our nation ever look me, and all the other watching citizens of this nation, in the eye during his State of the Nation speech.  He was a dash-top bobble-head, swinging back and forth from prompter to prompter.  Good grief!  The man can't uncouple himself from his comfort-zone technology for even a moment to look Americans in the eye just once, and give us some sense of our comfort that he is sincere.

Pabulum from the POTUS.  This man, our President, is the emptiest suit of empty suits.  There is no there there.  He reads the teleprompter but one cannot help thinking that he was reading the speech for the first time and that he most certainly did not write it.  He believes himself to be above the ignoble work of actually writing the speeches he delivers, just as he considers himself above actually governing.  He dictates.  He lectures.  He orders.  He vacations.  He golfs.  He spends taxpayer dollars profligately.  He pontificates on issues about which he knows virtually nothing beyond what his callow young "advisers," like the odious Dan Pfeiffer, tell him.  He is a cipher.

The world's greatest intellectual stammers in the absence of a teleprompter:
Obama Stumbles Through Surprise Shinseki Question on Live with Kelly and Michael.  It takes two-and-a-half minutes for Obama to actually answer the question, and one can actually watch him try to cobble together a coherent statement about what he's going to do with Shinseki.  Somewhere, you can actually watch him desperately wish that Kelly Ripa asked him to hold a tiger.

Obama's Tough Speech: Was the TelePrompTer broken in Kansas City?  President Obama seemed a little off his teleprompter game Wednesday [7/30/2014] in Kansas City.  His usual stirring comments about roads and bridges, economic patriotism and lambasting Republicans for their terribleness were beset by a lot of pauses, stutters and stammers.  [Video clip]

Another example of Obama's performance without a teleprompter:
Obama Never Has a Plan.  On Thursday, President Obama held a press conference in which he humiliated himself entirely on the question of America's handling of the terror group ISIS.  Explaining that he had to consult Congress and check the pulse of Americans, Obama stated, "I don't want to put the cart before the horse.  We don't have a strategy yet."  Which begs the question:  what [...] does this guy do for a living?

Harry Reid Rips Bumbling Community Organizer Whose Only Skill is Reading a Teleprompter.  WaPo's Paul Kane has the details of Harry Reid's temper tantrum. Reid's chief of staff, David Krone, just went public with his six-years-too-late concerns about nominating an inexperienced, back-bencher state senator with a nice logo to the office of POTUS.

Obama admits he violated the Constitution.  The president has proved to be one of the most talented political orators in recent history — until he goes off script.  It's at those moments when he ignores the teleprompter that he gets into trouble.  Tuesday night [11/25/2014] in Chicago was one of those.

Obama goes off-prompter and makes up biblical attribution.  Valerie Jarrett really has to crack down on President Obama going off-teleprompter.  Ever.  Speaking in Tennessee yesterday, a state where many people actually read the Bible, the smartest president ever mistakenly attributed an aphorism rooted in Chaucer to the Bible.

Obama Butchers Name of American Hostage Held in Iran.  During President Obama's speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Obama called for the release of the five American hostages.  While saying Rezaian's name, Obama mispronounced his name, rolled his eyes, and tried again.  He then ran through the rest of the hostages' names.

Trump: "If You're Running For President You Shouldn't Be Allowed To Use A Teleprompter".  ["]I think about my speeches and I don't believe in teleprompters, although it's very easy.  I would like to go up and stand and read a speech for an hour and just leave.  But you wouldn't have sold-out crowds like we have outside.["]

Shut Up and Read Your Teleprompter.  I have had it with this gross and inexcusable incompetence from people whose only marketable skill is reading lines smoothly from a teleprompter but who nonetheless feel empowered to tell the rest of the world what is and is not true, despite the fact that they are pretty much wrong every time they try.

Obama shares America's many troubles with another foreign crowd.  President Obama returned from a nine-day, round-the-world tour early this morning.  But not before once again detailing for another foreign audience some of the numerous things wrong with his country.  "The United States has to have some humility," said the aloof one, "because there have been times where we did the wrong thing.  There have been times where we have problems in our own country.  And so we will want to go tell other people what to do, but then back home we're not always doing what we say we should do."  Yes, he was unclear.  But Obama had no teleprompter to feed him replies during that Malaysian town-hall with young people.

Has the president lost his ability to discharge the powers and duties of office?  Anyone who listened to President Obama speak to reporters in Paris on Tuesday [12/1/2015] would reasonably conclude it is high time to start drawing up the papers to transmit to Congress for his removal. [...] Without the use of the teleprompter, his speech can be described only as "halting."  It was impossible to count the number of times he seized up, able to deaden the silence with only a drawn-out "uh," "um" or "ahhh."  The White House dutifully scrubbed all the halts and stutters from the official transcript, and it was impossible to count them in real time.  But a sample of his incoherent word salad found him stuttering about every 15 words, which comes to more than 330 "uh-um-ahhs" in a single appearance.

Is Obama Stupid And Lazy?  Although that's quite a provocative question, evidence is mounting that Obama may not be as intelligent as his supporters and cheerleaders in the media constantly assure us.  The reality may be that Obama is mostly a creation of the liberal media.  Indeed, the more we dig into his past, the more we find very little substance and discover how a network of liberal professors, law firms, and others, gave him a pass on performance while he pursued his political agenda.

Obama Loves Lecturing.  Too Bad He's Not Bright and Has No Original Thoughts.  I continue to wonder why this faux intellectual never wants to talk about books — only the tv shows he watches incessantly.

The Idiot President.  I'm going to tell you the truth, and the thing about the truth is that it sticks in your head forever.  This is it — the American President is an idiot.  In fact, he's a dangerous idiot.  Now I'll tell you why; [...]

The Overrated Obama.  Obama is the guy who once said, in 2008, "And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."  And who said, that same year, that he was going to "spread the wealth around" of people to "Joe the Plumber."  And who said, in 2012, "If you've got a business, you didn't build that.  Somebody else made that happen."  Let me stand even further athwart the conventional wisdom regarding President Obama.  His recent statement is just another example that demonstrates that Barack Obama is, and always was, a very overrated politician.

This May Be the Stupidest Thing Barack Obama Ever Said.  [Scroll down]  But in light of today's new threat, behold the sheer idiocy of this campaign promise from then-candidate Obama:  [Video clip]  For some reason, we are constantly told that Barack Obama is the Smartest Man Ever to Live, let alone grace us with his presence in our Oval Office.  But even as those dimwitted words left his oddly blueish-hued lips (Why are they that color?  Is he getting enough oxygen?) — "I will NOT weaponize space" — I knew how stupid they were.  They are the epitome of liberal wishful thinking, the same asinine school of thought that wants to cripple American society with gun laws that disarm the good guys, leaving only the bad guys with weapons.  But then, Obama is also the genius who, as a senator, disarmed Ukraine and then, as president, stood by while Russia annexed Crimea.

Obama's Israel statement is arrogant, naive, and dangerous.  More than two weeks after Hamas launched a genocidal assault on Israel, resulting in the death of at least 1,400 innocent civilians and the abduction of at least 200 more, former President Barack Obama weighed in with a statement.  And it's a statement that not only demonstrates the sheer arrogance we endured throughout his administration, but the feckless cluelessness that has now infected the Biden administration's foreign policy.  To his credit, Obama managed to begin with one paragraph that was rooted in reality, speaking of Hamas's "horrific attack," which demonstrated "unspeakable brutality," and America's "rightly declared solidarity" with the Israeli people.  The rest, however, is Obama's signature combination of pompous, naive, and stupid.

Obama [is] Eager to Remind Everyone He's an Idiot on Foreign Policy.  The most polarizing politician of the last 40 years is not, as leftists would have us believe, Donald Trump.  For my money, it's none other than His High Holiness the Lightbringer, Barack Obama.  Seriously, the dude is irritating.  Unfortunately, half the country thinks that he's the most brilliant man to do brilliant things in the history of brilliance.  Anyone who disagrees with that, according to them, is — say it with me — racist.  One day, historians may decide that they are tired of embarrassing themselves and critically assess Obama's legacy as president, which is especially awful when one is discussing foreign policy.  He left messes all over the globe, many of which still getting messier.  Remember, this is the guy who thought Russia was no longer a threat.  To anyone.  Obama took a break from vapid celebrityhood to weigh in on the crisis in the Middle East and — predictably — his hot take was unoriginal and wrong.  Those are his foreign policy hallmarks, by the way.

Obama leaves audience scratching heads over gaffes at Scotland summit.  Former President Barack Obama called on world leaders to save the planet, but he couldn't quite identify which country he was in.  Mr. Obama's speech Monday at the COP26 climate-change summit is being mocked for his reference to host Scotland as part of the "Emerald Isles," which is a nickname for Ireland.  "Since we're in the Emerald Isles here let me quote the Bard, William Shakespeare," Mr. Obama said. "'What wound,' he writes, 'did ever heal but by degrees?'"  Observers pointed out Mr. Obama actually committed two gaffes in the same breath.  Shakespeare is considered the bard of England — yet another country.  Scotland's bard is poet Robert Burns.  The Express, a publication in the United Kingdom, commented that Mr. Obama "attempted a local reference but failed spectacularly."

Obama reveals himself as an appalling legal ignoramus.  It has always been a lie that Barack Obama was a distinguished constitutional law scholar, a professor of law at the University of Chicago.  In fact, he was a lecturer brought in to teach a class on his theories of race and law, and he never published any scholarly work.  That is not what a professor does.  But in his telephone call to "Obama alumni" that was immediately leaked to Michael Issikoff, he demonstrated appalling sloppiness and ignorance that reveal what a lightweight legal thinker he is.

10 Embarrassing Obama Gaffes the Left Needs to Be Reminded of After Trump's Kansas Gaffe.  [#10] Obama's embassy gaffe:  When Iran protestors attacked the British Embassy in Tehran, Obama condemned the attack, but in doing so, referred to it as the "English Embassy" — apparently unaware that England is part of Great Britain, along with Scotland and Wales.  [#9] Obama doesn't know what committee he's on:  While speaking in Israel during his first presidential campaign, Obama claimed to be on a committee that he was not on.  "Just this past week, we passed out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee — which is my committee — a bill to call for divestment from Iran as a way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don't obtain a nuclear weapon."  [#8] Obama gets his own daughter's age wrong:  In June 2011, while talking about his daughters, Obama said, "Malia And Sasha generally finish their homework a day ahead of time.  Malia's 13, Sasha's 10.  It is impressive."  What's not so impressive is that Malia was only 12 years old at the time.  Is it really possible that any parent could get their own child's age wrong?  Imagine if Trump got his kids' ages wrong.

Malia, Michelle, Barack and the College Admissions Scandal.  In his overly friendly biography, The Bridge, David Remnick writes that Obama was an "unspectacular" student in his two years at Columbia and at every stop before that going back to grade school.  A Northwestern University prof who wrote a letter of reference for Obama reinforces the point, telling Remnick, "I don't think [Obama] did too well in college." As to Obama's LSAT scores, Jimmy Hoffa's body will be unearthed before those are.  How such an indifferent student got into a law school whose applicants' LSAT scores typically track between 98 to 99 percentile and whose GPAs range between 3.80 and 4.00 is a subject Remnick avoids.  Obama does too.  Although he has admitted that he "undoubtedly benefited from affirmative action programs" during his academic career, he has remained mum about some reported "back door" influence peddling that may have been as useful to him as affirmative action.

Off-teleprompter Obama rambles, nearly incoherently attacking American global warming skeptics.  Back in 2008, when he was addressing vast throngs in Berlin and Mile High Stadium, Barack Obama was, we were assured by most of the Smart Set, one of the greatest orators in history.  That was but one of the many ways in which he was overrated by those anxious for the first black president to be a brilliant champion of the Democratic Party, "bending the arc of history" toward progressivism.  Those of us who paid attention to his speaking abilities when he was not reading a prepared text were already skeptical, with his stalling the completion of his thoughts with "uh...uh" and mispronunciations ("corpse-man") and outright errors ("57 states" speaking "Austrian" in Austria) painful evidence that this was no Winston Churchill, and not even a passably well-educated man.  But at least he had the discipline of a White House staff behind him, presumably briefing him before he opened his mouth in public.

Obama repeatedly stutters, talks about himself 79 times while campaigning for candidates.  There were times during a Thursday rally Barack Obama couldn't help but talk about himself, even though he was supposed to be talking about other people.  There were other times he could barely talk at all.  During the Cleveland rally for Rich Cordray and Betty Sutton, Obama repeatedly talked about himself, despite the candidates sitting behind him.  Several times, he stuttered as he attempted to attack President Trump and the success of recent Republican initiatives. [...] "Let, let, let, let, let me just say these, these are friends of mine," Obama said, stumbling over his words, "I admit I am biased."

New stimulus analysis shows Obama never understood investment.  The free-spending left has always been known for its firm belief in free lunches and general economic illiteracy.  But taken in investment terms, the left-dominated Obama administration comes up looking even more colossally stupid, bringing back just 44 cents for America for every dollar spent.  What kind of investment is that?  A professional investor's analysis, spotted by ZeroHedge writer Tyler Durden, really makes President Obama, and the vaunted stimulus spending program he is still praising on behalf of himself, look like a rube, a boob, and a fool.  Seriously, you would not want Obama to be your fund-manager after reading this.  Simon Black, whose website says he lives in Chile, explained this as he analyzed what was almost exclusively the Obama administration's $11.6-trillion stimulus.  The size of the stimulus didn't bother him.  The problem, he said, was the return on investment.

Obama the Oracle.  Courtesy of Edward-Isaac Dovere at Politico, we have an opportunity to enlighten our benighted selves with the mystic pronouncements of former president and present political oracle Barack Obama, offered this week at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser in Beverly Hills (California, not Michigan).  The event was intended to help the DNC dig out of the electoral hole at the federal, state and local levels that Democrats got themselves into during The Oracle's administration. [...] Never one to miss a teachable moment, The Oracle gives us poor saps a hint:  "If we don't vote, then this democracy doesn't work."  Reading the tea leaves, The Oracle appears to be instructing his audience that if Democrats don't vote, Democrats don't get elected.

Obama Created His 'Cartoon' President.  First, it's telling that now out of office, Barack Obama's famous ego still has him buying into the narrative created by the liberal media, the Democratic Party and his aides that he was a "successful" and "brilliant" president.  President Obama had, in reality, set up the economy to implode.  He and his administration ignored endless "facts" and — thanks to their allies in the media, entertainment and academia — never faced any "consequences."  More than that, Obama has parlayed his political Ponzi scheme into tens of millions of dollars for himself.

Cleaning up after Obama and Hillary.  Obama and Hillary in some ways are mirrors of each other; in other ways, photographic negatives.  They're alike in that the focus of each is self — self with a vengeance, in a way so exaggerated as to escape the comprehension of normal people.  Each thinks him/herself the smartiest pants in the room, maybe even the world, perhaps even the galaxy.  Both have perfectly average intelligence, scant talent, zero common sense and no zest for anything that resembles productive work.  His phony cerebralism counterpoises her readiness for hardball.  His towering disdain balances her sneering contempt.  His ideology-driven cast of mind opposes her criminality.

O'Donnell: 'Brilliant' Obama's Mind Is 'Too Complex' 'Compared to My Own'.  Appearing as a guest on Saturday's [6/2/2018] AM Joy show, MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell again descended into sycophancy toward former President Barack Obama as he declared that the former President's mind is "too supple, too complex, too rich compared to my own."  [Video clip]

Obama and his insufferable fans.  Obama was sold to the public based on an image that was a complete fabrication.  He did not, in fact, have a 'first class temperament'.  He was not, in fact, 'the smartest man in the room'.  He was an academic mediocrity.  I spent 8 years telling people if Obama's academic records & college papers established his bona fides as an intellectual and the genius he was sold as being, we'd have seen them all long ago.  That's why they were SEALED and they remain sealed to this day.

Stuck on Stupid.  It starts with the overwhelming self-generated conceit by the left that it's smarter, better, and in all ways superior to the riffraff that surrounds it in the good old U.S. of A.  Smarter than its opponents, morally superior to all, and simply outclassing all others.  These leftists really believe that concept of superiority, particularly the incarnation that gave us Barack Obama.  That's how they presented Barack Obama to us.  For all these years, despite a lot of evidence, in their eyes, Barack was the best.  Ever.  Smarter, morally superior, he couldn't do less than ace everything he did.  He won the Nobel Peace Prize, he gave the best speeches, he outclassed everyone he touched.  Except he didn't.

Counterfeit Elitism.  Obama apparently did not grasp that the so-called white population voted for him in greater numbers in the general election than it did for Al Gore or John Kerry, including the very constituency he wrote off as near Neanderthal.  On what criteria of excellence did Obama in 2008 justify separating himself from the objects of his stereotyped condemnations?  His stellar Columbia undergraduate transcript?  His landmark editorship of the Harvard Law Review?  His dynamic career as a state legislator and U.S. senator?  The ethical manner in which he conducted his Illinois senate campaign?  His savvy business deals with Tony Rezko?  His limitless knowledge of geography?

Now We Know Who's Really A Genius.  The word genius has been batted around willy-nilly by the media to describe some individuals who are borderline simpletons.  Obama's adorers based his intelligence on merely his oratorical skills dependent on teleprompters.  Jack Kelly wrote a column that appeared in JWR back in 2012 declaring that Obama was not that bright:  "Mr. Obama has said a lot of unsmart things:  there are 57 states; Canada has a president; "Austrian" is a language; America is "20 centuries" old; Arabic is spoken in Afghanistan.  He's called the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) the Maldives, and declared it would be "unprecedented" for the Supreme Court to invalidate a law passed by Congress."  Kelly left out how Obama repeatedly pronounced corpsman as corpseman and hilariously said this about Abraham Lincoln:  "Listen, Abraham Lincoln helped build the interstate, er the intercontinental railroad in the middle of the Civil War because he understood this was going to be important."  The smartest president ever doesn't know the difference between intercontinental and transcontinental.  Imagine how wet the passengers' luggage would get on the train crossing the Atlantic.

Is Obama as Shallow as He Seems?  Yesterday, writing about former president Obama's hack remark to David Letterman about the absence of "a common baseline of facts" shared by Americans, I asked whether Obama really is as shallow a thinker as he appears to be.  It was not a rhetorical question.  To be sure, Obama has failed to display appreciable depth since he wrote his fictionalized autobiography, Dreams From Father. His signature pronouncements and phrases are banal and borrowed.  "The audacity of hope," borrowed from his spiritual mentor the Reverend Wright.  "Just words," lifted from Deval Patrick.  "You didn't build that," the obnoxious contribution of Elizabeth Warren.  "Right side of history," the conclusory rallying cry of countless Marxist hacks.

Obama is not that bright.  Barack Obama is the smartest man with the highest IQ ever to be elected to the presidency, historian Michael Beschloss told radio talk show host Don Imus in November of 2008.  "So what is his IQ?" Mr. Imus asked.  Mr. Beschloss didn't know.  He was just assuming.  Many shared that assumption.  Adjectives frequently applied to Mr. Obama are "smart" (278 million hits on Google), "intelligent" (62 million) and "brilliant" (24 million).  There is little evidence to support it.

Confirmed: Trump Is, Indeed, a Very Stable Genius.  [Scroll down]  Let's look at ISIS, Obama's bastard Middle Eastern child.  Maybe he should have called them "the Snows" instead of "Daesh," an appellation he used instead of "ISIS." It is an acronym for the Arabic phrase "al-Dawla al-Islamiya al-Iraq al-Sham."  Everything Barry did had to have a little sham to it.  Obama said it would be a long fight comprising years of costly sacrifice in the form of American blood and treasure.  You see, he had strict rules of engagement, dictating that American forces were not allowed to shoot first or return fire if there was a possibility of civilians around.  It was the first war in history where one side wasn't allowed to shoot first and sometimes couldn't even shoot back.  I wonder how many American lives were sacrificed for that.  Keep in mind that this is the guy they told us is a "genius."

The Prince and the Community Organizer.  The interview overflows with such prattle, with Obama alternating between praising and condemning the superficial politics he helped create.  One moment, he is talking about the apolitical depth of his wife, the next he is warning against the hashtag activism for which she was famous.  He says that he deplores our fact-free politics, then weaves a fantasy about how climate-change activism can stop hurricanes.  For all of his much-advertised "experience," he is still the senatorial punk who thinks he can stop the rise of the oceans.  That his first postpresidential interview was with Harry is fitting.  It captures the fatuousness of his presidency and its celebrity-seeking champagne socialism.

Most Presidential Experts Agree:  Obama is Worst President In History.  In the past I have been fond of saying that it is hard to assess a president's legacy until he has been out of office for at least ten years.  It usually takes about that long to see the effect wrought by all the things he did in office.  I have also seen this sentiment echoed by several historians and scholars in the past.  But apparently Obama has been particularly destructive for them to already be determining that his regime has been an abject failure.  Before you liberals out there start yelping about "conservative lairs" and all, this determination came from the far left think tank the Brookings Institute, not any conservative group.  That makes it all the more amazing.

No Documents in Obama Library?  No Mystery There.  [Scroll down]  The Chicago Tribune broke the story that, to this point, has attracted no major media attention.  Its headline raises much the same question Fox News did:  "Without archives on site, how will Obama Center benefit area students, scholars?"  The Tribune tries to answer that question but succeeds only in pacifying Obama fanboys.  There is no good answer, but there is an answer, and it is this:  Obama is not a literary genius.  In fact, Obama is not a particularly good writer.  His reputation would wither if researchers were allowed access to original documents.  To this day, Obama supporters in the media refuse to accept what is obvious to anyone who has looked carefully at his literary track record.

Trump schools Obama on U.S. Constitution.  President Trump never took a single law class — at least not that we know of.  Because if he had, Mr. Trump would surely find a way to remind us every time he wanted to strut his legal stuff.  Anyway, Trump University didn't even have a law school.  Yet, Mr. Trump effortlessly runs legal circles around the Great Law Lecturer Barack Obama when it comes to understanding the Constitution.

America's Media Meltdown.  [Scroll down]  Newsweek editor Evan Thomas declared Obama to be a deity ("Obama's standing above the country, above the world, he's sort of God.") His very words were able to make the leg of MSNBC's Chris Matthews "tingle."  His pants' crease proved for David Brooks a talisman of his future greatness, along with the fact that the mellifluent Obama "talks like us."  While a few journalists were aware of their cult-like worship, most were hooked and competed to outdo one another with embarrassing hagiographic praise.  Upon election, Obama was summarily declared by one presidential historian and television pundit to the smartest man with the highest IQ ever to have been president.  Obama himself channeled the veneration, variously promising in god-like fashion to cool the planet and lower the seas, remarking that his own multifaceted expertise was greater than that of all of the various specialists who ran his campaign.

Still waiting for Obama to be quiet.  Those who idolize former President Barack Obama believe he is everything President Trump is not.  He has a thoughtful manner, and was not just professorial in lecturing the public but was indeed a former professor.

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Obama was a lecturer, not a professor.

New Bio Scrambles to Protect Obama's Literary Rep.  As to Obama's presumed genius, Garrow never quite endorses it, but he does not challenge it, either.  He makes no comment, for instance, on the literary quality of Obama's first published essay, "Breaking the War Mentality," written during Obama's senior year at Columbia.  He should have.  The essay is clunky, pedestrian, and wonkish, a C- paper in freshman comp — maybe less, given that there are five sentences in which the noun and verb do not agree.  As a curiosity, both Garrow and earlier biographer David Maraniss quote the same one of those five sentences, and each fixes it to make the grammatical problem either go away or look less obvious.

Nouns and Verbs and Obama Do Not Agree.  [Scroll down]  Unfortunately, others have also read Dreams along with the pathetic drivel that came from Obama's pen before Dreams.  One, the New York Times best-selling author Christopher Andersen wrote in his 2009 book that Obama, a "hopelessly blocked" writer facing a contract deadline, realized that he had taken on more than he could deliver.  So he turned to his Chicago neighbor, Bill Ayers, who was a proven writer, to finish what became Dreams.  Bill has remained relatively reticent about his work, but then he shares Obama's politics.  As for Andersen, he has sources that he has never divulged.  Maybe he will, when the former president snags his $30 million.  An even more interesting critic is Jack Cashill, a scholar and literary critic.  He actually read Obama's literary outpouring that came before Dreams.  Possibly this is what excited Michiko Kakutani, though Obama's "outpouring" was limited.  It consists of but two essays.  In all those years, just two essays.

The Disgusting Media Double Standard Between Obama and Trump.  Pop quiz:  Who said, "The Middle East is an issue that has obviously plagued the region for centuries"? No, it wasn't Ross Perot, and it wasn't Donald Trump.  It was Barack Obama, the same man the White House press corps hailed as the smartest man to ever sit in the Oval Office.

Medals at a discount.  President Obama awarded the Medal as well to a collection of entertainers, athletes and celebrities famous mostly for being famous, no doubt deserving of honor in their fields, but out of place in a ceremony to recognize devotion and excellence as envisioned for the nation's highest civilian award.  Celebrity and show biz are particularly important to President Obama, and he admires no others like professors of basketball.

The Internet thinks President Barack Obama's turntable setup is trash.  The latest issue of Architectural Digest offers a rare glimpse inside the Obama's private White House residence.  Among the biggest takeaways?  Our Hipster Prez spins vinyl.  Shocking, right?  Of course, everything the president does is subject to criticism, and reddit's trove of audio nerds couldn't help but declare World War 3 on President Obama's setup.  Audiophiles typically prefer a bit of space between their turntable and their speaker to offset any vibrations.  Or, as one particularly enthusiastic redditor put it, "Get the speakers off the same surface as the turntable."  Another wrote, "Who's going to be the guy to email the president and let him know he shouldn't have the speakers and subwoofer sitting on the same table as his record player?"

Trump's Dirty Talk versus Hillary's Corruption.  In the past week: [...] Obama partially blamed the Civil War in Syria on a drought he says was caused by humans.  That is one of the most ignorant statements ever.  The war is because Assad is a tyrant, and the Mideast is essentially a desert that has had continued droughts for millennia.

New York Times Can't Stop Pushing the Myth of Obama's Literary Genius.  [Scroll down]  For years, Obama has encouraged this fiction.  "I've written two books," he told a crowd of teachers in Virginia in July of 2008.  The crowd applauded.  "I actually wrote them myself," he added with a wink and a nod, and now the teachers exploded in laughter.  They got the joke:  Republicans were too stupid to write their books.  No one much cared about Obama's second book, The Audacity of Hope, a policy brief written by committee and published in 2006.  It was his 1995 memoir, Dreams from My Father, that emerged as the sacred text in the cult of Obama.  "There is no underestimating the importance of Dreams from My Father in the political rise of Barack Obama," New Yorker editor David Remnick would later write in his exhaustive look at Obama's life and career, The Bridge.  The problem, of course, is that Obama did not write either of his books in any meaningful way.

Obama goes techie with Wired magazine.  President Obama will "guest edit" Wired magazine's November issue, the publication and the White House announced Tuesday [8/30/2016].  "We want to wrestle with the idea of how today's technology can influence political leadership," Wired Chief Editor Scott Dadich explained about why he wanted the magazine to collaborate with the president.  "We want to explore how modern thinking and tools can help advance us as a society.  And who better to help us explore these ideas than President Obama?  He's one of the smartest, most thoughtful leaders this country has had in generations.  We are thrilled to be working with him."

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There is no evidence that Obama is "one of the smartest, most thoughtful leaders this country has had in generations."  There is a mountain of evidence to the contrary.  There is also considerable evidence that Mr. Obama's two books were written by someone else.  There is no reason to believe that Mr. Obama has any aptitude as a magazine editor.  He has never managed or owned a profit-making business in his life.

US President Obama mispronounces Lee Kuan Yew's name during White House welcome.  US President Barack Obama welcomed Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong to the US at an arrival ceremony on 2 August at the White House.  But the US President's address during the red-carpet greeting was not without a small gaffe.  According to the Washington Times, the US President mispronounced the name of Singapore's founding father Lee Kuan Yew.

It takes one to know one.  Now Obama is accusing Donald Trump of being "unfit" to be president.  Of being "woefully unprepared" and lacking "basic knowledge."  Fill in your own schoolyard cliche.  "I know you are but what am I?" People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones — Obama once said that he read that in the Bible.  And he puts the blast on someone else for lacking "basic knowledge."  Brave talk from a guy who thinks there are 57 states, that they speak Austrian in Austria, that they speak Arabic in Afghanistan, who pronounced the state he lived in for three years as "Mass-a-tu-setts," who pronounced corpsman as "corpseman."  Who thinks the Transcontinental Railroad was "intercontinental."

Trump:  Obama is 'the most ignorant president' in history.  President Barack Obama "has been the most ignorant president in our history," Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Wednesday [7/27/2016]. [...] "President Obama when he became president, he didn't know anything.  This guy didn't know a thing," Trump continued.  "And honestly, today he knows less.  Today, he knows less.  He has done a terrible job."

The Mind of the President, Still a Mystery After All These Years.  Obama is clearly a leftist radical who thinks that most of the problems of the world would be much less troublesome if the United States were not so involved with the world.  We are the problem, in his mind. [...] We are told that he is the most brilliant of all of our presidents, which I seriously doubt.  But how can this man, who has taken an oath to protect and defend the American people and the Constitution of the United States possibly view the bloody, senseless massacre in an Orlando night club and announce primly that "We are to blame, not Islamic terrorism, for the massacre."  He has no understanding of the office he holds, none at all.

This shows you how much Obama knows about guns:  Nothing!
Obama: Omar Mateen Had 'Glock Which Had A Lot of Clips in It'.  President Obama spoke to reporters Monday about the terrorist attack on the Pulse nightclub in Orlando and said Omar Mateen had a "Glock which had a lot of clips in it."

Hillary Clinton and her qualifications.  The president said, "I don't think there's ever been someone so qualified to hold this office."  Really?  She would be equal to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan and himself?  Notice President Obama didn't say she is "more qualified," because that would diminish him, and when it comes to narcissism, Mr. Obama and the Clintons make Donald Trump look like a shrinking violet.  In his effusive praise of Mrs. Clinton, the president did not mention any specific accomplishments that might qualify her for the office.  That is because there are none.

Most Qualified for President?  President Obama did Hillary Clinton no favor when he announced that he doesn't think "there's ever been someone so qualified to hold this office."  Not to take anything away from Mrs. Clinton, who is, we can see, a formidable figure, but what was Mr. Obama thinking?  Is Hillary Clinton more qualified than George Washington?  He was the general who won the Revolutionary War, he was a delegate in both the First and Second Continental Congress, and chaired the constitutional convention.  By some measures, Mrs. Clinton isn't as qualified as Washington's horse, Nelson.

The Secret History:  Obama Is a Nincompoop.  A while back — I can no longer locate the post — I advanced the notion that Barack Obama is a hapless schmuck.  The theory was greeted with derision from both sides.  Leftists, of course, were furious because it's clear to them that even their president's failures are a product of his genius.  He's just too smart for the rest of us to comprehend what it is he's doing.  Rightists were upset because I had offended their certainty that Obama is evil.  Clearly every disaster of his administration was the result of his careful planning.  He hated America so much that he had schemed and connived to lose her wars and damage her economy, and what a brilliant job he'd done.  They were wrong.  I was right.  The man's a nincompoop.

Obama's Pretty Words Cannot Beautify His Ugly Economy.  [Scroll down]  "It is very hard to get good stories placed" about the economy, Obama whined to college journalists last week.  "People will assign you stories about what's not working.  It's very hard for you to write a story about, 'Wow, this thing really works good.'"

Barack Hussein Obama:  What's in a Name?  [Scroll down]  The fact is that Obama is not a president in the authentic sense of the term; he is a glittering name acting the role of president, and in this sense Shapiro is right, he is a "Hollywood president," a man with marquee presence and Stanislavski moves.  Similarly, Rush Limbaugh calls the president Barack Kardashian, connoting the man's celebrity allure and endemic shallowness.  Some actors, however, few as they may be, do have a core personality, intellectual marrow, and moral substance.  Obama does not, being in effect a mobile simulacrum of a cardboard cutout, which makes him as president of the United States not merely a joke and a lightweight but a disaster and a tragedy.

Foreign Newspapers Describe Barack Obama In One Word After Nuclear Summit.  UK and Israeli newspapers have one word for Obama — 'clown' — for flashing the peace sign as the photo of world leaders was taken at the end of what was a very serious two-day nuclear summit.  David Cameron looked on unfavorably and others looked bemused, laughing at him no doubt.  Russia didn't bother to attend.  When he wasn't censoring the French President for calling the danger what it is — Islamic terrorism — he was acting the part of the intellectually immature student and choom gang member in the Ché Guevara t-shirt.  After two days of discussing nuclear proliferation and hearing an urgent warning from David Cameron that ISIS terrorists are planning to use drones to spray nuclear material over Western cities in a horrific "dirty bomb" attack, Obama acted like a clown.

Obama plays the clown by flashing the peace sign for nuclear security summit 'team photo'.  After a day of tense, sensitive discussions on ISIS and the Middle East, Obama played up for the cameras as he grinned and held up the peace sign.  The President has come under fire for his relaxed attitude in recent weeks.  On a state visit to Argentina, he was seen dancing the tango with an attractive female dancer.  On a historic visit to Cuba, he went to a baseball game instead of returning to the United States to respond to the horrific terrorist attacks in Brussels.  Before that, Obama chose not to attend the funeral of former First Lady Nancy Reagan, electing to go to a music festival and eat tacos instead.

Cuban State Media: 'Negro' Obama 'Incited Rebellion and Disorder'.  The Havana Tribune, a state-controlled Cuban newspaper, has added insult to injury following Fidel Castro's scathing criticism of President Barack Obama upon his departure from the island.  In an editorial, the title of which refers to President Obama as "negro," an opinion columnist has accused him of "inciting rebellion."  The article is titled "Negro, ¿Tu Eres Sueco?" which roughly translates to "Black Man, Are You Dumb?"

Obama dances as the world reels from (more) terror attacks.  As soon as the terror in Brussels ended, the post-terror rituals began.  Photos and videos of the carnage emerged, victims were given names and faces and allies expressed their sorrow and pledged assistance.  Citizens of Brussels, following the lead of New Yorkers after 9/11 and Parisians after two attacks last year, created shrines and odes to the dead.  In America, security ramped up as millions feared their cities would be next, and officials vowed to harden our defenses in the fight against Islamic State.  Unfortunately, the rituals also include President Obama doing something stupid.

No, Mr. President, 1776 Wasn't Anything Like Castro's 1959 Putsch.  In his Tuesday [3/22/2016] address to the Cuban people, Obama declared that the communist takeover that led to the Castros' 57-year dictatorship was a "liberation movement," same as America's 1776 revolution.  Obama's well-known for his false equivalencies, but this one stands out for its idiocy.

The Man Who Thinks Austrian is a Language Complains Americans Don't Know Languages.  Our Beloved Leader continues his apology tour/vacation by telling foreigners how much America [lacks].  In Argentina, Obama complained that Americans don't speak foreign languages. [...] The term is Dummkopf.  We would also accept Debile.  Which in Austrian means "progressive genius who is always on the right side of history".  Somehow I doubt Obama can find Argentina on a map.

Grinning Imbecile Meets His Communist Heroes.  This revolting spectacle in Cuba is yet another reminder we've got an enemy in the White House.

Obama Posts NCAA Brackets Before SCOTUS Pick.  President Barack Obama revealed his 2016 NCAA basketball tournament brackets hours before revealing his choice to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court.  Obama has made an annual spectacle of his bracket picks, leading critics to content that he spends more time on basketball, and on pop culture in general, than he does on addressing the nation's urgent priorities.

Michelle Obama on young Barack: 'He was a bum'.  President Barack Obama has always been candid about his youthful transgressions — a history his wife referenced Tuesday [1/26/2016] when explaining anyone can become a high achiever.  "Barack fooled around in high school," the first lady said on the BET talk-show "The Real" during a session focused on higher education.  "He didn't take school seriously in high school.  He barely got his work done.  He was a bum!  And it took him a second.  He had to grow up a little bit," she said.

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No, that doesn't explain how "anyone can become a high achiever."  It only shows how easily a simpleton can get promoted beyond the level of his ability if he's black, and somebody else writes his books and speeches.

Michelle Obama reveals what Barack was like as a student.  Michelle Obama has revealed her husband 'barely got his work done' and instead 'fooled around' during high school.  The First Lady urged college pupils to work hard citing it was 'never too late' to do well as she opened up about Barack Obama's past in a candid interview.

Nobody over-estimates Barack H. Obama's intelligence more than Obama himself.
Former Sec Def Bob Gates: Obama Thinks He's The Smartest Person In The Room.  Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who served during the Obama administration, has turned into a harsh critic of the president, saying that Barack Obama always thinks he's the smartest person in the room.  Gates also bashed Obama for bringing on advisers who do little else but constantly agree with his proposals, fostering a group-think environment where dissenting opinion essentially does not exist, The Free Beacon reports.  In other words, there are no "strong" people around the president.  And when there is dissent, Obama tries to crush it.

'The United States is 200 and, er — 50 years': Obama struggles to work out America's age.  President Barack Obama had trouble on Wednesday [1/13/2016] working out the math to determine the age of the country he has led for the last seven years, stammering that the United States is 250 years old.  The Second Continental Congress declared the independence of the U.S. in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776 — in the Declaration of Independence — making the country a hair older than 239-and-a-half.

The Editor says...
C'mon, Barry.  You've been told a hundred times — just read whatever President Jarrett loads into the teleprompter.  Don't try to think for yourself, because you can't do it.

Here's what 'constitutional scholar' Obama really taught at law school.  Among the lies about himself Obama consistently repeats is that he was a constitutional law professor.  Lie one:  Obama was never a professor; he was a lecturer.  He did not have the qualifications to be a professor.  Obama never published a single law paper.  He was hired by the University of Chicago when they learned he had been given a book contract on race and law directly after graduating from Harvard.  There was no book — just the contract, which he later reneged on. [...] Lie two:  Obama did not specialize in the Constitution.  Obama cared about and taught only one subject:  race.  One course was about race in the Constitution.  It is on this flimsy basis that he attempts to pawn himself off as a constitutional scholar. [...] Lie three:  Obama calls himself a constitutional law prof to imply that he loves the Constitution.  Obama gives the lie to this himself.  He is on record — literally, a radio interview done when he was a lecturer — slamming the Supreme Court's interpretation of the Constitution because they never tried to invent a right to "redistribute wealth" — a failing he describes as a "tragedy of the civil rights movement."

Mark Penn: Obama Said The 'Stupidest Thing Ever Said By A President'.  Mark Penn, who owns a public relations firm handling communications for the Barack Obama Foundation, credited Obama with uttering the "stupidest thing ever said by a president in foreign policy."  In a March 2012 email sent to Hillary Clinton's private email address, Penn lambasted Obama for his statement to then-Russian President Dmitri Medvedev that he would "have more flexibility" on missile defense issues after the 2012 election.  "This could be about the stupidest thing ever said by a president in foreign policy," wrote Penn.  "To explicitly say that he is laying low on nuclear defense policies because of his election right now and tell your opponent that is to politicize all foreign policy, evidence weakness that can be exploited by others, and undermine the administration's credibility."

[Hillary] Clinton [was] advised to consider resigning as secretary of state after Obama's Russia comments.  A key Hillary Clinton adviser told her that she may have to consider resigning as secretary of state after President Obama was caught telling Russia's president off-mic early in 2012 that he could make more concessions on missile defense after November's U.S. elections.  In addition, Mark Penn told Mrs. Clinton that Mr. Obama's not-so-secret words "may be about the stupidest thing ever said by a president in foreign policy."

Obama Says US Is Only Country With Mass Shootings.  In Paris.  Where 130 People Just Got Shot.  On Tuesday [12/1/2015], [Barack H.] Obama continued digging himself deeper on issues ranging from abortion to ISIS.  But his most laughable line came with relation to the Colorado Springs shooting outside the Planned Parenthood facility:  "This just doesn't happen in other countries."  He said this in Paris.  Yes, Paris.  The place where just three weeks ago, 130 people were murdered in a mass shooting attack by ISIS.  The place where just last January, 12 people were murdered at Charlie Hebdo offices and at a kosher deli in an ISIS attack.

Obama Just Said the Most Stunningly Idiotic Thing EVER.  Is Mr. Obama so invested in talking down to America, does he so despise the United States he cannot conceive that terrible tragedies do in fact occur elsewhere around the world?  Or when he is given a script does he not have the mental capacity to see beyond that script and realize how it does not apply to the real-world situation he finds himself in?  It should be said again — if this was a Republican president who said something so stunningly inaccurate and insensitive there would be open calls from the media to investigate his mental competence.

Cloudy with a chance of mass murder.  "Next week, I will be joining President Hollande and world leaders in Paris for the global climate conference," President Obama said ahead of the event that began this week.  "What a powerful rebuke to the terrorists it will be, when the world stands as one and shows that we will not be deterred from building a better future for our children."  One could hardly blame the leadership of the Islamic State if they had a hearty laugh at this peculiar response to its attacks on Paris last month.

Obama's Top 8 Idiotic Statements in Paris.  While traveling in Paris, Obama dropped one rhetorical bombshell after another, all laced with toxic doses of ignorance and foolishness.  Here are his top eight:  [#1] Obama Says That The Climate Change Conference Represents "An Act of Defiance That Proves Nothing Will Deter Us."  Yes, clearly ISIS is sitting around waiting for the world to give the go-ahead to further carbon emissions — and President Obama has thwarted their evil plans by refusing to cater to such environmental brutality.

Krauthammer: Obama Lives in His Own 'Idealistic and Deluded, Undergrad Imagination'.  Monday [11/30/2015] on Fox News Channel's "Special Report," Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer took aim at President Barack Obama for his remarks earlier in the day at the COP21 conference in Paris earlier in the day regarding climate change and the global war on terror.  According to Krauthammer, Obama's rhetoric reflects a idealistic and deluded imagination and anything put forth will go nowhere because it would not make it through the U.S. Senate, which has to ratify treaties.  "Because this president lives in a world of his ... idealistic and deluded, undergraduate imagination," Krauthammer said.  "This is as if the League of Nations and the U.N. and everything in between hadn't happened."

"Historians" For Obama.  Michael Beschloss: "...this is a guy (Barack Obama) whose IQ is off the charts..."  [Don] Imus:  "Well.  What is his IQ?"  Historian Michael Beschloss:  "Pardon?"  Imus:  "What is his IQ?"  Historian Michael Beschloss:  "Uh.  I would say it's probably — he's probably the smartest guy ever to become President."  Really?  The "unbiased" but clearly in-the-tank for Obama "historian" Beschloss thinks Obama is the "smartest guy ever to become president."  Okay.  Based on what?  The SAT scores Obama won't release.  The college transcripts from Occidental College that Obama won't release.  The transcripts from Columbia that Obama won't release.  Any existing IQ scores that Obama won't release.

Obama Is Our Smartest President?  Historian Michael Beschloss was interviewed Monday [11/10/2008] on Don Imus' radio show and he made the claim that President-elect Obama's IQ is off the charts and that he is the smartest president we have ever had.

The incompetence of our neo-monarchy.  So, if I follow correctly, the smartest president ever is not smart enough to ensure that his website works; he's not smart enough to inquire of others as to whether his website works; he's not smart enough to check that his website works before he goes out and tells people what a great website experience they're in for.  But he is smart enough to know that he's not stupid enough to go around bragging about how well it works if he'd already been informed that it doesn't work.  So he's smart enough to know that if he'd known what he didn't know he'd know enough not to let it be known that he knew nothing.  The country's in the very best of hands.

The Bottomless Ignorance of Barack Obama.  Liberals have gushed from the beginning on how brilliant Barack Obama is, and point from time to time to the fact that he was a professor of constitutional law (!) at the University of Chicago, one of the nation's premier law schools.  Of course, if you actually check on what he taught there, it was trendy lefty stuff like a course entitled "Race and the Law" which was devoted exclusively to the creative uses of the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment, which to many [a] liberal is the entire constitution.

Our Bitter and Graceless President.  We all know people of towering arrogance and we all know people of staggering incompetence, but Barack Obama is quite possibly the perfect package.  No one on the scene today combines these two qualities in quite the same way as Mr. Obama. [...] Now most of us, with this almost unblemished record of ineptness, might feel some embarrassment.  We might show a touch of self-reflection.  And we would at least resist the temptation to lecture others.  But not Mr. Obama.  In his press conference in Turkey earlier this week, the president was prickly, petulant, condescending and small-minded.

Obama's Disastrous Press Conference.  [Barack H. Obama is] a remarkable man, in all the wrong ways.  He is the apotheosis of progressivism, the avatar and godling that is the living embodiment of all their cowardices, lies, hypocrisies, self-flatteries, and stupidities.  One self-flattery they're fond of is claiming they have "evidence-based" reasoning, not ideology-based reasoning, and that their minds are supple things that readily incorporate new information and plot new strategies accordingly.  Obama is the ultimate exemplar of this fiction.  He claims that he's always interested in "whatever works" and he's constantly engaging in high-level cognition about the world, and yet no matter what the news, no matter how badly his strategies and ideological priors have been shown to fail, he clings to them with the devotion of a child to his woobie.

In desperate times, deception destroys.  In circles of recovery it's sometimes referred to as "the gift of desperation," that moment when it becomes crystal clear to an addict that a change must be made, that returning to the old ways is simply not an option anymore. [...] Hours before ISIS madmen turned Paris into a killing field, our president appeared on "Good Morning America" to calmly assure us the menace they represent had been "contained," even as they were putting the final touches on their imminently savage attacks.  How can he be that clueless?  It's frightening.

Press says Obama flopped on '60 Minutes'.  In response to questions about what it he thinks for the United States to be global leader, and how he intends to respond Putin's moves in the Middle East, the president said, "My definition of leadership would be leading on climate change, an international accord that potentially we'll get in Paris.  My definition of leadership is mobilizing the entire world community to make sure that Iran doesn't get a nuclear weapon. [...]"

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Obama is apparently doing everything he can to provide Iran with nuclear weapons, while claiming the opposite.  And when asked about Russia advancing in the Middle East, he started blithering about global warming.  The man is a simpleton.

The D.C. Idiocracy: Remember The Really Dumb Kids In School? They're Now In Charge Of Your Life.  Barack Obama cut a deal with Iran to supposedly stop it from getting nukes.  Setting aside the fact that it doesn't do that, Iran is holding four American hostages.  Obama didn't even bother to demand that they be freed before he began releasing billions of dollars to Iran.  He also allowed Iran to inspect its own nuclear sites.  Think about that.  We think Iran is working on nuclear weapons; |so to prove that it's not, we're going to let Iran inspect its own sites and say, "Nope, there's certainly nothing nefarious going on here.  Take our word for it, Great Satan!"  To top it all off, Obama admits the money we're releasing to Iran will be used to fund terrorism.  I know that Obama thinks that whole "war on terrorism" thing is passé, but should we really be funding terrorists who hate us now?  Is there ever a good time for that?

This May Be Obama's Dumbest Gun Control Argument Yet.  Obama is determined to fight his gun control Jihad and attempted to exploit the racist murder of two white reporters by pushing his own political agenda in the dumbest way possible.  "It breaks my heart every time you read about or hear about these kinds of incidents," Obama said.  "What we know, is that the number of people who die from gun-related incidents around this country dwarfs any deaths that happen through terrorism."  Since the set of people killed by guns includes terrorist attacks, this is a stupid and meaningless thing to say.

Obama Butchers Name of American Hostage Held in Iran.  During President Obama's speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Obama called for the release of the five American hostages.  While saying Rezaian's name, Obama mispronounced his name, rolled his eyes, and tried again.  He then ran through the rest of the hostages' names.

Is Obama Stupid, Or Evil?  Is Obama just a moron, an incompetent, a fool, a nitwit as the country falls apart around him?  Or is he destroying the USA on purpose because he is evil?

The oaf of office:
President Obama takes question from 'Davy Crockett' during Tennessee town hall event, asks him where his beaver cap is.  Barack Obama met a modern King of the Wild Frontier at an Obamacare event Wednesday [7/1/2015] — who prompted him to burst into song yet again.  The man introduced himself as Davy Crockett at the town hall session before asking the President a question.  Obama replied:  'Is your name really Davy Crockett?  That's a cool name!  But you don't have that beaver cap?'

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What kind of a moron makes fun of somebody else's name and then starts singing about it?  Anyone over the age of ten should know better.  And anyway, Davy Crockett wore a coonskin cap.*

Obama and the Black Intellectualoids.  Barack Obama owes his position to his membership in a class that is destroying America:  the intellectualoids — shallow people able to fool others into believing they possess superior intellects. [...] Now when I had previously referred to Barack Obama as a small man, I meant his intellect, or more specifically his poorly trained mind.  I believe that Obama is a fundamentally slothful person, with an intellect to match, who has been allowed to hide this vice from everyday people because of Ivy League pageantry.  He is an example of an "intellectualoid," someone with the general appearance of a man or woman of deep learning, but lacking the breadth of knowledge and depth of reason to generate new ideas of utility and significance.

Self-Invention Jumps the Shark.  Pretending to be something one is not for social and other advantage is fairly common.  We have now, for example, a president who duped the elite opinion makers into thinking he was a genius, though there's never been evidence of that, and he refuses to ever release his academic records.  In that regard he was following in the footsteps of others like Adlai Stevenson, whom the smart set regarded as brilliant compared to his opponent Dwight D. Eisenhower. Hidden from the public by Dean Erwin Griswold was the fact that Adlai had actually flunked out of Harvard Law School which, had it been known, would have made clear that Eisenhower, the successful Allied commander, was the more capable leader.

No Strategy. No Clue.  We were 589 days into the two terms Barack Hussein Obama has served in the office of President of the United States and he is as clueless now as he was when he arrived on January 20, 2009. [...] The Islamic State troops must be stopped at some point, but Obama is not the President who will do it.  Whatever U.S. backed combat occurs will be just enough to present enough television news images to convince the gullible that progress is being made.  Obama arrived in office without any strategy and has spent the last six and a half years "muddling through" as the British say.  He and the Democratic Party had only one goal; to win the elections.  After that, they wanted to "fundamentally transform" the greatest nation on planet Earth.  They have largely made a mess out of everything they touched from ObamaCare to Common Core.

Obama Says Iran Won't Be More Dangerous with an Extra $150 Billion Dollars.  The Goldberg interview with Obama reads like a conversation with an idiot.  Actually make that two idiots, both of whom are also compulsive liars.

We Have to Talk About Obama's Ignorance.  Yes, Obama is a clumsy public speaker; but that's not the problem, nor is it worth spending much time on.  The problem is that Obama tends to make mistakes that stem from a worldview often at odds with reality. [...] They're not just minor gaffes or verbal blunders.  They serve as a window into the mind of a president who acts as if a history of the world before yesterday could fit on a postcard.

Bad news for the Choom Gang:
Study Shows Heavy Adolescent Pot Use Permanently Lowers IQ.  A study more than thirty years in the making found that smoking marijuana permanently lowers intelligence, or IQ.  Frequent pot smokers (even those who had given up marijuana) tended to have deficits in memory, concentration, and overall IQ.  The reduction in IQ for those who smoked pot heavily prior to age 18 was most pronounced:  an average of eight points.  An eight point reduction in IQ is enough to have a significant, negative impact upon your life.

Krauthammer: Obama Saying No Nation Should Dominate Another "Single Stupidest Remark" Uttered By A President.  ["]Let me remind you of the first grade speech that Obama made about foreign policy.  He was at the U.N. in 2009 and he actually said no nation can or should dominate another.  Without a doubt the single stupidest remark about foreign policy ever uttered by a president of the United States.  He continues to say no balance of power can ever endure and he went on to say that no alliance based on the divisions of the Cold War, the obsolete divisions of the Cold War, makes any sense in this century.["]

Krauthammer: This is the Stupidest Line Ever Uttered by a US President.  [Video clip]

A Magic Pen And An Empty Suit.  President Obama is a genius, or so we are told.  We have nothing on which to base that except the word of people who would find a way to praise him if he held a press conference while throwing live puppies into a wood chipper.  So forgive me if I don't swallow the hook on that line.

Regular pot smokers have shrunken brains, study says.  Experimental mice have been telling us this for years, but pot-smoking humans didn't want to believe it could happen to them:  Compared with a person who never smoked marijuana, someone who uses marijuana regularly has, on average, less gray matter in his orbital frontal cortex, a region that is a key node in the brain's reward, motivation, decision-making and addictive behaviors network.

Obama: Born-Again Idiot.  The quintessential question of Watergate was "what did the President know and when did he know it?" Obamagate, the vast scandal that encompasses an entire presidency, offers a preemptive answer.  Obama didn't know anything and he never knew it.  At least not until, like smuggling weapons to druglords, bugging journalists, IRSing his political enemies and killing vets, his right hand found out about what his left hand was doing from the morning paper.  After skipping 58% of his daily intelligence briefings in Term 1 and 59% of them in Term 2, he went on 60 Minutes and blamed intelligence agencies for being caught by surprise by ISIS.  The intelligence had been there all along, but Obama wasn't just missing his 3 AM phone calls — he was also skipping the 3 PM phone calls while golfing with the CEO of Comcast, friendly hedge fund managers and assorted lobbyists.

What sets Obama apart is his ideological rigidity and fathomless ignorance.  Serious people feel an obligation to listen whenever Barack Obama speaks.  They furrow their brow and hold their chin and parse every word.  They assume that most everything a president says is significant, which is true.  They assume that what's significant must also be well-informed.  Not necessarily.

Obama: The Affirmative Action President.  President Barack Obama is the perfect "Low Information President."  He is not really interested very much in doing his job.  He doesn't know anything going on in his own administration.  He is always the last to know.  He learns important developments only when he reads about it in the newspaper, apparently after first reading the sports section.  But Obama is keenly interested in basketball.  He has turned his NCAA championship "brackets" predictions chart into a presidential event.  He is into music, movies, culture.  Obama is the "Pop Culture President." [...] President Obama has played over 160 rounds of golf in office.  Obama's White House has pickup basketball games with NBA basketball stars.  Obama knows who is up for Academy Awards.  He gets his news from Entertainment Tonight.

Infatuated with the New Deal.  [Scroll down]  Obama acted as if he's downright puzzled by the lack of hiring.  "I want to hear from CEOs about what's holding back our business investment and how we can increase confidence and spur hiring," he said.  "And if there are things that we're doing here in Washington that are inhibiting you, then we want to know about it."  Could the president really not have a clue about his administration's role in putting a chill on hiring?  I doubt it.  He couldn't be that oblivious.

Barack Obama blunders again on the world stage.  It is only two weeks since his re-election, and his second term remains two months away, but Barack Obama is already blundering again on the world stage, with the kind of gaffes that would have been plastered on the front page of The New York Times if they had been committed by George W. Bush when he was in the White House.  Obama's first term was littered with foreign policy gaffes, and there is every chance the second term will be more of the same.

The ill wind blowing past Benghazi.  The president himself is in Southeast Asia, mispronouncing the names of everyone he meets, and trying to play kissyface with Aung San Suu Kyi, the heroic woman who led the struggle to free Burma from the grip of evil generals.  In the photographs, the lady is trying to keep her mouth out of the way of Mr. Obama's kissing equipment.  The president was just being friendly, but she doesn't look as if she's enjoying herself.

Obama's Asia trip: No bows this time, but he did grab an awkward kiss.  For someone alleged to have grown up in Asia, Barack Obama is repeatedly clueless about customs there.  It's one thing if you're a tourist.  But as the president of the United States?

Obama Struggles With English, Facts On Twitter.  There are so many things wrong with this. For a president who has actually done some good things in terms of education reform, he's really struggling to construct a basic sentence.  Even with the limitations imposed by Twitter, President Obama still could have spelled out "the."

White House refers to 'Santa Clause,' twice.  That's right; The White House misspelled Santa Claus.

Is President Obama lazy?  Supporters tout his intelligence, yet nothing historical shows Obama as intellectually curious. [...] His transcripts and college thesis are mysteries. [...] He struggles without teleprompters, stuttering and stammering when veering from programmed scripts. [...] and nobody can find his publishings that would offer at least one indicator of his intelligence.

Why the Obamas Really lost their law licenses.  Barack Obama passed the bar exam in Illinois but never worked in a big firm because no firm would hire him.  He wanted to work for Sidley Austin (where Michelle worked) and he performed a summer internship there, but he was not offered a job there when he graduated from Harvard.  That is extremely unusual because Sidley Austin tries to snatch up as many black Ivy League graduates as it can get to constantly up its "diversity" profile.  It's bizarre that they didn't offer Obama a job... unless you remember that law firms have access to more than just a student's transcripts when decided on which graduates they want to pursue for positions in the firm.  Sidley Austin knew Barack was lazy and benefitted from constant affirmative action preferential treatment, and they didn't want to carry him along like that here in Chicago at their firm.

Explaining the Inexplicable.  The president really does believe that at some mythical date the capitalists and profit mongers have no choice but to get back to work and make tons of money, and that the resulting increased revenue will pay off the debt without cuts or hardship.  Therefore, he genuinely thought in 2009 that the stimulus would lead to the summer of recovery.  He believed that the first $4 trillion in debt would stimulate the economy, and so is surprised that we are still massively borrowing.

5 Reasons Barack Obama is a Creep.  Is Barack Obama the Vladimir Lenin of American Presidents?  No, Lenin was competent in an evil sort of way.  Obama is more like Leonid Brezhnev:  an ultra left-wing, belligerent doofus who isn't laughed at by the general population primarily because the mainstream media liberals say nice things about him out of fear that they'll end up in a gulag if they're too harsh.

Low Information Voters? How about a Low Information President?  There is a real possibility, a strong likelihood, that President Obama knows nothing of the nuts and bolts, the details and realities of the positions he promotes. [...] He drives the fancy car but needs help filling it with gas and couldn't point to the air filter if you popped the hood.  Imagery sans leadership.  Celebrity is the accomplishment here, and adoration is the metric.

Obama's insults expose his ignorance and mental laziness.  My theory about people who put down other people is that they're deeply insecure.  They think they can build themselves up by putting other people down.

Hapless Obama Announces Arrest of Dangerous Illegal Aliens He Let Go Last Week.  So Bammy, how's that sequester temper tantrum working out for you?  You're a national punchline after closing the White House tours and frankly should be facing impeachment for unleashing dangerous criminal illegals out onto the streets in a cheap, cynical political ploy.

Obama: Newtown Shooter Gunned Down 20 Children With 'Fully Automatic Weapon'.  At a fundraiser last night [4/3/2013] in San Francisco, President Barack Obama said that the Newtown killer gunned down 20 children using a "fully automatic weapon."

Obama: Newtown Shooter Used 'Fully Automatic Weapon'.  President Barack Obama doesn't know the barrel of a firearm from a hole in the ground.

Obama's Psychodramas.  In President Obama's State of the Union Address this February, he cited current inclement weather to argue for renewed efforts to implement some type of cap-and-trade taxes and to grant more subsidies of "sustainable energy" (e.g., wind and solar):  "Heat waves, droughts, wildfires, and floods — all are now more frequent and intense.  We can choose to believe that Superstorm Sandy, and the most severe drought in decades, and the worst wildfires some states have ever seen, were all just a freak coincidence.  Or we can choose to believe in the overwhelming judgment of science — and act before it's too late."  Such weather hysteria brings to mind candidate Obama's bizarre claim in May 2007 that the tornado in Greensburg, Kan., killed 10,000 people.

Barack Obama, the Great Bystander.  Obama didn't know the IRS was targeting conservatives until he read it in the papers.  He didn't know about "Fast and Furious" until he read it in the papers, too.  He has "complete confidence" in Holder, and didn't know about the decision to collect the phone records of reporters.  He didn't know about the investigation into CIA director David Petraeus's affair.  He told Letterman during the election he didn't know what the national debt was.  He didn't know about the AIG bonuses in the TARP legislation.  He said he didn't know how bad the economic crisis was when he took office.

No Moore: Obama flubs name of Oklahoma city devastated by tornado, calls it 'Monroe'.  During his visit to the Jersey Shore with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie Tuesday [5/28/2013], President Obama referred to the wrong city in Oklahoma devastated by a tornado last week.

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All he knows how to do is make speeches, and he can't even do that right.

Stupid.  "You're stupid," is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama.  But on Friday morning [5/24/2013] I picked up the Wall Street Journal and learned that the president had given a speech about the war on terror saying, "This war, like all wars, must end." [...] This war, like all wars, must end when someone wins it.  The president — speaking at the National Defense University, of all places — said, "the core of al Qaeda ... is on the path to defeat."  And so it may be.  But meanwhile, the core of al Qaeda, its aims and its beliefs, is also on the path to Boston and London and any number of other places.

Obama: We'll Be There for Folks of 'Monroe, Oklahoma'.  President Obama said the government would be there for the "folks in Monroe, Oklahoma after the devastation of last week" during his address on the Jersey Shore Tuesday afternoon [5/28/2013], making him the second Democrat Tuesday to call Moore, the city crushed by a tornado May 20, by the same incorrect name.

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This incident by itself doesn't prove that Mr. Obama is a dimwit, but it does show one of two similar things:  Either (A) he is so completely out of touch with the current events in his own country (i.e., he never watches Fox News or CNN) that he doesn't know the name of the city that was flattened by a tornado the previous week, which means he doesn't do his homework, or (B) he wasn't able to read the teleprompter clearly and thought it said Monroe when it really said Moore.  But (B) would require (A) to be true as well, unless he is unable to say anything that contracdicts the teleprompter.  In either case, he is unfit for politics.

Barack Obama's big oops moment at G8 summit.  US President Barack Obama repeatedly called British finance minister George Osborne "Jeffrey" at the G8 summit, media reported on Thursday [6/20/2013].  The US president said three times that he agreed fully with "Jeffrey" during his presentation on G8 host Britain's plans to crack down on tax avoidance, leaving Osborne red-faced.

Monoglot Obama.  President Obama told a German audience today that the U.S. lags behind other countries because Americans don't speak enough foreign languages. [...] Obama may be right that Americans should speak more foreign languages.  (Of course, that leaves aside the propriety of lambasting the people you lead while representing them in a foreign country.)  But it's a strange point for him, of all people, to make.  After all, Obama has no demonstrated facility for (or, indeed, interest in) foreign languages.  The self-proclaimed "citizen of the world" has conceded that he speaks no foreign languages.

The Parochial President.  Barack Obama is turning into a one-man gaffe machine.  "Obama repeatedly called British finance minister George Osborne 'Jeffrey' at the G8 summit."  [...] Earlier in the week, Obama made what the Scottish Catholic Observer construed as "an alarming call for an end to Catholic education in Northern Ireland".

Our Dim-Witted President.  The real Jeffrey Osborne was excited to hear about the mishap, and George Osborne was gracious about it.  But good grief:  the first obligation of a diplomat is to keep track of whom he is speaking to.  One can imagine the hilarity if George W. Bush had referred to Gordon Brown, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Prime Minister during his administration, as "James Brown," confusing the Prime Minister with his favorite R&B singer. [...] Would such a gaffe have been laughed off?  I doubt it.

Obama hits a wall in Berlin.  [Scroll down]  Shifting his strange focus from Russia's nuclear weapons, Obama said "we can... reject the nuclear weaponization that North Korea and Iran may be seeking."  Were Obama given to saying such stuff off the cuff, this would be a good reason for handcuffing him to a teleprompter.  But, amazingly, such stuff is put on his teleprompter and, even more amazing, he reads it aloud.  Neither the people who wrote those words nor he who spoke them can be taken seriously.

O's rotten road trip.  First he mistook Britain's chancellor of the exchequer for a soul singer, calling him Jeffrey Osborne instead of George.  Then he explained to an audience in sectarian Belfast that, in the interests of religious harmony, Catholics ought not to have their own schools.  Finally, sweating in the hot sun and without his TelePrompTer, he stumbled through a nearly incoherent speech at the Brandenburg Gate that almost nobody attended.

Obama: Ho Chi Minh Was Inspired by Our Founders.  President Obama hailed hard-core communist revolutionary Ho Chi Minh today as a pretty open guy who was actually inspired by the Founders.  Obama took a break from his jobs-pivot speeches to meet Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang at the White House.  The pair held joint remarks in the Oval Office afterward.

Obama claims Ho Chi Minh was fan of Founding Fathers.  Move over Jane Fonda, President Barack Obama has all but toppled you from that iconic anti-aircraft gun perch as as America's top Communist Viet Nam booster.  Talking to reporters as he stood beside Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang yesterday [7/25/2013], Obama told his biggest whopper to date:..."we discussed the fact that Ho Chi Minh was actually inspired by the U.S. Declaration of Independence and Constitution, and the words of Thomas Jefferson."

The Obama-Zinn connection.  From time to time, we have noted President Obama's lack of knowledge about American history.  The most recent manifestation — his claim that Ho Chi Minh was inspired by America's Founding Fathers — suggests that Obama's ignorance is to some extent willful.  It is, in any event, not accidental.  From Stanley Kurtz, we learn that Obama is a fan of the leftist historian Howard Zinn. [...] It shouldn't come as a surprise that President Obama had a special interest in the views of an anti-American historian.

Linking Jefferson To Ho Chi Minh [is] A New Low For Obama.  Few comparisons have been as odious as the one offered by the president linking one of the great mass murderers of history to one of America's Founding Fathers and authors of our liberty. [...] The 44th president conveniently forgot Vietnamese history and slandered ours by linking a founder of our democracy, Thomas Jefferson, to the mass murderer Ho Chi Minh.

President Obama calls the United States and Europe 'developing countries'.  You can imagine the derision that would have flowed from the liberal "mainstream media" if George W. Bush had referred to the United States as well as its European allies as "developing countries."  This is exactly the term he used in an interview with The New York Times, which has just been published. [...] As we've seen on a number of previous occasions, Barack Obama clearly struggles with his words when he is without his beloved teleprompter.

Obama: 'We Don't Have a Domestic Spying Program'.  President Obama tells comedian Jay Leno that "We don't have a domestic spying program."  He made the comment during a taping of Leno's TV show.  Obama also says the U.S. is not overreacting by closing some U.S. embassies for a week.  The president tells Leno, "The odds of dying in a terrorist attack are a lot lower than they are of dying in a car accident, unfortunately."

Great Orator Gaffes Again.  "The odds of people dying in a terrorist attack obviously are still a lot lower than in a car accident, unfortunately," President Obama told NBC's Jay Leno last night.  Wait, "unfortunately"?  Does the president really wish more Americans were killed in terrorist attacks?  Indeed, orders of magnitude more, since nationwide traffic fatalities typically run between 30,000 and 50,000 a year?

Ho Chi Minh, Obama's Freedom Fighter.  Ho Chi Minh was a committed Marxist-Leninist revolutionary who cut his teeth at Moscow's Lenin School.  He became one of the Soviet Comintern's most successful agents.  Among the testimonies to his efforts are the countless boat people from Vietnam who now live in America (many of whom voted for Obama).  But not only is Obama's statement nonsense; it's also the product of communist propaganda.

Obama can't remember Dr. Jill Biden's name or where the Gulf of Mexico is.  Yes, one could assume for the president that he meant "along the Gulf" AND "places like Charleston ... Savannah ... Jacksonville," none of which are on the Gulf of Mexico, just as we all would have assumed that's what George W. Bush meant in a moment of misspeaking, right?  But that's not what he said, and as with 57 states, I'm not as inclined to give the Smartest President of All Time as much slack as, say, the AP gave him by fixing up the quote.

ABC, CBS and NBC Overlook Obama's Gaffe-tastic Performance on Leno.  Barack Obama delivered one gaffe after another in his August 6 interview with Jay Leno, but the networks that usually mock every mistake or slip of the tongue made by Republicans ignored the President's verbal mishaps.

AP Admits Covering Up Obama's 'Gulf' Gaffe.  During his Wednesday [8/7/2013] appearance on Jay Leno's "Tonight Show,' President Obama made three factual gaffes; one of them involved the claim that cities not found along the Gulf of Mexico are.  Were Obama a Republican, these gaffes would have led news coverage for the next forty-eight hours.  Not only did most of the media ignore or downplay these gaffes; the Associated Press went so far as to cover one of them up.

Obama Flubs Mayor of Buffalo's Name.  President Barack Obama flubbed the mayor of Buffalo's name, calling him Brian Higgins instead of Byron Brown.

Obama's Latest Gaffe: 'Like Eating Your Corn Seed'.  Somebody should tell President Obama to forget the folksy metaphors.  The prez sounds phony mouthing them, and since they are unfamiliar to him, he's apt to get them wrong.  As was the case at today's townhall at Binghamton University, when Obama claimed that reducing spending on government programs would be "like eating your corn seed."  You might have thought the man from Illinois would have known that the phrase is "eating your seed corn."

The Buck Stops Here.  "First of all, I didn't set a red line," Barack Obama said today at a press conference in Stockholm.  "The world set a red line.  The world set a red line when governments representing 98% of the world's population said the use of chemical weapons are [sic] abhorrent and passed a treaty forbidding their use, even when countries are engaged in war."

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This is more proof that Barack H. Obama can't get a subject and verb to agree, either verbally or in print.

Obama, the First Lord of the Admiralty.  Our entertainment tonight is the comic Commander who doesn't know a deep-water port from a riverbank, the Atlantic seaboard from the Gulf of Mexico, has never encountered a U.S. Navy corpsman, instead refers to one as a "corpseman", can't distinguish the living from the dead on Memorial Day, thinks a handshake is as good as a salute, uses a U.S. Marine as a personal valet in a rain shower, and who believes Hawaii is in Asia.

Lies or stupidity's got Obama's tongue.  [Scroll down]  After all, this is the same guy who closed Gitmo — right?  And once said on national television that he was of the "Muslim faith," until Democrat Kool-Aid drinker George Stephanopoulos had to remind him that he is a Christian.  When he was trying to sell a book he said he was born in Kenya, and when he was running for president he said he was born in the U.S.  Dr. Obama has said, among other things, that kidney problems require patients to have "Breathalyzers," that the United States built the "intercontinental" railroad, and that if every motorist would just properly inflate their tires, the energy crisis would be over.  Fifty-seven states. [...]

Obama's Supposed Brilliance Is Very Much In Question.  I mean no disrespect to the president or his admirers, but where is the proof that he is "brilliant?"  Any real proof. [...] Again, even supporters of President Obama who declare him "brilliant" because he speaks well with the aid of a teleprompter from words written by others may admit he is often factually and grammatically challenged without his rhetorical crutch.

Obama Claims Raising Debt Ceiling Doesn't Boost Debt.  In a speech to the Business Roundtable this week covered by CNSnews.com, Obama added this gem to the budget debate:  "Raising the debt ceiling, which has been done over a hundred times, does not increase our debt; it does not somehow promote profligacy."  What?  This kind of gibberish is a big reason voters have so little faith in their public officials these days.  Suffice it to say that if the debt ceiling has been raised "over a hundred times" and each time the debt went higher, one would have to conclude there's a very high — indeed, perfect — correlation between a higher debt ceiling and higher debt.

Pelosi: GOP just doesn't like Obama.  Nancy Pelosi, the top Democrat in the U.S. House, seems to believe that Republicans don't like President Obama because they're jealous.  "You know why it is," Pelosi told Politico in an interview.  "He's brilliant ... He thinks in a strategic way in how to get something done ... and he's completely eloquent.

Obama Proves Just How Smart He Isn't.  For years I have heard many credible people, even those on the political right touting how smart and what a great orator Obama is.  In fact, he isn't smart.  He is manipulative, and when he has a ministry of propaganda (the press / media) to convince others, he can look like pretty much anything he likes.  The same is true of his speaking skills.  Sure, he can read a teleprompter with the best of them, but take it away and his skills disappear.

Judge Jeanine Humiliates Obama: 'If You're So Brilliant...'.  Judge Jeanine outright mocked Obama, and his "cheerleader" Nancy Pelosi on a variety of issues on her FOX News show Saturday, specifically, Pelosi's slobbering affirmations of Obama's so-called "brilliance."  [Video clip]

Obama's Shutdown and Public Choice Theory.  More and more, as we Americans trudge through the mire of the Obama years, we have to ask if the president is just plain ignorant.

The ObamaCare Black Hole.  One thing that the past few weeks have accomplished is the total destruction of Obama's "towering intellect" persona.  This is one the standard lenses through which Obama is viewed, with differing but complimentary angles from each end of the spectrum:  the liberal "reigning intellect of his age" as opposed to the conservative "master chess player with a plan for destruction."  The basis of Obama's reputation for intellectual superiority lies in a mixture of Democratic propaganda and PC indoctrination. [...] He is connected with no intellectual circles or movements, as Reagan was.  He has no known hobbies or interests of an intellectual nature.

The Universal Obamaphone.  President Obama has shown an alarming tendency to be unaware of most everything.  To begin with, he was unaware that the NSA was spying on world leaders until he read about it in the papers.  Although he argued that Obamacare would let Americans keep their existing plans, his administration apparently knew all along that millions would lose — have already lost — their coverage.  How to explain this contradiction?  Well, Obama was probably unaware of what Obamacare would do also.  Why, he didn't even know there were problems with the Obamacare website until two days after it launched, despite the fact that nobody could seem to log on to it!

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I doubt if anyone in the White House is really that stupid.  Mr. Obama has to be lying when he says he is unaware of all the scandals surrounding his administration.  However, Mr. Obama seems quite proud to make those claims, apparently believing his willful ignorance will protect him from the inevitable fallout.  In other words, he's not too bright, but he's assuming that you're even dumber than he is.

The media in panic that Obama is the 'nowhere man sitting in his nowhere land'.  The media is concerned that President Obama looks detached, aloof and any other word synonymous to disconnected.  They don't understand how the smartest man to ever take the oath knows so little of what is going on around him.

Mika Suggests Obama 'Too Smart' For The Job.  Too smart to be President.  Is that really Barack Obama's problem? Mika Brzezinski thinks so.  On today's [11/4/2013] Morning Joe, as Mike Barnicle and John Heilemann kicked around the notion, as others have before, that President Obama doesn't much like politics and the people in it, Brzezinski piped up with a different explanation for his aloofness:  he's "too smart for the job," she suggested.

Obama: The Most Dangerous of Morons.  Have you ever noticed how many of these "really smart" people there are in government?  It's a magnet for morons, and it seems every [last] one of them is portrayed by the media as a genius in his own right.  Yet, they never seem to be able to do anything but make things worse, and usually much worse.  These are America's morons and Barry is their leader. [...] A moron can be productive — providing he knows his limitations and can use what God has given him within those limitations.  A dangerous moron, however, is all arrogance and bluster, always convinced that every one of his incompetent actions and the inevitable results, are actually brilliant successes and if not, somebody else's fault.  Dangerous morons hate to admit they were wrong.  They are also incapable of feeling shame or guilt.

Maybe Barack Obama is just inferior.  Obama's story of failure is his ideology, not race.  He has terrible ideas, and he implements those terrible ideas terribly.  Inferior.  What other word describes a man not good at anything?  Those praising his campaigning abilities require clarification.  What other word describes a man not good at anything that matters?

Does Obama Have Any Idea What Is Going On In His Own Administration?  One of the books on Chappaquiddick describes how the Kennedy brain trust gathered at the family compound in Hyannis Port to plot a strategy to salvage Ted Kennedy's career.  One person conspicuously absent from the conclave was Teddy himself.  He was on the beach, flying a kite.  The family's advisers considered him too stupid to make any contribution to saving his own skin.  Is that how senior members of Obama's administration treat him?  Is he considered a useless fifth wheel?

Obama's Slow Learning Curve.  Much of the controversy concerns the propriety of the president's declining to enforce a duly enacted law (bearing his signature) whose constitutionality he does not doubt, and whether insurance companies will be able to abruptly change course after three years of preparing to comply with their elaborate and interwoven legal obligations under Obamacare.  But perhaps the president's most astonishing statement involved an insouciant confession of ignorance.  Returning to a common but under-appreciated motif of his presidency, Obama remarked:  "What we're also discovering is that insurance is complicated to buy."

What if It's All True?  [Scroll down]  To put it bluntly, Occam's Razor has moved.  Things that were once possibilities now seem almost certainties to me.  Principal among those is that Obama's academic records are perpetually unavailable for a reason — and that reason is most likely that they reveal he received financial preferences, scholarships and/or loans, as a foreign student.  They probably also reveal academic mediocrity, but that's par for the course for many of our politicians (except it becomes embarrassing in Obama's case where he has the reputation of being brilliant).

Obama Is Too Smart to Fail.  What makes Obama a genius?  It's not his IQ.  It's probably not his grades or we would have seen them already.  It's that he makes his supporters feel smart.  The perception of intelligence is really a reflection. [...] Self-esteem is the new intelligence.  Obama's intelligence was manufactured by pandering to the biases and tastes of his supporters.  The more he shared their biases and tastes, the smarter he seemed to be and the smarter they felt by having so much in common with such a smart man.

Obama Goes Bronze.  At this juncture, none but the most irretrievably deluded is going to confuse Barack Obama with a genius — or even with someone who is possessed of anything beyond what amount to today's standard allotment in regard to intellectual ability.  But who cares?  Whatever else the Columbia (?) and Harvard Law matriculated Oval Office occupier is, he's the first black and gay president — and that's what matters of course.  This might be half the reason why nobody really blinked when, last year around election time, the Commander-in-Chief remarked to Jay Leno as follows:  "the math stuff I was fine with until about seventh grade... and but Malia's now a freshman in high school and... uh... I'm pretty lost... you know... it... it's tough... Yeah, it's "tough." [...] What exactly is on those transcripts of his, anyway?  Isn't it about time we found out?

Fact-Free Liberals.  President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again.  Economic equality?  That was tried in the 19th century, in communities set up by Robert Owen, the man who coined the term "socialism."  Those communities all collapsed.

Is Obama Stupid and Lazy?  Although that's quite a provocative question, evidence is mounting that Obama may not be as intelligent as his supporters and cheerleaders in the media constantly assure us.  The reality may be that Obama is mostly a creation of the liberal media.  Indeed, the more we dig into his past, the more we find very little substance and discover how a network of liberal professors, law firms, and others, gave him a pass on performance while he pursued his political agenda.

Why Obama is Uneducated.  [Scroll down]  This brings us to another fiction: Barack Obama as educated man.  If we were to mention, again, that he thought "Austrian" was spoken in Austria, pronounced "corpsman" "corpse-man" (three times in one speech) or that he called the "transcontinental" railroad the "intercontinental" one (Amtrak to Bangkok, anyone?), we'd obviously have to be racists. [...] The point is that there was no prominent person in the young Obama's life who could or would expose him to reality.  It was all anti-American, anti-Western isms and destructive schism.  This brings us to Obama's mind-numbingly ridiculous description of his 2008 campaign travels:  "I've now been in 57 states; I think, one left to go."  Where does such a bizarre mistake come from?

If He Believes It, It Must Be So.  On the eve of the Netanyahu visit to Washington, President Obama gave a lengthy interview to Jeffrey Goldberg that shows a chief executive who has learned next to nothing about the world in his five years in office.  First, kudos to Goldberg:  he pressed Obama repeatedly, challenging vague formulations and seeking clarity.  Goldberg pushed Obama hard, especially on Iran and Syria.  Obama isn't good off the cuff, especially when challenged; he is far better with a prepared speech.  And what emerged is an awful portrait of the president and his conception of the world.

Dan Quayle moment? Obama flubs spelling of 'respect'.  Could a White House spell-off be in the works between President Obama and former Vice President Dan Quayle?  In a throwback to the latter's infamous misspelling of the word "potato," Obama accidentally misspelled "respect" while introducing singer Aretha Franklin during a tribute to "Women of Soul" at the White House Thursday [3/6/2014].  "When Aretha first told us what ... R-S-P-E-C-T meant to her," Obama said, pausing briefly before the audience began laughing, apparently realizing his mistake.

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Imagine the press reaction if GW Bush had done this while attempting to be hip and cool.

WH transcript scrubs Obama's botched 'respect' misspelling.  The White House stenographer appears to have given President Obama a little too much "respect."  Introducing soul legend Aretha Franklin at a White House performance Thursday night, the president flubbed the spelling of her signature song.  "When Aretha first told us what R-S-P-E-C-T meant to her..." Obama said, prompting laughter from the crowd. [...] But anyone reading the official transcript of the event provided by the White House would have had no idea of the president's mistake.  In that version, the president correctly spells out the word.

Obama botches spelling of "respect" while lauding Aretha Franklin.  Mr. Obama paid tribute to Franklin for turning her signature song "Respect" into "a rallying cry for African-Americans, women and then everyone who felt marginalized."  The pumped-up audience gave a hearty laugh but was more than willing to forgive the president for spelling it "R-S-P-E-C-T."  In addressing the crowd, Mr. Obama said, "When Aretha first told us what R-S-P-E-C-T meant to her..."  He was interrupted by laughter, paused, then continued, [...]

R-S-P-E-C-T: Find out what it means for Obama.  The president evoked laughter in the East Room when he spelled Miss Franklin's song, "R-S-P-E-C-T."  To make matters worse, in the song itself, the Queen of Soul belts out the correct spelling.  Three pool reporters at the event heard the president misspell the word, and verified it on audio recordings.  But the White House's official transcript of the event portrayed Mr. Obama as spelling the word correctly.

Too busy to be president.  Conservatives had this guy figured out early in the first campaign, and they were spot on.  No record, no experience, no consistency, no integrity, no background, no evidence of morals, no normal friends or associates, and no supporters who cared more about their country than about their silly self-congratulation over electing the first black man who seemed just like them: unserious.  If we assume that the president is even half as smart as we've been told he is, which would still make him the smartest person ever to live, you'd think he would have picked up some skills along the way, or gained some firsthand experience that might come in handy.

Obama Admits He's 'Technologically Challenged'.  Speaking at a White House screening of the new movie "Cesar Chavez" today, President Obama told the audience he couldn't stay to watch, but that he would get a copy on a "CD."  "I cannot stay for the screening.  I've been promised by our director that I'm — or producer or somebody is going to get me the CD," he said.  "DVD," an audience member corrected him, to chuckles.

Helpless without a teleprompter.
Deep Thoughts by Barack Obama.  Obama's deep thoughts serve a useful purpose.  It's time to think seriously about weakness.  Weakness takes many forms.  Weakness doesn't get much weaker than this.  [Video clip]

President 'Forgets' Georgia Will Join NATO.  Speaking at the press conference after the EU-US summit yesterday [3/26/2014] the US President wrongly suggested that Georgia "is not currently on a path to NATO membership".  In fact the country has been on the path to membership since 2008.

Obama is Bursting the Left's Bubbles.  This is the secret of Obama's appeal, and the explanation of the long-pondered mystery of what he's really up to, what his actual goal is.  The truth is, there is no goal.  Or rather, the goal, the plan, involves simply lighting up all those bereft and chilly bubbles abiding in major urban areas, college towns, and fringes along each coast.  That is the ultimate goal, and there is nothing coherent or comprehensible beyond it.  A fundamentally stupid man, one who time and again has demonstrated complete lack of understanding of the world as it exists, Obama is as enrapt with illusion as his followers.  (Oh, I'll grant him a kind of feral cleverness, but any con artist has that.)  Obama exists in his own bubble, in no way more valid than that of any other American leftist.

Is Obama Too Smart for the Presidency, or Is It Too Tough for Him?  [Scroll down]  But is there any evidence that Obama is smart?  He's never released any of his transcripts, and we still have no idea on what basis he was admitted to Occidental, Columbia and Harvard.  Further, if he were as smart as his fawning admirers in academe and the media would have us believe, wouldn't his performance as president reflect that?  To take even the simplest thing, his ability (or lack of it) to speak extemporaneously is almost nil, except in the crudest colloquial way: [...]

Houston, We Have No Idea What We're Talking About.  Seriously:  is there anyone in the United States of America foolish enough to think that an 86% variation in snow pack in a single year is due to global warming, rather than natural variation?  Well, maybe.  Barack Obama at least pretended to believe it.

Somewhat related:
Exclusive Breaking Analysis: Obama Still Can't Throw a Baseball Correctly.  Obama's lack of basic motor skills was on display Monday evening at a Little League game in Washington, D.C. He looked like he was trying to shot put a hacky sack, or something.

Superstition is the religion of weak minds.
The Obama Paradox.  The ritual started in earnest last fall in the midst of the biggest humiliation of Barack Obama's presidency, the failure of the health care website.  Anytime he heard a sliver of good news, the president reacted the same way:  He knocked on the polished cherry wood table in the Roosevelt Room.  It's a small thing, almost a nervous tic, but Obama's habit of knocking on wood during Obamacare meetings had become notable, something that close advisers talked and even joked about among themselves.

Obama: 'I Make No Apologies' On Bowe Bergdahl Decision.  President Obama said today he would not apologize for the controversial trade of five Guantanamo detainees for the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl as criticism of the deal continued to grow among lawmakers in Washington, D.C.  "I make absolutely no apologies for making sure we get back a young man to their [sic] parents," Obama said in a news conference in Brussels.

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For an allegedly well-educated man, Obama's English is atrocious.

Is Obama Evil or Stupid?  In the latest edition of Afterburner, Bill Whittle examines the Bergdahl swap but first touches on Fast and Furious, Obamacare, Benghazi and the IRS scandal.  In all of these cases, Bill reminds us that Obama is ignorant and is just as mad as you are.  In every case one must ultimately ask, is Obama stupid or evil?

Obama's being pretty stupid for a smart guy.  It was stupid to push mandates and job-killing measures in the face of serious underemployment.  The one thing he's done that showed any brains was to time the most odious parts of his health care fiasco to detonate after he won re-election.  In fact, it's hard to think of anything he's done that hasn't been stupid — except, of course, run his campaigns.  And now, in what was once his patented realm of pure theatre, he's turned out to be stupid, too.

The World Continues to Confound Our Clueless President.  Many of President Obama's foreign policy failures are the product of his badly misguided ideology.  But some flow simply from his inability to understand how the world works.

However Bad You Think the VA Scandal Is, It's Much Worse.  It's time to ask:  Is our president functionally a moron?

Obama Wants to Throw $500 Million Into Syria's Civil War.  Why is the idiot king more interested in toppling Assad than in helping Iraq's government survive?  Besides the fact that he's the idiot king?

Is Obama Just a Hapless Putz?  Many people on the right think Obama is an Evil Leftist Genius.  Not me.  I think he is a hapless putz.  I think his ideas are all wrong, his application of his ideas is incompetent, and the chaos that he causes with his wrongness and incompetence will not lead in the direction he thinks it will.  I think when the history of the 21st century is written, Obama will not merit more than a single line.  Even the fact that he was the first black president may come to seem irrelevant in a couple of decades.  In which case, he will not merit any line at all.  The guy is just a sad little schmuck who played cynical politics well and got promoted way above his competence.

Nopoleon.  In the White House things are viewed through the peculiar prism distorted by the incumbent's view of himself.  He's so big in his mind that it blots out the sun and he never sees the hit coming.  When Bob Herbert in the New York Times claimed that "Mr. Obama is like a championship chess player, always several moves ahead of friend and foe alike," Gary Kasparov merely replied "allow me to disagree".

More Than Incompetent, Obama Simply Does Not Understand What It Means To Be President.  For his first term and re-election, ideological differences dominated the debate surrounding President Obama.  But while these partisan debates continue to swirl around the president, in the past year it has become clear that Obama is not only to the left of most Americans, he is completely out of his depth as President.  In short, his lack of plain, managerial competency, and that of his administration, has manifested itself with a vengeance.  His recent interview with The Economist brings into stark relief Obama's fundamental lack of understanding of the art of governing and how America's federal system operates.  In this interview, Obama expounds on his frustration that business keeps lobbying for special treatment.  Is he serious?  Can he really be that obtuse?  It is a mind-boggling comment.  Everyone lobbies for special favors in Washington — it's the town's main industry.

Watch Obama's Rousing Speech That Brought Military Vets To Their Feet.  No, Obama's speech before the American Legion at their convention in Charlotte NC, this morning, stunk on ice — as usual — and the veterans mostly sat on their hands — as usual. [...] Obama got off on the wrong foot almost immediately when he badly botched the word adjutant.  Watch him pause, grimace and sweat in distress as he sees the word coming, knowing that he has no idea how to pronounce it.  It's not as bad as "corpseman" — but close.  "I want to thank the entire leadership team for welcoming me here today, including your... National... uh... (gulp)... Adsnt — uhh — Dan Wheeler... Ay yi yi.  Over five years in office, and the Commander-in-Chief still doesn't know how to pronounce all his military titles.

A comparison of Obama to Czar Nicholas II of Russia.  Both are well educated and reasonably smart, but not remarkably intelligent.  Nicholas is an absolute monarch, so while his intellectual limitations are apparent, nobody dares mention them.  Obama supposedly is always the smartest man in the room, yet proof is wanting.  Obama's college and law school grades, while probably not bad, also won't demonstrate genius, and remain sealed.  But he is no dummy, has impressive rhetorical skills, and this combined with other positive political characteristics leads his supporters to exaggerate his intellect.

The Obama Bomb.  Obama has been variously called by his detractors a "manchild," a "dufus," a "clown," a "playboy" and suchlike disparagements, ridiculed or deplored as someone who is far out of his depth and manifestly unfit for the presidency.  These critics cite as evidence for their assessment of Obama's callowness his oft-reported gaffes betokening a poorly educated lightweight (e.g., the Austrian language, "corpse-man," the 57 states, temporally conflating the Umayyad dynasty in Cordoba with the Inquisition, a discrepancy of some 500 years, etc.); his puerile decision making; his constant reliance on a teleprompter, even when addressing a group of sixth-grade students; and his incessant vacationing and delight in hobnobbing with vacuous celebrities.  His bungling incompetence is thus explained by his lack of condign gravitas, his hankering for distraction and entertainment at the expense of the serious deliberation required by the job.

Obama Invites Indian Leader to Dinner While He Is Observing Religious Fast.  The Obama administration was grilled on Monday [9/29/2014] for inviting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a state dinner while he is fasting as part of a Hindu religious observance, a move that has been criticized by some as insensitive.  Obama will host Modi Monday evening at the White House "for a private dinner" that will also be attended by Vice President Joe Biden, the White House announced Monday morning.  The event is closed to the press.  However, the administration appears to have forgotten that Modi is in the middle of carrying out a religious fast in observance of the Hindu navratri, in which the faithful abstain from food, according to reports.

Desperately Seeking a Weaker United States.  While the U.S. cuts its defense spending, Russia and China have been increasing theirs.  Moreover, while nuclear weapons can be found in nations like North Korea, a self-declared enemy of the U.S. Iran is intent on creating its own nuclear capability, the U.S. has not only reduced its nuclear arsenal (Obama wants no arsenal) and has entered into negotiations that no observer believes will result in any cessation of Iran's intentions. [...] This has all happened while Obama has been President.  He has already announced that the U.S. will not put "boots on the ground" in Iraq and will leave Afghanistan next year.  Telling the enemy what you intend to do militarily is a profoundly stupid thing to do.

Another weird Obama pronunciation.  What on earth is an ohbee-guynee?  Apparently it is a weird Obamaspeak pronunciation of OB/GYN (pronounced oh-bee-gee-why-en).  For the president's benefit, let me specify that means a doctor who delivers babies and takes care of the lady parts.  When President Obama announced the departure of Eric Holder from his position as attorney general, he also mentioned his "good friend," the AG's wife, Dr. Sharon Malone, and he called her an "ohbee-guynee."  Don't believe me?  See for yourself.  [Video clip]  This joins "corpse-man" and the language "Austrian" among the malapropisms of the holder of two Ivy League degrees.

Obama hasn't come up with one original idea yet.  Just before Labor Day, controversy erupted over President Obama's garb at a presidential press conference — should he or should he not have worn a light tan summer suit when talking about ISIS? That was beside the point.  The issue isn't the weight or color of his suit.  The issue is that the suit is empty.  With almost six years of the Obama administration under our collective belts, the time has come to acknowledge a painful truth:  This is an astoundingly idea-free presidency.

Dishonest or discombobulated? With Obama, take your pick.  Either Mr. Obama repeatedly says things he knows are false, or he is completely unable to comprehend information to discern the truth.  There is no third option.

Now, a rattled Obama and Biden need help explaining what they really mean.  Remember, Obama was supposed to be the golden-tongued orator whose words would woo the masses and hold back the tides of time.  As long as he could rely on a teleprompter, that was true for a while. Now, his mis-steps with those of Pancho Biden resemble circus clowns running into each other.  Biden has said so many stupid things so often, you'd think he should have been replaced in 2012.  But he may be Obama's best insurance against impeachment.

America's "Elites" Are No Longer Elite And Our "Intellectuals" Aren't Intellectual.  [Scroll down]  Even worse are the legions of "elites" and "intellectuals" who haven't accomplished anything of note, truly proven their intellect or shown that they're particularly good at anything.  For example, what accomplishments led anyone to believe that Barack Obama was ready to be President or that the Democrat Party's assumed candidate in 2016, Hillary Clinton, is up to the job?  Neither of them are stunning intellects.  Neither have led particularly accomplished lives given the gravitas of the presidency.  Neither of them seem to be extraordinarily gifted at anything.  If either of them were unknown, it seems unlikely that they could successfully run their own small businesses or work their way up through the ranks of a corporation.  In other words, they're both Paris Hiltons of politics who are famous for being famous.

Study: Obama Speaks At Elementary School Level.  Ever get the feeling that you're being spoken to like you're a child when listening to a speech from President Obama?  You may be onto something.

Obama's Biggest Fail Yet.  [T]here's no evidence that we have from his professional body of work that Obama has nothing but average intelligence.  Quite the contrary actually. [...] If the economic history of the last twenty-five years has shown us anything, it's that confiscating wealth to try to build a utopian dream is not just foolhardly, but the first step in a path of destruction that will kill young and old alike.  The Soviet Union, the Eastern Block, Spain, Greece, North Korea, Cuba and China all argue against the very socialist economic policies that Obama covets.  And that's what he picked versus being the greatest racial uniter since Abraham Lincoln.  Even if it was explained to him, he wouldn't understand how badly he blew his opportunity.

The Sayings of Barack Obama.  [Scroll down]  Yet somehow this brilliant man thinks they speak "Austrian" in Austria; there are 57 states in America; Hawaii is in Asia; and he repeatedly makes legal mistakes — despite being, as we were endlessly informed the Harvard Law School Review president and a constitutional law professor (which he was not; he was a part-time lecturer, but facts do not matter when Obama is involved).

Understanding Obama's Ebola Psychosis.  If it's a day ending in a "y," Obama is telling lies.  This is the man who said there is "not even a smidgen of corruption" at the IRS, "if you like your health care plan, you can keep it," "transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency," and "we revealed to the American people exactly what we understood at the time" about the Benghazi saga.  Should we be soothed by the easy prose of the glib, cocky, know-it-all community organizer who celebrates "Cinco de Quatro" and who thinks "Austrian" is a language, or should we pay more attention to the actions of prudent medical professionals dressed up in heavy hazmat suits that look like astronaut gear?

Jonathan Gruber and Barack Obama's University Transcripts.  Democratic policy star, Ivy League elitist, and ObamaCare architect Jonathan Gruber thinks Americans are too stupid to understand the "Cadillac Tax" and much else besides.  Given that Obama decreed that ObamaCare was to be constructed by Gruber, who has said on several occasions (e.g., here) that the people who have been impacted are dumb, shouldn't Obama, and his Democratic supporters, be willing to demonstrate to the "dummies" just how smart Obama is?  It's not very gentlemanly to form your namesake policy together with a guy who's wont to call everybody else stupid, when, at the same time, you've refused to reveal academic data other presidents (even those with bad grades) have willingly disclosed.

President Obama Spotted Chewing Gum Again While Abroad.  It seems President Obama didn't learn his lesson after the outrage in Beijing earlier this week over his gum chewing at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.  As the G20 summit got underway in Brisbane today, the president was once again spotted smacking gum as he chatted with British Prime Minister David Cameron at the first plenary session.

Watch Pres. Obama Fumble Easy Question on Precedent.  President Obama completely fumbles when George Stephanopolous asks him how he'd respond if a future president takes the same action on taxes that Obama has taken on immigration.  Incredibly, Obama responds as if he'd never heard or thought of this argument before, stumbling blindly along immigration talking points without answering the actual question.

Barack Obama, Student of History?  Many people think that Obama has refused to release his college transcripts because his grades were poor (or at least not consistent with his supporters' claims of genius.)  I'm guessing it is less Obama's grades, and more his choice of courses that is problematic.  Evidence suggests that even good students leave college with less knowledge of history than on entrance.  Perhaps this afflicted Obama. [...] It is one thing to be weak in history, another [to] believe ignorance is expertise.

Obama Proposes a Law that Already Exists.  President Barack Obama shamed Congress in his State of the Union address on Tuesday night to pass legislation that already exists.  Apparently not briefed by his secretary of labor and attorney general, Obama announced:  ["]That's why this Congress still needs to pass a law that makes sure a woman is paid the same as a man for doing the same work.  Really.  It's 2015.  It's time.["]  But it was June 10, 1963 when Congress passed "The Equal Pay Act of 1963," which can be found at 29 U.S.C. §206(d).

Obama's happy talk is contradicted by reality.  Don't feel ashamed if President Obama's State of the Union address seemed bewildering.  Perhaps you felt like factually false assertions kept coming out of the president's mouth — not debatable or tendentious statements, but stuff that just plain isn't true, and that could have easily been fact-checked by his speech writers.  That's because such assertions did keep coming — again and again.  This might explain quite a bit.  Obama, it appears, begins his discussion of public affairs from a completely different set of premises than those who read the news and keep up on the world.

The Smartest Guy Ever to Be President Isn't Quite As Smart As He Thinks.  Barack Obama is really, really smart.  I know, because he told me so during his State of the Union address.  Our president is especially smart on foreign policy. [...] Take how smart the president has been in combating [sic] ISIS (aka ISIL and the Islamic State).  On Tuesday night Mr. Obama informed us that he was asking Congress to pass a resolution to authorize the use of force against the Islamic State.  This comes precisely a year after our really, really smart commander in chief referred to ISIS as a "jayvee team."  That prediction was so prescient that the president decided to deceive us about it.

Decline and Fall of Obama's America.  [I]mmediately upon giving an emotional speech about the horrors of the Islamists' slow beheading of an American journalist named Foley, a few days ago, immediately upon swearing revenge and retribution, our President went out to play his eighth round of golf in 11 days.  He is rapidly closing in on playing 200 rounds since he took office. While David Cameron, PM of the UK, returned from a vacation in Portugal to deal with the horror as best he could (the murderer was apparently an Afghan who had lived in Britain for a time), our President went onto the golf course on the exclusive island of Martha's Vineyard.  He then played 18 holes of golf to prove to the murderers that he could stay cool.  This man is not cool.  This man is unwell.

Between two mirrors, Obama touts health law sign-up.  President Barack Obama made a comic online video — complete with silly faces and several shots with a selfie stick — that reminds Americans that they only have through Sunday to sign up this year for Obamacare. [...] "In many cases, you can get health insurance for less than $100 a month," Obama said, following several instances in which he trips up on the pronunciation of "February."

While Obama Plays with Selfie Stick for BuzzFeed, ISIS Closes In on U.S. Marines in Iraq.  One can debate all that went wrong in Iraq in the last five years, but there has been one constant in this equation that entire time:  the Americans have had the same commander in chief since 2010.

Obama's Childish Selfie Indulgence Diminishes Presidency.  As our narcissist in chief poses and preens with a selfie stick in a BuzzFeed video, the world comes apart at the seams and chaos reigns.  Have we ever had a less serious person in the White House?

Obama's old passwords: 'Password,' '123457'.  President Obama's digital security leaves something to be desired.  In remarks at a cybersecurity summit at Stanford University on Friday [2/13/2015], Obama admitted he's used some passwords that are pretty easy for cyber criminals to access.

The Walker-Stupid, Obama-Genius Myth.  Since nothing Obama has done as president reflects anything like brilliance, the myth of his genius continues to rest on two pre-election assumptions, both unchallenged by the major media.  One is that Obama alone wrote his 1995 autobiography Dreams from My Father, "the best-written memoir ever produced by an American politician" according to Time's Joe Klein.  The second is that Obama deserved to be president of the Harvard Law Review.  For those interested in the first question I would recommend my book, Deconstructing Obama.  As the record will show, Obama was incapable of writing that book on his own. [...] As to the second question, no, Obama did not deserve to become president of the Harvard Law Review, let alone to be admitted to Harvard, Columbia University, or even Occidental College.  Friendly biographer David Remnick tells us that Obama was an "unspectacular" student in his two years at Columbia and at every stop before that going back to grade school.

Are There Two Obamas?  Charisma he's got.  On the other hand, when he's not scripted, he says some amazing things.  A few examples:
  •   When he said he'd campaigned in 57 states, leaving just one more to go.
  •   When he bolluxed up the logic of the argument when, in support of government-run health care, he said "UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right?  It's the Post Office that's always having problems."
  •   When he showed he didn't know how to pronounce "corps," saying "corpse" when referring to a Navy corpsman.
  •   The classic line, at a San Francisco fundraiser, about voters not inclined to support him:  "It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
  •   His remark in Vienna that he didn't know how to say something "in Austrian."
The mispronunciation was written down (but didn't save him).  The others, like the "random" killers horror, were ad-libbed.

Obama the Clown.  The past week has seen the latest manifestation of the disgraceful way Barack Obama has acted as President. [...] As video of this frivolous behavior, that includes the inability to dunk a cookie into a glass of milk, trying on shades, drawing a picture of Michelle, sticking his tongue out, tossing an air basketball-can be found here. [...] When enemies see a president who can't figure out how to dunk a cookie in a glass of milk, do they see someone who can handle Vladimir Putin or the mad mullahs of Iran?  Can allies trust such a man?

Barack Obama and the 'Supergirls'.  Barack Obama couldn't make it to Bibi Netanyahu's address to a joint session of Congress, but he did squeeze in an appearance at the fifth annual White House science fair, which he said is the "most fun event of the year."  Obama, who believes in the voodoo science of climate change, personally visited "57 states ... not including Hawaii and Alaska," and still hasn't conquered the Obamacare website, took the science fair opportunity to tout science, technology, and math.

When Iran tests its first nuclear weapon, Obama should be forced to return his Nobel Peace Prize.  Only fools express any trust in Obama these days or the Iranians who have made him look the fool when no one in their neighborhood or the world trusts a thing they say or do.  After more than six years of listening to President Obama's unremitting lies, when he says of the latest "accord" with Iran, "It's a good deal" and standing in the Rose Garden declares that the U.S. and Iran have reached "an historic understanding" the only history being made his own ignominy and idiocy.

Hobgoblins and little statesmen.  A few days ago, Obama displayed, once again, his cursory, puddle-deep off-teleprompter intellect.  In referring to the Israeli position on Iran, President Obama took another intellectual stab, but he missed.  The President said, "Consistency is the hobgoblin of narrow minds."  A blantantly blown misquote.  (Imagine if Dan Quayle or George W. Bush had made such a blunder, not only misquoting, but not footnoting.)

Watch: Obama's embarrassing mistake as he greets Saudi princes.  Yesterday [5/13/2015], two Saudi crown princes arrived to meet with President Obama at the Oval Office, after King Salman refused to meet Obama at the Gulf summit or at the White House.  White House officials should have been careful to make sure everything with the two top Saudi officials went smoothly — but instead, Obama flubbed on the deputy crown prince's name and the name of the king who forged America's relationship with Saudi Arabia, King Abdul Aziz ibn Saud.  The prince sat stony-faced as Obama makes the error.  [Video clip]

Obama talks b-ball (and more important stuff) on Twitter.  [President] Obama chose the occasion of his annual hurricane briefing to hold his first Twitter chat, and it was supposed to be about the need to combat climate change.  But it turns out Obama's attention span is limited, and like many Americans, he'd be just as happy to talk about basketball.  It was the subject of two of the nine questions he answered.

Fooling ourselves: Everything is going as (they) planned.  In 2008, most diehard conservatives weren't fooled by the oratorical prowess of Barack Hussein Obama.  We were flummoxed , however, by how normally intelligent pundits like Peggy Noonan at the Wall Street Journal failed to spot the con job kept hidden by sealed records and who joined the media fawning and adulation of the 'most brilliant candidate ever.'  Why, he even campaigned in 57 states and that boo-boo wasn't even a senior moment like Rick Perry's in 2012.  It was just Obama without his teleprompter so let's just move on.

Barack Obama Orders Energy Companies, Conservatives to Fall in Line.  Having just suggested that Obama may be deliberately antagonizing conservatives by sounding completely arrogant, let me now hasten to add that there is no doubt that the President is the incarnation of arrogance and self-worship.  How else could a man with his track record demand submission from energy companies and conservatives?  How could he not realize how stupid he sounds?

Rude or ignorant? The White House offends the pope.  Was Team Obama being rude or incompetent when it invited a collection of Catholic dissenters and other opponents of church teaching to the White House welcome for Pope Francis?  Perhaps the president's staff just bought the media myth that this pope has turned his back on two millennia of Catholic doctrine.  In fact — despite his raising of issues like climate change and economic inequality — the pope still affirms traditional teaching on issues like abortion and same-sex marriage.

Putin Bombs Syria, As Obama Saddles My Little Pony.  When told Russia's Vladimir Putin was challenging his leadership, President Obama's first response was to say that his "definition of leadership would be leading on climate change."  We're not making this up. [...] The nation should be quaking that it has a president who would say — and maybe even believe — something so shallow and trend-driven.  While the Islamic State continues to steal, kill and destroy, and Putin is seizing land and bombing his way to becoming the world's strong man, our president wants to saddle My Little Pony.

Enough of this Suicidal Religion Nonsense.  [W]hen your president says "people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ," by way of explaining away Islamic terrorism; and your Secretary of State says "There was a sort of particularized focus and perhaps even a legitimacy" in order to distinguish between the Charlie Hebdo slayings and the Paris theatre massacre, one can only conclude they are stupid.

Obama's Recipe for Disaster.  When you really boil it down, Obama's bizarre insistence on flooding us with refugees from an area of the world that is a hotbed for jihadists — and home to a religion that is completely incompatible with western values comes down to three possibilities:
  [#1]  Obama really is "dumb"
  [#2]  Obama is insane
  [#3]  Obama is deliberately destroying our nation
I'm going with all of the above, with the added caveat that number three needs to include the question, "and at whose behest?"

This is an original compilation, Copyright © 2023 by Andrew K. Dart

Obama's unmitigated laziness

Mr. Obama spends a lot of time on the golf course when he should be working, and travels aboard Air Force One with his family — at our expense — to numerous extravagant and lengthy vacations and world-wide junkets.

Obama is too lazy to administer his third term!
No, Virginia, Obama's Not Running the Show.  [Scroll down]  Obama is not a serious man.  Never was.  To this point, Obama's best biographer, Pulitzer Prize-winning civil rights historian David Garrow, titles his summary chapter on the Obama presidency, "The President did not attend, as he was golfing."  Serious progressives in the Democratic Party have long thought of Obama as a dilettante. [...] As president, Obama's bourgeois lifestyle and cool demeanor made him all the more effective as a front man for a movement that had grown increasingly strident, even punitive.  As ex-president, he is simply redundant.  Although still willing to sell what he lacked the stomach to lead, the Left no longer needs the service of a front man like Obama.  They've got an even more pliable one in the White House.

Obama Falls Asleep During Hillary Clinton's Speech at Elijah Cummings Funeral.  It sure look like former President Barack Obama falls asleep during Hillary Clinton's speech at the funeral service for Elijah Cummings.  It could be argued he was in prayer, though. [...] Hillary Clinton has a history of putting people to sleep.  Remember back in 2016 when her husband fell asleep as she was accepting the Democrat nomination.

Fact Check:  Barack Obama Installed Golf Simulator in White House.  Barack Obama was the first U.S. president to install a golf simulator in the White House, according to a bombshell report in the far-left Washington Post. [...] [W]hat we have here is yet another example of just how determined the Washington Post and the rest of the media are to live in their own heads; because they don't even realize what a dazzling self-own this report is.  Seriously, think about it:  the Washington Post "bombshell" on President Trump updating Obama's golf simulator, and doing so with his own money, just proves once again how useless and corrupt the establishment media are.  But with its stupid bombshell about Trump's golf simulator, all the far-left Post is doing is admitting it did not report on Obama's golf simulator, is admitting that were it not for the Post's obsessive hatred of Trump, the public never would have learned about Obama's golf simulator.

Trump's Schedule and the Value of the President's Time.  Axios, an online "news" source, has obtained copies of President Trump's Oval Office schedule.  The site is "shocked! shocked, I tell you!" that he is not booked up from 7:00 am to 7:00 pm.  No kidding, guys:  Most president's schedules are not that filled.  I don't recall the Fourth Estate getting outraged by then-president Obama not getting into the Oval Office until after 9:00 A.M.

From One Psychodrama to Another.  Reggie Love was Obama's "bag-man" who one day was irreplaceable, the next abruptly gone.  Love later turned up to claim quite astounding things, including that a bored Obama played spades on the night of the Osama bin Laden raid.  Love further insisted that Obama had whined about the bother of having to go downstairs to monitor the mission in real time:  "Most people were like down in the Situation Room and [President Obama] was like, 'I'm not going to be down there, I can't watch this entire thing,' So he, myself, Pete Souza the White House photographer, Marvin, we must have played 15 hands, 15 games of spades."

Apparently Mr. Obama plans to be on vacation for the rest of his life.
Obama: Back home again in Indonesia.  Barack Obama is off on another extended vacation abroad this week, this time in Indonesia where he spent much of his formative childhood years.  Since his White House lease expired in January, the ex-president has vacationed at a friend's house in Palm Springs, on Richard Branson's private Caribbean island, on David Geffen's private yacht in French Polynesia and in a Tuscan hamlet purchased in its entirety by John Phillips.  Obama appointed Phillips ambassador to Italy.  He turned the old town into a private luxury estate.  Now, after a lengthy private jet flight from Hawaii, Obama's back home again in Indonesia for nine days with a large family entourage, including wife Michelle and half-sister, Maya Soetero-Ng, her family and, of course, Secret Service agents.

Ahem: CEOs who golf too much are worse at their jobs.  Golf linked to underperformance.  A few weeks after the election, a trio of researchers shared a study in the Harvard Business Review that had been published online by an academic journal last year.  It examined the golfing habits of more than 350 CEOs of S&P 1500 companies between 2008 and 2012 who maintained a handicap with the United States Golf Association, meaning their scores and the number of rounds they play are recorded.  It found that CEOs who play golf more often were associated with lower average return on assets and lower market capitalization. [...] Woodrow Wilson was said to have played more than 1,000 rounds during his eight years in office, Dwight Eisenhower played 800, and yes, Barack Obama easily fits into the National Golf Foundation's "avid golfer" category with his more than 300 rounds as president.

Obama writing his memoir during extended stay in French Polynesia.  Obama arrived at a luxury resort frequented by Hollywood stars in mid-March, though it was unknown at the time what he was doing there.  The Washington Post reported Sunday that Obama is writing his White House memoir during his extended stay at the eco-friendly resort in French Polynesia's atoll of Tetiaroa.

The Editor says...
Or maybe he's just vacationing continuously (by himself?) while somebody else writes the book.

Barack Obama is probably lying on a beach in a deserted paradise right now.  He's been to sunny California for some golf, a private island in the Caribbean, where he kite-surfed with billionaire Richard Branson; he went to New York to take in a Broadway play, and then again, to dine with U2's Bono.  He lunched in Omaha last week with Warren Buffett and then hopped a flight to California, and then on to Hawaii (more golf). And today, Obama may be sitting pretty, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, on a tiny French Polynesian island called Tetiaroa.  There are reports, unconfirmed by CNN, that Obama is going to spend a month on the island, which is north of Tahiti and features only one luxury hotel, aptly named "The Brando" because the Island was once owned by Marlon Brando.

Obama jets off to paradise:  Ex-President travels to Marlon Brando's private Polynesian island to unwind.  Former President Barack Obama has arrived in French Polynesia where he will spend a month at a luxury resort frequented by Hollywood stars.  He landed on the tourist island of Tahiti this week without his family before going to Marlon Brando's privately owned retreat Tetiaroa atoll, which the Oscar-winning actor bought in the 1960s.  Obama then checked into the eco-friendly Brando resort, whose villas boast their own plunge pools and cost between 2,000 euros ($2,150) and 12,300 euros per night.  It is unclear if Obama's family will join him for the tropical holiday.

Obama checks into a luxury eco-friendly resort near Tahiti.  Former President Barack Obama is spending a month at a luxury resort near the tourist island of Tahiti.  He checked into the Brando, a luxury resort on French Polynesia's atoll of Tetiaroa according to local TV channel Tahiti Nui TV, AFP reported.  Not much is known about the nature of Obama's visit.  He arrived without his family and has no political meetings planned.  Rates at the villas on the atoll, purchased by Hollywood star Marlon Brando in the 1960s, run anywhere between 2,000 euros (about $2,150) to 12,300 euros ($13,241).

Ordinary people are sick of hearing men like Branson and Obama lecturing us from sunloungers on a private island.  They're the sort of holiday snaps that could make you choke on your Coco Pops.  I mean the ghastly photos of Richard Branson and Barack Obama having their kite-surfing holiday together on Beardie's secret hideaway island of Necker in the Caribbean.  In one of the photos it really does look like the ex-President and the Virgin boss are — how can we put this delicately? — in a relationship.  Like a honeymoon couple frolicking with each other in the balmy Caribbean wavelets, or play-fighting like puppies on board Branson's high-powered speedboat.  At least when Tony Blair holidayed at Cliff Richard's place in Barbados they had the dignity not to be photographed horsing around in the swimming pool.

Barack Obama learning to kite surf and wrestling with pal Richard Branson during exotic getaway.  He and wife Michelle spent several days on the entrepreneur's island as they attempted to wind down from the stresses of office.

The Editor says...
Must be difficult to "wind down" after that two-week all-expenses-paid Hawaiian vacation in December.  Mr. Obama has been on vacation since President Trump was inaugurated — a month ago.

Six weeks of continual vacation:
The Obamas visit neighboring island with billionaire host Richard Branson during second week of vacation on his private Necker island.  The Obamas are eight days into their tropical holiday in the British Virgin Islands, and today they made it off out with their billionaire host Richard Branson.  The Obamas, who traveled from a long weekend in Palm Springs to the islands on Branson's private jet last Monday, were spotted on a neighboring British Virgin Island Tuesday enjoying lunch in photos obtained by DailyMail.com.  The pair are believed to be staying at one of Branson's private islands.  He owns both Necker and the recently opened eco-resort Moskito Island.

Barack and Michelle Obama are all smiles as they pose with immigration officials in British Virgin Islands.  Barack and Michelle Obama have arrived in the British Virgin Islands after jetting in to the Caribbean on Richard Branson's plane.  The former first couple posed with staff at Terrence B Lettsome International Airport, the islands' main airport, on Monday night [1/23/2017] after a flight from California.  A photograph of the pair with their arms stretched around immigration officials and the local police commissioner appeared on social media after their quiet arrival.

Obama pictured in heavy contemplation as he's driven in tiny new motorcade on vacation.  Former President Barack Obama looked to be in deep thought as he headed home from a workout, escorted by his smallest motorcade in years.  The nation's 44th president has chosen to spend the first days of his newfound retirement playing golf and hitting the gym at Thunderbird Country Club in Rancho Mirage, California.  Obama was captured looking tired and in heavy contemplation as he was driven back to his home in a dark vehicle, flanked by his tiny new security detail on Sunday.

Pictured: Obama on his first day out of office.  Ex-president heads to country club gym for workout at start of luxury two-week vacation.  Former President Barack Obama headed straight to the golf course to celebrate his first day as a civilian.  Obama's motorcade headed to the ultra-exclusive Porcupine Creek Golf Club in Rancho Mirage, California about 11.30am on Saturday [1/21/2017] where the former president played 18 holes.

The Editor says...
Technically, the President of the United States is a civilian while in office.

Disregard all those farewells: Obama isn't really leaving.  Normally, retiring presidents speak of relief about shedding the burdens of commander-in-chief and flee back home on a final complementary flight aboard a plane no longer called Air Force One without the new president.  The Obamas will, indeed, take that final post-inaugural Air Force flight — but only for a vacation.

The Editor says...
How strange that the Obama family needs another vacation — immediately after returning from two weeks in Hawaii — to rest up for his very comfortable retirement.

Obama golfed 333 times, most since Ike.  President Obama earned his title as "golfer in chief" over eight years, becoming the first duffer who spent the most time on the greens since former President Dwight D. Eisenhower.  CBS White House reporter Mark Knoller, who keeps an accurate database on presidential movements and actions, said Obama has golfed 333 times during his eight years, the last few outings in Hawaii during the first family's Christmas vacation last month.

Obama enjoys the fourth day of his Hawaiian vacation as Europe deals with the aftermaths of multiple terror attacks.  President Barack Obama and the rest of the first family have been well and truly getting into vacation mode after spending the afternoon at the beach on the Hawaiian island of Oahu's.  Obama began his day with a 90-minute workout before the motorcade headed to the beach, arriving just after noon after a 30-minute drive from Obama's beachfront rental in the nearby town of Kailua.

Obama Wraps up a Game of Golf in Hawaii.  President Obama and his family capped another day of their Hawaii vacation with dinner Monday night at one of Honolulu's most exclusive restaurants.

Obama Heads to Golf Course After Receiving Reports on Berlin Attack and Russian Ambassador Death.  Well, this is what one would call bad political optics.  With the dual breaking news events surrounding potential terrorism and a foreign diplomat being shot to death, White House pool reports showed that President Barack Obama headed to a country club in Hawaii near his rental house, where he is vacationing.

On Skipping Intelligence Briefings.  Mr. Obama is criticizing Donald Trump for missing some daily intelligence briefings (a criticism which we find valid, by the way), and saying that a president is "flying blind" without those briefings.  But why [...] didn't anyone say that to Obama for the last 8 years?!  Some reports say that Barry skipped as many as two thirds of his intelligence briefings, including the one the morning after the Benghazi debacle.

Obama was never criticized for this, but...
Ex-CIA chief says Trump risks blame for an attack if he skips briefings.  Former CIA director Leon Panetta said on Wednesday [12/14/2016] that President-elect Donald Trump risked being blamed after any potential attack on the United States if he refused to receive more regular intelligence briefings.  U.S. officials told Reuters that Trump is receiving an average of one presidential intelligence briefing a week — far fewer than most of his recent predecessors — but that his deputy Mike Pence gets briefings around six days a week.

Suddenly Obama cares about Intel Briefings.  Am I to understand that the President who avoided intel briefings at an alarming rate for eight years suddenly cares about intel briefings? [...] In case you've forgotten, let me remind you.  The Government Accountability Institute reported back in September 2014 that Barack Obama attended only 42.09% of his daily briefings since the day he was inaugurated.  The GAI also pointed out that in 2014 alone, Obama missed 62.5% of his Presidential Daily Briefings.

Obama recalls his own troubled youth in address at black college.  The event also focused on sports opportunities, and the president joked during a commercial break that not all black men are good at basketball.  "Every brother thinks he can play ball, and it's not the case," he said to laughter.  "Sometimes you get them out there.  It's disappointing ... My game is broke.  [I] am worried about the Achilles."  Discussing his plans after he leaves office, Mr. Obama said, "I am going to sleep for two weeks and then I am going to take Michelle on a very nice vacation."

The Editor says...
Fron the article immediately above, we see what Barack H. Obama's priorities are:  Play basketball, sleep, go on vacation.

SEALS Forced to Abort Hostage Rescue Mission While Obama Vacationed.  A group of Navy SEALS were forced to return from a hostage rescue mission in Afghanistan after President Barack Obama failed to approve their operation while he was on vacation on Martha's Vineyard.  According to sources speaking to Ami Newswire, the special operations force traveled swiftly to recover two hostages, but were ordered to stand down because Obama did not have time to approve the mission.  Obama approved the mission a day later, but when the special forces team returned, the hostages had been moved just four hours earlier, according to the report.

In Laos, Obama Repeatedly Calls Americans 'Lazy'.  During a townhall meeting in Laos, President Barack Obama called Americans "lazy" multiple times.  For one, Obama said Americans' reluctance to embrace his favored environmental policies is a sign of laziness.  "Usually when you see the environment destroyed, it's not because it's necessary for development," Obama said.  "It's usually because we're being lazy and we're not being as creative as we could be about how to do it in a smarter, more sustainable way."

Obama: Americans Too 'Lazy' to Know Anything About the Rest of the World.  Wednesday at a a Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI) town hall in Luang Prabang, Laos, President Barack Obama said Americans can be "lazy" because we are so big we think "We don't have to know anything about other people."

Obama's flood of hypocrisy opens the door for Trump.  On Friday [8/19/2016], while residents of Baton Rouge were recovering from a historic flood that damaged some 40,000 homes, Obama was on Martha's Vineyard watching fireworks, following 10 rounds of golf in 16 days.  Donald Trump, by contrast, was on the ground in the flood zone, unloading relief materials, touring the devastation and focusing much-needed attention on a disaster that has been largely ignored by the media.  Why wasn't Obama there?

After several days of embarrassment in the news media...
President Obama Reverses Position — Will Put Down Putter and Visit Louisiana.  Yesterday [8/18/2016] the official position from the White House and Democrat leadership was that Louisiana didn't need political distractions as they coped with natural disaster recovery efforts from a historic flood. [...] Today the official position from the White House and Democrats is that "leadership is critical".

Flashback: Obama ripped Bush's 'unconscionable ineptitude' during Hurricane Katrina.  President Obama, under fire for golfing on posh Martha's Vineyard during a week of anguished cries for help from flooded Louisiana, ripped former President Bush 11 years ago when the Republican was seen as slow to react to Hurricane Katrina's crash into New Orleans.  Obama, who had just returned from New Orleans, preached on the Senate floor about Bush's poor reaction to similar cries for help during Katrina.

Trump Visits Louisiana Flood Victims as Hillary Rests and Obama Vacations.  Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his running mate Mike Pence are going to Baton Rouge, Louisiana on Friday to meet victims of the flooding that has killed 13 and forced 30,000 Louisianans to leave their homes. [...] President Obama has given no indication he will interrupt his two week vacation in exclusive Martha's Vineyard to visit the flood victims.  The president played another round of golf Thursday [8/18/2016] with television star Larry David and Bain Capital co-managing partner Jonathan Lavine.

Jeh Johnson Tells Flooded La., 'The President Can't Be Everywhere'; 'He Has a Very Busy Schedule'.  Speaking at a news conference in flood-ravaged Louisiana on Thursday, Homeland Security Director Jeh Johnson said "the federal government is here, we have been here, and we'll be here as long as it takes to help this community recover."  Responding to criticism that President Obama has not interrupted his summer vacation on Martha's Vineyard, Johnson said several times, "The president can't be everywhere."  Johnson also said the (golfing, vacationing) president "has a very busy schedule this fall and in the coming days," hinting that Obama has no plans to go Louisiana.

Jeh Johnson:  Obama not going to Louisiana to see flooding.  The Obama administration is sending hundreds of federal agents to Louisiana to respond to last weekend's disaster, but don't expect the president to show up, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said Thursday [8/18/2016].  "The president can't be everywhere," said Johnson, after repeatedly being prodded by reporters at a press conference about a presidential visit.  He said the "president is closely monitoring" the situation "and is very much on top of it."  Johnson said President Obama "has a very busy schedule in the fall" and in the coming days and likely won't make the trip.

America Burns.  Obama Plays Through.  Again.  As you know, the Won has vacationed on Martha's Vineyard every summer he's been in office — with the exception of 2012 when he was busy appearing to care about your pain.  Still, it's uncanny how similar this summer resembles news stories from two years ago:  another city in fly-over country is engulfed in race-based riots following a police-involved shooting of another thug.

Obama under fire for golfing with Larry David and refusing to cut short his vacation to visit flood-hit Louisiana.  Donald Trump will tour the flood damage in ravaged Louisiana as President Barack Obama stays on his New England vacation amid historic flooding in the state.  Running mate Mike Pence will accompany the GOP presidential nominee as he tours some of the devastated streets and views flooded homes after intense flooding. [...] Meanwhile, despite calls for him to visit and meet with responders and victims, Obama is unlikely to break from his New England vacation to survey flood damage.

Obama golfs with Larry David at Martha's Vineyard.  President Obama is hitting the links with comedian Larry David on Thursday [8/18/2016].  Obama, on vacation at Martha's Vineyard, Mass., took the "Seinfeld" co-creator out for a game of golf, along with frequent presidential golf partners and businessmen Robert Wolf and Jonathan Lavine, according to pool reports.

Obama chills while nation simmers.  Nero fiddled while Rome burned.  Obama is playing round after round of golf and eating on the arm at la-de-da restaurants on Martha's Vineyard as Milwaukee burns, Louisiana floods and illegal aliens hunt down and rape American women and children on mainland Massachusetts.  In Haverhill, two illegals are arraigned for the Friday night rape of a woman at Riverside Park.  One was deported in 2013, returned to the U.S. through Laredo last year and was issued a notice to appear before an immigration court in May 2015, an appearance the alleged rapist did not make.

Trump-Pence Head To Flood Devastated Baton Rouge — Meanwhile Obama Golfs, Hillary Sleeps.  Candidate Trump's comments followed a campaign announcement that Donald Trump and Governor Mike Pence will travel to Baton Rouge Louisiana tomorrow morning to see first-hand the worst national disaster since Hurricane Sandy in 2012. [...] Meanwhile President Obama is continuing his golf vacation, and Secretary Hillary Clinton has taken the rest of the week off.

Obama's refusal to interrupt vacation amid Louisiana flooding stirs anger.  President Obama is stirring resentment over his refusal to interrupt his Martha's Vineyard vacation to survey the Louisiana flood — the worst U.S. natural disaster since 2012 — while drawing comparisons to President George W. Bush's hotly criticized response to Hurricane Katrina in the same state.  Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson defended Mr. Obama at a press conference Thursday [8/18/2016], insisting that the president is "closely monitoring" the situation but that he will not cut short his two-week breather in the tony Massachusetts resort.  "The president can't be everywhere," Mr. Johnson told reporters in Denham Springs, Louisiana.

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The president can't be everywhere.  How true.  At any given moment, he is where he chooses to be.  On the golf course, on the beach in Hawaii, or in a millionaire's house for a fundraiser.  He chose to be somewhere on the night of 9/11/2012 when the Benghazi attack took place, but whatever that location may have been, it is still a well-guarded secret to this day.  And in this case, he chooses to stay at Martha's Vineyard, enjoying a life of luxury, rather than examining the flood damage in Louisiana first-hand.  He doesn't even defend himself to the news reporters — somebody else takes care of that.

Obama Won't Interrupt Vacation on Martha's Vineyard to Comment on Louisiana Floods, Milwaukee Riots.  Wisconsin had to call in the National Guard after rioters tried to burn down the city of Milwaukee.  Officers were injured and business were set on fire after the fatal shooting of an armed civilian by a police officer sparked violent unrest across the city.  In Louisiana, deadly flooding in near Baton Rouge has displaced tens of thousands.  That's some pretty serious stuff. [...] So, what has he been up to?  Well, he recently golfed on an "organic" course at a country club that charges a $350,000 initiation fee, and he spoke at a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton.

Obama Golfs Five Times in Six Days Of Vacation.  As the dramatic campaign to replace him continues, President Barack Obama appears to be enjoying his golfing vacation in Martha's Vineyard.  The president went golfing again on Friday afternoon [8/12/2016] — the fifth time in six days.  His golfing partners include prominent NBA stars:  Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors, Chris Paul of the Los Angeles Clippers, and retired players Alonzo Mourning and Ray Allen.

Obama Golfs 300th Round as President at Martha's Vineyard.  President Barack Obama kicked off his vacation at Martha's Vineyard this afternoon with another round of golf.  According to CBS reporter Mark Knoller, that marks Obama's 300th golf game during his presidency.

Obama gives interview about golf and his 13-handicap as he begins Martha's Vineyard vacation.  The president, an avid weekend golfer, is set to hit the links several times during his vacation in Martha's Vineyard.

Obama launches a weekend of birthday celebrating.  President Obama started off his birthday celebration a little early, embarking on a round of golf Saturday morning [7/30/2016] with three longtime friends.  Obama is playing with Mike Ramos, Bobby Titcomb and Greg Orme.  The three men are high school friends of Obama and have come in town for birthday celebrations before.

Over 48 days of golf as Obama logs 291st round.  President Obama has had a chance to yell "FORE" at least 5,238 times as president after playing his 291st round of golf Saturday [5/28/2016].  His latest outing, to the course at Fort Belvoir Golf Course in Northern Virginia, means he has played over 48 full, 24-hour days of golf, and probably more since he can average over four hours per round.

Obama, by his own admission, has always been lazy.
Obama tells student journalists he was a 'slacker kid'.  President Obama made a surprise visit to a White House question and answer session with student journalists Thursday [4/28/2016], and told his young audience that he was a "slacker" in high school.  "I can tell you guys were high-achieving, Type A folks," Obama said to the university students Thursday.  "Unlike the kind of slacker kid that I was."  Obama made the remark while outlining his plans for college affordability.

Obama and Cameron hit the golf course for a chummy round.  US President Barack Obama has triumphed in his golf match against Prime Minister David Cameron.  The pair managed to squeeze in a round at The Grove in Hertfordshire between the President's busy schedule, after he visited The Globe Theatre and spoke at a London Q&A event this morning [4/23/2016]. [...] Mr Obama's motorcade travelled 20 miles to The Grove for a round on a cloudy afternoon, continuing his tradition of hitting the fairways with world leaders.

Obama and His Presidential Daily Briefs.  President Obama repeatedly and always states that when major events occur he didn't know about them until he saw the news report on cable news.  What Obama doesn't understand is that it's difficult to keep up with events from a golf cart. [...] Obama has no idea of how dangerous Iran and North Korea are to America because he will not attend Presidential Daily Briefs, but instead prefers to "read" them.

Obama tees up with Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers and retired astronaut Mark Kelly.  The president spent some time on the green [4/2/2016] with quarterback Aaron Rodgers of the Green Bay Packers and retired astronaut Mark Kelly, according to the White House.

Will an Atomic ISIS Finally Get Obama Off the Dance Floor?  Obama similarly debased himself and humiliated his country via a tango in Buenos Aires, a baseball game with Cuban despot Raul Castro in Havana (including Obama doing the wave), and an Easter-eve round of golf.  All this transpired barely hours after radical Islamic terrorists turned Brussels into a slaughterhouse.  Just before Obama partied, ISIS killers wounded 316 and murdered 32 innocents, including four Americans, in a NATO-allied capital.  What, if anything, will make Obama abandon his Ringling Bros.-quality clown routine, display a modicum of maturity, and — at long last — get serious about obliterating jihad in general and ISIS in particular?

Obama hits the links for Easter weekend.  President Obama is spending part of his holiday weekend hitting the links.  The president on Saturday went golfing at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland to celebrate Easter weekend.  He was joined by Sam Kass, a former aide and White House chef; Greg Orme, a childhood friend and frequent golfing buddy; and aides Joe Paulsen and Marvin Nicholson, who also often join the president on his golf outings.

281st round: Obama plays at least 46 full days golf.  President Obama, fresh from his whirlwind spring break trip to Cuba and Argentina, hit the links for some R&R Saturday, playing his 281st round since becoming president.  He was at Andrews for over five hours.  That is slightly more than three quarters of a year of days playing the presidential sport for Obama.  The president typically plays for at least four hours, sometimes longer, putting his time at over 1,100 hours golfing, or at least 46 full 24-hour days.

Obama Rests Up From His Vacation.  Two days after returning from some kind of hiking expedition in Argentina and one day after spending a day doing nothing — at least publicly — at the White House, President Obama today [3/26/2016] is playing golf.  He is at the Joint Base Andrews course playing with some of the usual junior White House aides.

Obama under fire for 'going to baseball games with the Castros' while Brussels burns.  Republicans are already criticizing President Obama for staying put in Cuba instead of coming home or flying to Belgium in the wake of the terrorist attacks this morning in Brussels.  All three GOP presidential candidates condemned the president's moves this morning [3/22/2016].  'President Obama is spending his time going to baseball games with the Castros,' said Sen. Ted Cruz, who is running for the Republican nomination for president, according to reporting from ABC News' Rick Klein.

Video: Obama spends 51 seconds on Brussels before going back to Cuba speech.  President Obama spent exactly 51 seconds discussing Tuesday's terror attacks in Brussels before pivoting back to his prepared remarks in Cuba.  Obama asked the Havana audience to "please indulge me" before committing that the U.S. "will do whatever is necessary" to support the people of Belgium.

The Editor says...
Yes, Mr. Obama "will do whatever is necessary" as long as it doesn't interfere with his Cuban junket, his ESPN interview, and his attendance at a baseball game.

Obama hits golf course in California.  While Washington was facing a deep freeze Friday [2/12/2016], President Obama was eager to hit the links on the West Coast.  Fresh off a Thursday fundraising swing through San Jose and Los Angeles, Obama flew to Palm Springs, Calif., for a weekend golf getaway.  Obama's motorcade arrived at Porcupine Creek golf course, owned by Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, in nearby Rancho Mirage just over 20 minutes after Air Force One landed on Friday [2/12/2016].

Top 10 Lies in Obama's State of the Union.  [#8]  "As someone who begins every day with an intelligence briefing, I know this is a dangerous time."  Obama does not attend most of his daily intelligence briefings, preferring instead to read intelligence reports — so he claims — on his iPad, a stark contrast to the attentive approach of his predecessor.  Late last year, even as Obama claimed that there was little risk from attack, radical Islamic terrorists carried out brutal attacks in Paris and in San Bernardino.

Obama golfs with ESPN's Kornheiser and Wilbon.  President Obama is spending Saturday afternoon [1/9/2016] teeing off with the hosts of ESPN's "Pardon the Interruption."  Sports media personalities Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon, who are regular partners with the president, will also be joined by staffer Joe Paulsen on an overcast day in Washington.

Obama Ends Press Conference So He Can Go Watch Star Wars.  Obama gave his final press conference of the year Friday but cut the meeting short so he could attend a special screening of the new Star Wars movie.

NY Times Stealth-Edits Article to Remove Embarrassing Obama Admission.  If you read The New York Times' story on President Barack Obama's private meeting with news columnists Friday morning [12/18/2015], you may have caught one quote that made the President look particularly bad: [...] The President of the United States failed to understand that Americans were anxious after two major terrorist attacks in Western cities because he doesn't watch TV?  It's an admission that opponents are sure to use to make the president seem out-of-touch at best, and unconcerned about a serious threat at worst.

Mr. President, Stick It.  You are a failure, Mr. President, and the "benign" explanation is that you have spent your time playing golf instead of attending to business.  [T]he malignant possibility is far worse.

The President's "Safe Space".  The president does occasionally give a speech in support of one of his agenda items, but they tend to be in cities and at times that coincide with Democratic fundraisers.  In other words, it's lip service; literally the least he could do.  The last time the president pulled the hard sell on the American people was Obamacare.  He traveled; he gave speeches and regular interviews.  He had the White House health care summit.  He didn't convince the American people — they still don't want it — but he did get Congress to pass it.  After that, he quit.  Once the Democrats lost the House of Representatives, Obama lost any pretense about working with Republicans or caring about what the American people want or think.

No matter what happens, it's somebody else's fault, and somebody else's problem.
The buck stops there: WH says defense secretary ordered raid on ISIS in Iraq in which one U.S. soldier was killed.  Seventy Iraqi prisoners were freed in the joint U.S./Iraqi/Kurdish operation at an ISIS compound in northern Iraq, which reportedly came in the nick of time before the prisoners were executed.  Sounds like a glorious success, and The One's not known for letting others take credit for "his" successes.  So why is this operation being laid in Ash Carter's lap?

Obama Achieves Two Milestones: 250 Rounds Of Golf And 443 Fundraisers.  Mark Knoller tweets!

Obama has played more than 1,100 hours of golf as president — here's what that looks like.  On the last day of President Barack Obama's sixth summer holiday at Martha's Vineyard, he played the ninth and final round of his 17-day vacation — about one every other day.

Obama plays his 248th round of golf as the stock market tanks.  President Obama golf carted closer to his 250th round of golf as president Friday, a day when an even bigger number was making news, the 530-point stock drop.  At the tail end of a 16-day vacation, Obama golf for the 248th time as president, more than most, but a long way from catching other presidents famous for hitting the links like Dwight Eisenhower.

President Obama and Bill Clinton play golf together at Martha's Vineyard.  Obama has spent much of the past week on the golf course as he vacations with his family on the Massachusetts island.

President Obama assigned himself 52 hours of reading on summer vacation.  President Obama brought six books with him on his summer vacation in Martha's Vineyard.  And if he started reading at noon on Thursday and only stopped reading for 8 hours of sleep and three one-hour meals a day, he would finish them up by 10 a.m. on Monday.

The Editor says...
How many of you enjoy three one-hour meals a day?  I think the last time I had a one-hour meal was at a birthday party about 10 years ago.

Obama's Martha's Vineyard Sojourn Four Times Longer Than Average American Vacation.  The Associated Press reported that the Obama family moved up the date of departure, extending their summer vacation to 17 days, more than four times the length of the average American vacation.  In fact, Obama's summer break is one day longer than the total amount of vacation time the average American worker is allotted for an entire year.

Obama planning post-presidential snoozefest.  President Obama is revealing his first priority when he leaves the White House:  sleep.  The commander in chief said Monday that he intends to log some major zzz's when his term ends.  "The first thing I'm probably going to do is catch up on my sleep," Obama said to laughs during a question-and-answer session, according to a White House press pool report.  "I'll probably do that for a couple of months."

Michelle: Barack 'Works All the Time,' 'He Is Never Off'.  First Lady Michelle Obama told college-bound students President Obama "works all the time" and never takes off, adding that young people have to embrace the reality that success is not easy. [...] "If it's too easy than you are probably not working hard enough.  I am where I am.  Barack is where he is because let me tell you this president works hard.  You know, he works hard.  He works all the time.  He is always reading.  He is always writing.  He is never off.  Success is not easy so you've got to embrace that reality and then not think that if you stumble that somehow it's over.  Everybody up here knows that failure is a necessary part of growth and success," she added.

The Editor says...
Really?  If Barack H. Obama "works all the time[,] he is always reading[, and] he is always writing," tell us what he has read, other than the ESPN schedule, and show us what he has written, if anything, in which the grammar wasn't cleaned up afterward by a White House speech writer.  As for the assertion that Barack H. Obama works all the time, I wonder if that includes the days he spends on the golf course, or flying all over the world in Air Force One.

Obama's Next Move is to Gang up on Israel.  [Scroll down]  Mr. Obama still can't tell us why Muslims are slaughtering innocent people all over the world. Apparently, fourteen years after 9/11 the American people are still not grown-up enough to be told the truth about worldwide jihad.  So — after the Chattanooga massacre, Barack Hussein Obama went on vacation.

The day after returning from a recreational trip to New York City...
Obama golfs with 3 House Dems who praised Iran deal.  President Obama usually limits his frequent golf outings for pure recreation, choosing to reserve the fairway time for personal friends rather than political schmoozing.  But on Sunday [7/19/2015], Obama broke with his those now familiar ways and invited three Democratic congressmen to brave the 95-degree-plus temps and join him on the course at Andrews Air Force Base, just outside the Washington Beltway.  Democratic Reps. Joe Courtney of Connecticut, Ed Perlmutter of Colorado and John Yarmuth of Kentucky hit the links with Obama on Sunday.

'Personal Time' Obama Plans Private Weekend In New York City.  President Obama has planned a weekend getaway in New York City beginning with a secret Democratic National Committee fundraiser on Friday night.  "That is not particularly unusual," White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest admitted to reporters this afternoon [7/17/2015]. [...] Afterwards, Obama will spend the weekend in New York with his daughters for a little "personal time."

Obama disappears, abandons press corps.  President Obama disappeared abruptly without the press pool after spending Sunday [7/5/2015] golfing at Andrews Air Force Base.  He took former Hawaii school mate Mike Ramos, pal Marty Nesbitt, the co-CEO of the Vistria group, ESPN's Mike Wilbon and Tony Kornheiser with him to the links for approximately six hours of golfing, before abruptly taking off without the waiting press pool.

Obama: Unpunished in Press for Skipping Away from Tragedy for a Podcast, Fundraisers, and Golf.  In the wake of the Charleston church shooting, Republican candidates canceled events in South Carolina and altered their schedules.  President Obama did no such thing, jetting off to four California fundraisers, golfing in Palm Springs, and doing a leftist podcast with former Air America host Marc Maron in a garage. [...] The [Washington] Post isn't going to point out where Maron lands politically, because he's very liberal, and so are they.  His Air America show was called Morning Sedition, which is a play on the NPR morning news show Morning Edition.  But on Monday [6/22/2015], Post reporter Steven Mufson could only ooze Maron hosted an "extremely popular" podcast series.

Obama's Failure to Understand the Symbols of his Office.  I wonder what would happen if nine people were murdered in a church and a Republican president jetted out to the West Coast for four days of fundraising and golf.  Surely, the sensitivity police would have been brought out in force and locked down the nation's airwaves, commenting on the callousness of the president and the Neanderthal nature of Republicans in general.  But Obama returned Sunday night from four fundraisers and two rounds of golf without hearing a peep of protest, his devotion to government having pre-certified him as a caring, sensitive type and rendered him immune to suggestions otherwise.  But the parties, the constant golf, the extravagant and frequent vacationing do take a toll.

With family in Europe, Obama spending Father's Day in Rancho Mirage.  This is Obama's fifth trip to the Coachella Valley in the last two years.  [Rancho Mirage Mayor Dana] Hobart said if Obama played a couple of rounds of golf during his stay in the Coachella Valley, he wouldn't be surprised if one of them was at Porcupine Creek, an ultra-private course on an estate owned by former Oracle Chief Executive Officer Larry Ellison.

Obama spends Father's Day on the golf course.  President Barack Obama is spending Father's Day without his family, instead hitting the links in Palm Springs, California, with longtime friends.  First lady Michelle Obama and his daughters, Malia and Sasha, have been abroad in London and Italy, leaving the President home alone for a week.

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CNN makes it sound like we're supposed to feel sorry for Mr. Obama, because he's all alone on a taxpayer-funded golfing excursion to California while his family is on a taxpayer-funded trip to England.

President Obama departs from Palm Springs.  Obama's most recent desert getaway ended Sunday [6/21/2015].  The president flew out of Palm Springs International Airport at 3:12 p.m. aboard Air Force One bound for Washington.  Golf in Rancho Mirage dominated Obama's two-day stay.  Unlike past visits, there were no known sessions with world leaders and no word of presidential actions taken while here.

Democrat arm-twisting on trade deal delayed after Obama weekend of golf, private Prince concert.  Prince gave a private performance at the White House for the Obamas and about 500 guests Saturday night [6/13/2015] to celebrate African-American Music Appreciation Month.  Among the guests were former Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.; Education Secretary Arne Duncan; White House National Security Adviser Susan E. Rice; Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson and his date, singer Ciara; and entertainers Jon Bon Jovi, James Taylor, Tyler Perry, Connie Britton and Angela Bassett. [...] The White House didn't reveal anything about the event, which was not on Mr. Obama's public schedule.  The concert took place after Mr. Obama spent more than five hours Saturday playing golf with friends.

As Ramadi Falls to ISIS, POTUS Goes Golfing, Gets New Twitter Account.  As ISIS fighters were storming Ramadi, seizing U.S. military equipment, including missile launchers and tanks — enough to "take 3 more Mosuls and about 10 Ramadis," according to one ISIS supporter — the president of the United States was enjoying some "me-time" on the Andrews Air Force Base golf course.

Obama makes rare use of autopen to sign highway funding bill.  President Obama signed a two-week extension of highway funding Friday [11/20/2015] using a so-called autopen, controversial technology that reproduces the president's signature.  The White House said Obama, who is in Malaysia, authorized his signature to be placed on the measure "given the need for this extension and given the fact that the president is on the other side of the Pacific Ocean."

White House autopen also used for presidential proclamations.  In a largely-ignored press release last month, the White House announced that President Obama had signed a proclamation designating National Park Week.  But while the document bears his signature, it turns out he that didn't sign it.  The White House autopen did.

Staying: Press refuses to leave Obama, golfing for 223rd time.  For a second day, the "pool" of reporters in Florida to cover President Obama's golfing weekend refused to be dismissed by the White House, stationing in a maintenance shed near the super exclusive course the president is golfing at for his 223rd round of golf since taking office.

Late Again.  Everything in the Obama White House starts late, including Obama.  The White House announced today [3/31/2015] that it is open to completing the deal with Iran at least a day late.  Because that's how we roll around here.  Tardiness actually has the unfortunate effect of revealing underlying unseriousness, inattentiveness, a lack of discipline, and a penchant for screwing things up.

President to Play Golf While [the] Fate of [the] World [is] Decided.  Obama is headed to the Floridian golf club in Palm City for two days of golf, according to local news outlets.  Not that he didn't just have a golf extravaganza in California last month.  This is beyond appearances, symbolism, optics, and so forth.  This is a genuine statement about the care, attention and seriousness being given the Iran nuclear issue, perhaps the gravest problem confronting the United States and, indeed, the world.

Obama 'Always Has A Game On' On Air Force One; Gets TV Shows In Advance.  The newly retired senior advisor Dan Pfeiffer opened up about life at the White House in a recent Grantland podcast interview, revealing some of President Obama's media habits.  When quizzed by the hosts, Pfeiffer said that Obama would frequently talk about and watch sports and TV shows in his downtime.  "He looks for escapes, right, because his entire life is like massively critical world events, and so if we're just hanging out he'll want to talk about television, movies, a lot of sports."

The Editor says...
He probably "looks for escapes" because he chooses not to do any work, and knows he can't be fired.

Tiptoeing around terror.  It should be painfully clear by now that no one of authority is in charge at the White House, least of all President Obama.  His government is running itself, without any serious, detailed direction from the West Wing in the day-to-day issues and troubles America faces at home and abroad.

Confirmed: Obama watched NFL playoffs instead of going to Paris.  You won't find it in the American media, but the U.K. Daily Mail has obtained confirmation from an administration spokesman that President Obama spent much of yesterday watching the NFL Playoffs.

Obama mourns ESPN death, not general's.  President Obama immediately issued a statement upon the death of a sportscaster at ESPN over the weekend.  But when terrorists killed Army Major General Harold J. Greene in Kabul Afghanistan this summer, the commander-in-chief's silence was so loud that even the Washington Post noticed.

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The most obvious explanation is the most likely:  Obama spends all day watching ESPN, but he probably had never heard of General Greene.

Obama Is the Nation's Private Golfer in Chief.  Six years into his presidency, there seems to be almost nothing the nation does not know about Mr. Obama, ranging from his views on the use of drones to target terrorists to how his daughters have less interest in hanging out with him as they become teenagers.  But little is known about the state of his game and what he is like on the golf course, where he has spent roughly 1,000 hours playing 214 rounds since he was elected in 2008, according to Mark Knoller, a CBS correspondent who has kept track of the president's schedule.

N.Y. Times analysis of Obama's golf game sparks unexpected media controversy.  [A] Sunday [1/4/2015] New York Times story on the subject stirred up surprisingly passionate feelings among President Obama's critics and defenders alike, not necessarily for the content of the story but apparently for the fact that it was written at all. [...] It centered on Obama's tendency to keep details about his golf outings private, save a few public comments about his scores.  The president played several rounds during his holiday stay in Hawaii.  "For much of his presidency, Mr. Obama routinely shot in the 90s and low 100s — respectable scores for an occasional golfer but not particularly good for someone who played as often as he did, golf professionals said," the Times said.

Obama plays round of golf with Malaysia's prime minster.  President Obama golfed with the prime minister of Malaysia on Wednesday [12/24/2014] as he continued his annual winter vacation in Hawaii.  Prime Minister Najib Razak joined the president on the golf course.  The foursome was completed by White House aides Joe Paulsen and Mike Brush.

In Hawaii, Obama golfs with Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak.  President Obama has generally refrained from mixing business and pleasure on the golf course.  On vacation here in Hawaii, he has mostly hit the links with the same circle of longtime friends and White House aides he usually pals around with.  Until Wednesday [12/24/2014], when a newbie joined the First Foursome — Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak.

The 5 Biggest Lies From Obama's Friday Press Conference.  The truth, as Democrats and Republicans alike admit, is that Obama never works with Congress directly, never compromises, and despises spending any time on the business of government.  So the notion that Obama "wants to work with the new Congress" is as laughable as it is disingenuous.

An Inside Look at the First Family's Winter Vacation.  On Friday, Dec. 19, he departed for a 16-day holiday in his native state, Hawaii.  It's the family's sixth Oahu vacation since the president took office.  Of course, there's no such thing as a work-free vacation for a sitting president, but Obama did tell reporters he hoped the trip would be a "quiet time-out" to enjoy the family.

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The writers at ABC News are entitled to their opinions, but here's my opposing view:  In years past, there was "no such thing as a work-free vacation for a sitting president," but that was before Obama was elected.  Mr. Obama has demonstrated the greatest aversion to work since Maynard G. Krebs.

Obama: 'I Spend Most of My Time Watching ESPN in the Morning'.  While on ESPN radio with Colin Cowherd, President Obama admitted that he gets a little overwhelmed by politics in the morning and looks to a different kind of news channel.  "Listen, I spend most of my time watching ESPN in the morning," Obama said.

The Editor says...
If you worked for (or owned stock in) a large company with no connection to professional sports, and you learned that the company's CEO spent most of his time each morning watching ESPN, would you not conclude that the CEO was an incompetent fool?  If you knew that the company's CEO was a black guy who had hidden his college transcripts and had never run a business in his life, would you not surmise that he was hired only because he was black?  If you then learned that nobody on the board of directors had the courage to fire the CEO, would you not immediately realize that the company was hopelessly mismanaged and dysfuntional?

Obama tees off alongside Derek Jeter on exclusive Las Vegas golf course.  He had just delivered a historic immigration speech that sparked outrage among Republicans.  So today [11/22/2014], President Barack Obama decided to take a break at an exclusive Las Vegas golf course.  And teeing off alongside the politician was retired New York Yankees captain, Derek Jeter.

Obama golfs with Jeter in Vegas.  President Obama has traded GOP rancor and late-fall temperatures in Washington for a golf outing with Derek Jeter at the nicest golf resort in Las Vegas.  Obama, the retired New York Yankees shortstop and two Las Vegas businessmen were playing golf at Shadow Creek, which describes itself as a "masterpiece" course "sculpted from the Nevada desert by renowned architect Tom Fazio."

The Editor says...
Golf courses are large areas of perfectly-manicured grass.  In order to sculpt a golf course out of the Nevada desert and keep the grass in top condition, it would be necessary to pump millions of gallons of water every month. [1] [2] [3] [4] Golf is therefore not only a rich man's pastime but an environmentally unfriendly one — yet the Democrats seem to have no problem with Mr. Obama's golf obsession.

Obama golfs without Boehner, sends GOP home with six-pack of WH home-brew.  After this week's latest Democratic shellacking at the polls, President Obama joked that he might consider "letting John Boehner beat me again at golf." [... But] Obama chose to squeeze in a round sans Boehner on a chilly Saturday [11/8/2014] at Fort Belvoir before leaving on a lengthy eight-day tour of Asia and Australia.

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Yes, the best way to prepare for a week of luxurious taxpayer-funded globetrotting is a full day of taxpayer-funded golf.  It sure beats working!

The most important battle: Michael Jordan vs. Obama on their golf games.  The epic undercard to the midterms, and let's be serious, this was probably eating him more than the historic electoral rejection of his agenda, right? Michael Jordan talking junk about his golf game?  The nerve.

Obama Flashback: 'I Don't Really Care to Be President without the Senate'.  "I don't really care to be president without the Senate," Obama reportedly conceded in June.  Political analysts, and even some Democratic insiders, have long questioned whether President Barack Obama's frequent golf outings and extended vacations are further evidence that he has checked out on the presidency and is eager to hit the exits.

Scales Finally Falling From America's Obama-Obscured Eyes.  Obama is not just a guy who plays a lot of golf because he has earned his recreation time; he appears to have difficulty working his job duties in between rounds.  He's a guy who is largely disengaged, but when he is engaged, he makes an even bigger mess of things.  Many of his shortcomings are no longer just a matter of partisan opinion.  They are objectively obvious.  On foreign policy, he flounders around indecisively like the Scarecrow in "The Wizard of Oz."

Obama hits the links with aides.  President Obama capped off another week filled with Ebola concerns by hitting the links during a sunny afternoon in Washington, just 10 days before the midterm elections.  The pool report said Obama left the White House for Virginia's Fort Belvoir golf course shortly after noon on Saturday [10/25/2014], where he spent several hours with aides, according to reporters.

One Bad Apple: Obama and his Influence.  The press daily treats us to photo ops of the president grinning, laughing, leaning back in his Oval Office chair with his feet on the historic presidential desk.  We see him hopping around in glee on golf courses, yucking it up at cocktail parties stocked with the latest Hollywood celebs.  We watch him casually "saluting" with coffee-filled Styrofoam.  This is the Obama that pops up in my mind and this is his conduct while horrors abound — horrors he could have prevented and may have set in motion.  What message does this send?  Coolness?  I-don't-careness?  It tells the American people that it's okay to live it up at someone else's expense as long as you occasionally act angry and say a few stern words.  It says that reality is unimportant and the less pleasant the reality the less it matters.

Obama hits the links with ESPN host.  The president and [Tony] Kornheiser are golfing at Fort Belvoir in Virginia, according to a White House pool report.  The duo, who have golfed together at least four times in the past five months, are joined by staffers Joe Paulsen and Marvin Nicholson.

This is What You Get When You Reduce Everything to 'Activism'.  Joseph Schumpeter said it all when he wrote in Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy that the amazing thing is that politicians do any governing at all given the demands their real job, which is winning elections.  With Obama, we are spared the amazement.  He spends all his time doing politics, raising money and dividing people, and sensibly resting up on the golf course in between his exhausting fund-raising gigs.  [Forget] governing.  It's not surprising that this average product of an Ivy League education thinks and acts this way.  The whole culture of the modern university confirms the president in his worldview.

Obama Golfs For 4 Hours, 40 Minutes On Saturday, Then Holds Nighttime Ebola Meeting — Which New Ebola Czar Skips.  President Barack Obama's new Ebola "czar" Ron Klain has skipped another White House meeting on the Ebola crisis, a readout of who attended a Saturday [10/18/2014] meeting with Obama shows.  Obama held the Ebola meeting after spending four hours and 40 minutes on the golf course at Fort Belvoir, according to the White House press pool report from the New York Daily News' Dan Friedman.

President Who Derided Photo-Ops Now Doing ISIS and Ebola Photo-Ops.  CNN reports that the White House is eager to show the president "hard at work" so they are running Obama through a series of photo-ops. [...] All presidents do photo-ops.  It's part of the job, though President Obama gives off the impression that he believes that photo-ops are the job.

Why the White House Won't Admit Obama Is a Drag for Democrats.  Another week of presidential travel and fundraising.  Another round of bad polls.  Another day closer to the realization by Democrats that there really is nothing President Obama can do to alter a campaign dynamic that all year has been gloomy for his party.  You won't hear that acknowledgement, of course, from anybody at the White House.

Ebola and fear spread, so Obama fundraises.  [Scroll down]  It was inevitable 21 days from a midterm election that Ebola would also infect the nation's politics.  The usual Washington suspects call for flight bans, as if no one can change planes in Europe.  They call for an Ebola czar, as if another padded federal department would fix things right up.  It's all just futile flopping for an anxious population detecting the spread of an even more virulent virus:  Fear.  Here's the real problem:  There is no national leadership.  We have a president.  But he is no leader.

Obama now phoning it in — literally.  On Sunday, President Obama suited up for work.  He put on his pants (most likely one leg at a time, but perhaps not), then slipped on his black windbreaker, the one with the presidential seal on one side, his name on the other (in case he forgets who he is).  He put on some comfy sports socks, laced up his shoes real tight — it would be a long, hard day.  Then he grabbed his leather bag of tools, which also bears the presidential seal and the number "44" (in case he forgets which number president he is). [...] And yes, you guessed it, the president was not off to "work," but to play golf — and set a milestone in the doing.

Dallas confirms second Ebola victim, so where's Obama? Hitting the links for his 200th golf game as president.  While officials in Dallas scrambled to calm public hysteria over news of the first Ebola transmission on U.S. soil, Barack Obama hit the links for his 200th golf game as president.  The president embarked on his leisurely outing to Virginia after taking a a few moments to speak with Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell for an update on the worsening situation in Dallas.

Obama Plays Golf for the 200th Time.  President Obama today played golf for the 200th time of his presidency, a milestone that for many is emblematic of a president who has frequently seemed detached from his job, his colleagues in Washington, and the American people.  The president's 200th trip to an oasis of fairways comes at a particularly turbulent time.

Guess How the Obama White House Learned an Armed Convict Had Been Inches From the President?  What [...] does Barack Obama do all day?  He obviously wasn't on the ball as ISIS was rising to power.  He says he learns about everything from the news, not his staff. [...] We know that the president watches a lot of sports.  Someone needs to take his remote away for a while.

Obama Is Now Missing 58% Of His Daily Intel Briefings.  So Obama is getting worse instead of better.  But, after all, how can he pretend to be disengaged and out of the loop if he attends these briefings and asks questions?

Howard Dean: Worries Over Obama Skipping His Intel Briefings Is More or Less Birtherism.  Obama tossed the intelligence community and his own Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, under the bus on 60 Minutes when he blamed them for "underestimating" ISIS.  That comment has sparked a sort of cold war between the president and his intelligence agencies, as the nation grapples with the Islamic State's rise and threat, and what to do about it.  But if you are concerned about this, former Democratic Party chairman Howard Dean thinks that you're a kook.

Dereliction of duty: Obama skipped nearly 60 percent of intelligence briefings.  This isn't some right-wing conspiracy, this is a report that can be cross-verified.  What would shareholders or a Board of Directors do to a CEO who had attended 42.1 percent of the company economic outlook briefings and while the company's stock was plummeting?  Yep, I believe the shareholders would demand the firing of the CEO.  So what are we waiting for here America?  Obama only asks for his PDB to be left on his desk and there are hardly ever any follow up inquiries.  "It's pretty well-known that the president hasn't taken in-person intelligence briefings with any regularity since the early days of 2009," an Obama national security staffer told the Daily Mail on Monday.  "He gets them in writing."  Hmm, I wonder how many of those 2,079 days Obama played golf?

Obama Has Spent More Time Playing Golf Than In Intel Briefings.  President Barack Obama has spent more time golfing than he has spent listening to daily intelligence briefings.  The Daily Caller has calculated that he's spent almost 700 hours in 875 "Presidential Daily Briefings" since 2009.  But he's also spent roughly 800 hours on almost 200 golf trips since his first inauguration.  Obama's golf trips typically last four and half hours, including one hour on the road.  The longest trip took about six hours, according to regular reports from the media pool that follows the president on trips outside the White House.  In contrast, President George W. Bush largely gave up golfing during the Iraq campaign, from 2003 to 2008.

Ain't Got Time To PDB.  I think the fault for the ongoing catastrophes in Syria and Iraq lie with Obama's worldview and his related action (and inaction).  Nevertheless, in the context of Obama's buck-passing, the Government Accountability Institute's tracking of Obama's attendance at his Presidential Daily Briefs takes on a heightened interest.

State Dept. On Obama Intel Briefings: 'He Receives Those Whenever He Can'.  The Obama administration found itself scrambling on Tuesday [9/30/2014] to defend President Barack Obama for his lackluster 42% attendance record on daily intelligence briefings, a finding from a new report issued by the non-partisan Government Accountability Institute (GAI).  When asked about the GAI revelation on Fox News, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki appeared flustered and unprepared.

How Often Has Obama Missed His Daily Presidential Briefing?  In light of Obama throwing the intelligence community under the bus during his 60 Minutes interview in regards to the rise of ISIS/ISIL, one has to wonder just how often he receives a live briefing, rather than (supposedly) reading the briefing material[.]

Report: Obama Has Missed Over Half His Second-Term Daily Intel Briefings.  A new Government Accountability Institute (GAI) report reveals that President Barack Obama has attended only 42.1% of his daily intelligence briefings (known officially as the Presidential Daily Brief, or PDB) in the 2,079 days of his presidency through September 29, 2014.  The GAI report also included a breakdown of Obama's PDB attendance record between terms; he attended 42.4% of his PDBs in his first term and 41.3% in his second.

Obama Ignored Islamic State Intelligence For A Year.  A former Pentagon official told Fox News that Obama received specific intelligence in daily briefings about the Islamic State's rise.  The information was said to be "granular" in detail, laying out IS' intentions and capabilities for at least a year before it seized big chunks of Iraqi territory and started beheading Americans.  Obama's indifference to the briefings was an issue during the 2012 campaign, when former George W. Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen observed that Obama personally attended only 44% of them.  Obama's perceived lack of interest in a terror war, which he claimed was won prior to the Benghazi attack, mirrors his reported lack of interest in the rise of the Islamic State.  At the time, National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor told Thiessen that Obama's attendance at the briefings was "not particularly interesting or useful."

Could Obama's Privileged and Pot-filled Adolescence Explain his Presidential Lassitude?  [Scroll down]  Researchers have also found that the primary psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, tetrahydrocannabinol or THC, can seriously interfere with this neural development. [...] One long-term study of a thousand New Zealanders who used marijuana during adolescence found that these effects persisted into adulthood decades later.  The most interesting of these harms is to "executive functioning."  This is a related "set of processes that all have to do with managing oneself and one's resources in order to achieve a goal.  It is an umbrella term for the neurologically-based skills involving mental control and self-regulation."  It is the ability to focus and organize one's efforts to pursue one or multiple difficult long-term goals.

Punctuality and laziness are incompatible.
Obama absent for start of NATO meeting.  President Obama was nowhere to be found during the beginning of a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine commission in Wales on Thursday [9/4/2014].  Obama was "noticeably absent" from the start of the meeting, according to a White House pool report, although U.S. Ambassador to NATO Douglas Lute was in attendance.

NATO Summit Venue Perfect for Golfer-in-Chief.  Obama and other NATO leaders will be staying at the Celtic Manor resort in Newport, Wales, which is home to three separate championship-caliber golf courses, including the newly remodeled "Twenty Ten" course, which hosted the 2010 Ryder Cup.  The Wales venue is perfect for Obama, who "has supposedly said that he finds" NATO meetings to be "dull," according to the Washington Post.  Wales has the seventh-most golf courses per capita in the world and the Welsh courses resemble the historic links courses in neighboring Scotland, the birthplace of the sport.

Prepared for the Worst.  As the leader of the free world shuffles from one golf course to the next, it's obvious that no major foreign policy change is coming in the near term.  Obama seems to be running out the clock halfway through the third quarter, hoping whatever evils he has unleashed don't hit America until he's safely retired.

The Summer of Obama's Disconnect.  The White House public relations staff must think Americans are pretty dumb.  How else do you explain the way chief spokeswoman Jennifer Palmieri defended Obama for playing golf immediately after an address about the slaughter of journalist James Foley?  "His concern for the Foleys and Jim," Palmieri said, "was evident to all who saw and heard his statement."  Yes, just as evident as what else the world saw that day:  the president's golf cart, his golf clothes, and his wide, sporty smile.

After Grueling Golf Vacation, Obama Finally Getting Back to Fundraising.  No time for rest when you can party with the fatcat elites of the Democratic Party.

Obama swings into action... on the golf course.  President Obama was back on the golf course today as he enjoyed yet another 18 holes amid deepening concerns about the spreading terrorist rampage of extremist group ISIS. [...] His hours on the golf course during a two-week break on the resort island of Martha's Vineyard have his detractors teeing up as they highlight the slew of foreign policy crises currently facing the U.S.

Jimmy Fallon Mocks Obama's Golf Obsession: 'Get Back to Work'.  President Barack Obama's unwillingness to give up golf while the world churns and burns finally caught the attention of the late night crowd.  Jimmy Fallon mocked Obama's golf obsession on Thursday's [8/21/2014] The Tonight Show, mixing humor with the serious notion that the president should put down the golf clubs and get back to work.

White House defends Obama playing golf.  The White House suggested Friday that President Barack Obama was trying to work out his tensions when he played 18 holes of golf on Wednesday — complete with grins and fist-bumps — immediately after delivering a brief but moving speech condemning the gruesome execution of American photojournalist James Foley.

When Barry Gets Blue.  The British press has mocked President Obama's golf game immediately following his statement on the beheading of James Foley.  The Daily Mail story includes a photo of Obama giving a fist bump for the ages. [...] But it's not just the British press.  The New York Daily News captured the reaction of sentient Americans with its "Bam's golf war" cover.

Obama lands in the rough among critics over second day of golf.  The Putterer-in-Chief played golf again Thursday on ritzy Martha's Vineyard, a day after he raised eyebrows by seguing seamlessly from a statement on the terrorist butchery of ISIS to the links.  "It's bad because perception is very important in foreign affairs," Laura Ingraham, the conservative talk radio host, said in an email.  "Same reason it was important not to pose for a selfie at Mandela's funeral.  It all conveys a lack of seriousness and maturity."

Also posted under Obama's bad ideas, bad decisions and poor judgment.

Obama Stands Alone: Even the media are baffled by his deepening isolation.  President Obama has few remaining friends — either in his own party or in the media. [...] What is striking now is a growing sense, fairly or unfairly, that Obama is not capable of rising to the occasion, that he just doesn't like politics, that he's disengaged, that despite his soaring rhetoric in 2008 he has a passion deficit.  All the criticism about him playing golf and being at Martha's Vineyard is kind of a code for his supposedly being unplugged from the job.

A Vacation is All Obama Ever Wanted.  After receiving word that James Foley had been beheaded, and as Mr. and Mrs. Foley eulogized their murdered child, calling him an "extraordinary son," Barack Obama, probably eager to get back to the golf course, loaded younger daughter Sasha onto Air Force One and flew back to the tony enclave in Massachusetts to finish out the week.  Based on the flimsy reasons for the president to fly home with one daughter, only to fly back with the other, as the Foleys prepare to receive the body of a son with a severed head, it looks as though President Obama was just doing a little parental drop-off and pick-up.

Obama blasts terrorists, returns to golf.  President Barack Obama got down to business Wednesday afternoon, flooring it to the golf course after giving a speedy statement on the beheading of an American journalist and a threat from ISIS to spill more blood.  Obama sported a grin the size of Mount Rushmore as he sat behind the wheel of a golf cart in Martha's Vineyard, where he's currently vacationing.  Donning casual khakis and a white Nike polo, the president enjoyed laughs, and even a fist pound, with ex-NBAer Alonzo Mourning and businessmen Glenn Hutchins and Cyrus Walker.

Contrast: David Cameron Suspends Vacation Over Foley Killing; Obama Heads Back To Vineyard.  This is unacceptable behavior from the president, and he should look to Cameron for guidance on how to handle a situation like this.  It isn't even confirmed that the man in question is British (for all we know, he could have been taught English by a Londoner or is a heck of an impressionist), yet Cameron recognized the gravity of the situation and did the appropriate thing by suspending his vacation.  It's no wonder ISIS thinks they can walk all over us.

Why is Obama disconnected, directionless?  Obama's approval ratings are already in the cellar, and much of the nation has soured on his abilities as a transformational leader.  So why not at least take a shot to turn that around?  Ferguson surely looks like the opportunity to do that.  Instead, Obama seemed content to send Attorney General Eric Holder to the scene while he went back on vacation.  Hard to imagine the previous Democratic president taking this kind of approach.

As World Chaos Continues, Obama Quietly Retreats To Martha's Vineyard.  President Obama returned to his vacation home at Martha's Vineyard after briefly interrupting his vacation for two days of meetings in Washington, D.C.  Obama met with his economic team Tuesday [8/19/2014] before leaving the White House at 4:22 pm to return to his vacation home.

After ISIS Beheading Video, UK's Cameron Cancels Vacation, Obama Returns to His Vacation.  Over there:  "U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron cut short his summer vacation to return to London and chair urgent meetings on the threat posed by ISIS in Iraq and Syria, calling the video 'shocking and depraved.'"  Over here:  ["]President Obama went back to his vacation on Martha's Vineyard Tuesday evening following less than 48 hours in Washington, leaving people puzzled over why he came back in the first place.["]

Report: Harry Reid 'Seethed' At Disengaged President Obama.  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and other top Democrats are increasingly frustrated with how disengaged President Obama is, according an article in the New York Times.

The Presidency is Breaking Obama Even As Obama Has Broken the Nation.  [Scroll down]  So the president — with crises breaking out across the globe, the economy still staggering, and unrest and despair in America rising — seems to have grown bored with the job.  This is on one level an astonishing thing; on the other, it has the ring of truth. [...] What could possibility explain this attitude?  It may be that Mr. Obama was drawn to the job not for the right reasons but because he viewed the presidency as a new mountain to climb, a prize to win, as a way to feed his unusually large ego (even for a politician).  It may also be that Mr. Obama, with his presidency crumbling, is like a petulant child who wants to pick up his marbles and leave.  He was fine serving as president when he was adored and well liked; now that things are going south he appears to have emotionally "checked out," to use Scarborough's phrase.

'When people are dying, you must come back from vacation': French foreign minister seems to slam Obama.  French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has a message about Iraq for Barack Obama:  Get back to the White House and do something. [...] Full-time workers in France are guaranteed a whopping five weeks of paid vacation every year, making his plea all the more urgent.  Obama is on a family and golfing holiday in a ritzy neighborhood of Martha's Vineyard but says he will come back to Washington this weekend before returning on Tuesday [8/12/2014] to fun, sun, and more golf.

Mark Levin Slams Obama's Apathy.  Conservative radio host Mark Levin lamented what he described as President Obama's profound indifference toward the wars raging overseas, declaring that "the world is on fire, and this man doesn't seem to [care]!" [...] "Our enemies — the terrorists — have never had it so good under this truly pathetic commander-in-chief," the radio host began, explaining that Obama should be in Washington — rather than on vacation — working to get congressional approval for broader military action and pushing American allies worldwide to assist our efforts.  Levin slammed the president for his excuses and finger-pointing at the prior administration for the crisis.

Obama's one achievement — outgolfing Tiger Woods.  The president of the U.S., juggling the American economy and the entire world's problems — Iraq is in full meltdown, the Middle East is a powder keg, Russia is moving on Ukraine — has played golf nearly as much as a guy whose day job is playing golf.

Party On, First Dude.  The launch party for this latest stop on the PGA tour — that's Presidential Golf Adventures, and don't any of you media vultures try to steal it — had the flavor of genius about it.  Rather than seeming distant and removed from world affairs, Barack Obama met the press corps head on, reciting a prepared statement on the newest plan to bomb Iraq.  But in the background stood Marine One, the commander in chief's personal helicopter, leaving no doubt as to the longer-range arrangements for the day. And only moments later he disappeared into the aforementioned aircraft, zipping off to the gated enclaves of Martha's Vineyard.

Even a Russian invasion of Ukraine won't disturb Obama's vacation.  Two crises — one in Iraq and one in Ukraine — aren't enough to disturb President Obama's vacation.  In Iraq, a twofold crisis has the barbarian forces of the Islamic State trying to butcher their way into Kurdistan and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki clinging to power.  The airstrikes and military aid to the Kurds ordered by Obama may help slow the advance of Islamic State forces but won't significantly damage the group.  As the suffering of the 30,000 to 50,000 Yazidis trapped by the Islamic State on Mount Sinjar worsens, the Pentagon is reportedly planning their evacuation, a massive effort that would require a substantial ground force to accomplish.

Cheney: Obama Probably Not Reading His Intelligence Reports.  In an interview set to air on Tuesday's "Hugh Hewitt Show," Cheney agreed with Charles Krauthammer's claim that the president is "strategically clueless," adding that President Obama doesn't think that US power is beneficial, but rather "part of the problem."  And maintaining that President Obama does not "have the same fundamental set of beliefs that most of our presidents have held over the years."

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And when he says, "the same fundamental set of beliefs," I surmise that Mr. Cheney is referring to this and this.

Obama Hits the Golf Course... Again.  President Obama continues to enjoy his vacation by spending another afternoon at the golf course.  The Presidential motorcade arrived at 12:56 pm on Tuesday [8/12/2014] at the Vineyard Golf Club in Edgartown, MA, according to the White House Press pool.  His golfing partners today are longtime friend Eric Whitaker, Cy Walker and former Ambassador Ron Kirk.

ABC: Semi-retired president "entirely unconcerned" by optics of playing golf while Iraq melts down.  On the one hand, by his own admission, what's happening in northern Iraq is genocidal in intent.  On the other hand, Farm Neck sure is a sweet course.  Dilemmas, dilemmas.  He did authorize military action before hitting the links, but then so did Bush and that didn't spare him from lefty mockery for years afterward — and Bush quit the game in 2003 because he felt it sent "the wrong signal" when bombs were falling.

Obama vacations as the world burns.  Obama stood on the South Lawn on Saturday [8/9/2014] updating Americans on the new bombing campaign in Iraq — and then he boarded Marine One for a two-week trip to Martha's Vineyard.  There, half an hour after arriving at his vacation home, he was already on his way to a golf course.  He played again Sunday, then had a beach outing Monday followed by a political fundraiser.  Even presidents need down time, and Obama can handle his commander-in-chief duties wherever he is.  But his decision to proceed with his getaway just 36 hours after announcing the military action in Iraq risks fueling the impression that he is detached as the world burns.

Obama Vacation Beat: Sunday, August 10.  The presidential vacation got off to a late start Sunday.  At approximately 1:10 pm, under blue skies and with barely a breeze wafting across the up-Island fields, President Obama's motorcade left his Chilmark vacation home and took a circuitous route to Farm Neck Golf Club in Oak Bluffs, arriving at 1:33 pm.  According to pool reports filed by MV Times reporter Steve Myrick, the President's playing partners today are Cyrus Walker, the cousin of White House senior advisor Valerie Jarrett; sportscaster Ahmad Rashad, and friend Robert Wolf.  This is the second consecutive day the president has played Farm Neck.

If you take multiple vacations every year, work will occasionally interrupt one of them.
Foreign policy crises intrude on Obama vacations.  Obama's last three summer sojourns to this Massachusetts island have coincided with tumult primarily in the Middle East and North Africa, as well as elsewhere around the world.

In 2014, Obama has been late by more than 35 hours.  President Obama has a problem with being late.  This is pretty well-documented. A Google search for "obama always late" offers a multitude of articles.  When he is late to an event, as he often is — and was by more than an hour on Wednesday — the hashtag #whyobamaislate often pops up on Twitter offering various "funny" explanations for the delay.  We decided to try to figure out just how late Obama actually is.  The way we did that was pretty simple:  Every time the president gives prepared public remarks, they are posted on the White House Web site.  And, importantly, they're time-stamped.

50 Things Barack Obama Has Done Wrong:  [#31]  George W. Bush quit playing golf in 2003 because he didn't want the mother of some fallen soldier to see the Commander-in-Chief out playing golf.  He also said he thought playing golf during a war sent the wrong signal to the American people.  Through June of 2014, Obama was up to 177 rounds and is on pace to play twice as much in his second term as his first term.

Karl: Obama W.H. 'Entirely Unconcerned' by Optics of Golfing During Crises.  ABC's Jon Karl reported Sunday that the Obama White House is "entirely unconcerned" about the optics of President Obama playing golf during the ongoing foreign policy crises.  "They are entirely unconcerned about it because their boss is entirely unconcerned about it.  Even if they were [concerned] there isn't anything they could do about it.  He likes to get out and play golf.  It was pretty remarkable, he got here [Martha's Vineyard] and on the golf course in almost record time.  I think we were on the island about an hour by the time he was already hitting off the first tee," Karl said on Good Morning America.

Choom Gang Reunites On Golf Course For Obama's Birthday Weekend.  The president spends his birthday weekend like so many other weekends of his presidency:  playing golf.  Mike Ramos, Bobby Titcomb, and Greg Orme — friends from Obama's high school daze in Hawaii — joined the president for a round on the links at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on Saturday morning [8/2/2014].

Incidentally...
The more cannabis you smoke, the more likely you are to be a loser, finds international study.  International research has revealed that the more cannabis you smoke, the more likely you are to be lower paid and have relationship difficulties.  The study followed children from birth up to the age of 38 and found people who smoked cannabis four or more days a week over many years ended up in a lower social class than their parents.  It also found that regular and persistent users ended up with lower-paying, less skilled and less prestigious jobs than those who were not regular cannabis smokers.

Obama Admits Laziness Is His Worst Fault.  President Barack Obama admitted in an interview with ABC's Barbara Walters, screened on Friday night [12/23/2011], that his worst character fault is "laziness" and he is really a big "softie" and not at all "Spock-like."  Asked by Walters to name "the trait you most deplore in yourself," the president — who was interviewed alongside his wife Michelle — responded, "laziness."

Burning World Can't Keep Obama Off the Golf Course.  According to Saturday's [8/2/2014] White House pool report, America shouldn't be worrying about a fierce Ebola outbreak, our porous borders being overrun by tens of thousands of foreign unknowns, Russian adventurism, Iran's nuke fetish, or Israel's current struggle against an existential threat to its very existence — because President Obama's not worrying.  He's golfing.

Obama kicks off birthday weekend golfing with pals.  Obama turns 53 on Monday.  In what's become an annual birthday tradition, he's joining friends on the green for an early morning round at Andrews Air Force Base in suburban Maryland.  He'll board Marine One later Saturday [8/2/2014] for the short helicopter flight to Camp David, the presidential retreat in the Catoctin Mountains.

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Those Marine One helicopter flights are relatively short but very expensive, and they are nearly impossible to justify if the flights are made just to shuttle the President to the golf course and back.

DNC chair makes painful admission about Obama's work ethic.  According to an analysis by the New York Post, Obama has played golf 185 times since taking office in 2009.  He has hit the links 81 times during his second term — more than do ubling the rate of his first term.  Obama also spends a lot of time raising money for fellow Democrats.  According to the Post, he has attended 75 fundraisers since the 2012 re-election.

Obama needs to work on his foreign policy, not his golf game.  Nero fiddled while Rome burned.  On Saturday [7/26/2014], President Obama played golf while his foreign policy, and that of the nation he leads, was going up in smoke.  Literally.  Saturday was the day the State Department ordered the evacuation of the U.S. Embassy in Libya.

Obama played 81 rounds of golf and attended 75 fundraisers since re-election.  While domestic crises simmer and international conflicts flare, President Obama can be counted on to pitch and putt.  The duffer in chief has played 81 rounds of golf and had attended 75 political fund-raisers in the 628 days since his 2012 re-election, a [New York] Post analysis of his schedule found.  The president is on pace to double the 104 days he spent on the links during his first term.

Barack Obama has already checked out of his job.  President Obama has emotionally checked out of his job a couple of years early, it seems.  How can one tell?  Candidates for president who brazenly assume they are the inevitable victor are sometimes accused of "measuring the drapes" for the White House.  Obama, conversely, seems to be prematurely packing his bags in hopes for an early departure.

Obama's six-year itch.  With all the drama in the world, this would seem a good time for No Drama Obama to roll up his sleeves and get everyone to chill.  But President Obama doesn't seem to be thinking much about work.  So says a growing contingent in Washington, including Democrats, as Obama appears content to run out the clock on his White House tenure.  Crises are cascading overseas and his domestic agenda is going nowhere, but the president stubbornly refuses to adjust his priorities, sticking to fundraisers, photo-ops and ritual denouncements of Congress.

The vacant presidency.  The president's demeanor is worrying a lot of people.  From the immigration crisis on the Mexican border to the Islamic State rising in Mesopotamia, Barack Obama seems totally detached from the world's convulsions.  When he does interrupt his endless rounds of golf, fundraising and photo ops, it's for some affectless, mechanical, almost forced public statement.

5 months off: Martha's Vineyard break will put Obama over 140 days on vacation.  When President Obama wraps up his 16-day summer break next month on Martha's Vineyard, Mass., he will have taken all or part of 141 days of vacation, time split between summers on the island, winters in his native Hawaii and birthday weekends at his Chicago home.  Obama has been criticized for taking costly and lengthy vacations, especially compared to the short trips most Americans take.

Right and left finally agree: Obama has checked out.  Unfair or not, the narrative of a president who has checked out is building momentum, and not just in the opposition press.  Nor is there any sign that Obama intends to do anything about it, or even wants to.

The media can no longer ignore Obama and Hillary Clinton's problems.  Obama in his own different way is heading towards Nixon-like levels of weirdness, as, beaten down by the failures regarding his ventures, he appears to have quit his own job.  A.B. Stoddard of the Hill says in effect he has stopped being president and chooses to live in a world of his own, shutting out the problems that have become overwhelming, giving dinners where he talks about NBA ratings and where he will live when he leaves.

Memo to Obama: It's business, not personal.  Basically, Obama has shrugged off dealing with his opposition entirely.  That may give him some personal satisfaction, but it's hardly commendable for a President to disengage so thoroughly — and let's not forget that Obama was barely engaged from the beginning.  It took nearly two years for Obama to meet with McConnell in the first place.  Obama's also disengaging from allies, as CNN's Christiane Amanpour reported last night.  Former German defense minister and Angela Merkel confidante Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg said that the crisis between the two allies over espionage efforts has largely exploded because Obama doesn't bother to communicate with his allies on much of anything.

Our Chronically Relaxed President Approaches Vacation Time.  Obama's got two and a half years left in office, and he's got high school senioritis.  He's doing more fundraisers than Jerry Lewis.

'Sleepy' Obama going through the motions.  Some remarkable — and frightening — photos of President Obama [...] show just how disengaged he's become.  As crisis at home and around the world mount, the president is withdrawing and making it plain to those willing to see that the presidency doesn't interest him anymore.

Is Obama acting like a former president?  It looks like we have officially entered the world of the post-Obama presidency.  President Obama's recent speeches and remarks make it obvious that he is not making any serious effort to govern or to drive world events.  Except for covering the basics, he seems to have taken something like an early retirement.  We can look back at his West Point speech, which may go down in history as his first post-presidency speech, and the endpoint of an Obama foreign policy.

Obama now in all-out free fall.  [Scroll down]  The Washington Post lambasted Mr. Obama for his weekly rounds of golf, 177 so far.  (To put that into perspective, Tiger Woods plays about 18 tournaments, 72 rounds, a year.)  Of course, The Post harangued President George W. Bush for playing golf, but he quit playing after America went to war with Iraq.  ("I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal," he said.)

Obama tees off with ESPN commentator.  President Obama is golfing Saturday with ESPN sports commentator Tony Kornheiser, for the third time in less than a year.

Obama's political bogey on the golf course.  On June 14, Sunni rebels threatened Baghdad after seizing much of Iraq — and President Obama fearlessly played a round at the Sunnylands Golf Course in Rancho Mirage, Calif.  The next day, the militants posted pictures of their mass execution of Shiite members of Iraq's security forces — and Obama boldly teed off again, at Oracle founder Larry Ellison's Rancho Mirage estate.  These split-screen scenes were reminiscent of the weekend in March when Russia was about to annex Crimea.  Obama played golf both Saturday and Sunday at Key Largo, Fla.'s Ocean Reef resort with former NBA star Alonzo Mourning and former NFL player Ahmad Rashad.

Modi Versus Obama: Governing Versus Golf.  The government of India is considered among the worst bureaucracies of Asia, notorious for government inaction and general sloth.  New Prime Minister Narendra Modi is taking aim at changing the government's culture by keeping bureaucrats off the golf course and in the office.

Jay Carney: Obama 'Paying Close Attention' to Iraq While Golfing.  White House Press Secretary Jay Carney explained that President Obama is fully engaged in the situation in Iraq — even though he spent last weekend golfing.  Carney was asked about former Vice President Dick Cheney's op-ed in The Wall Street Journal criticizing the President for golfing instead of paying attention to world affairs.

Barack Obama golfs while the Middle East burns.  Last weekend Barack Obama played his 175th and 176th rounds of golf as president.  He played first at Sunnylands, the famously private course on the Rancho Mirage, California estate of the late billionaire Walter Annenberg.  Obama next played at Porcupine Creek, the equally private course on the nearby estate of the very-much-alive tech billionaire Larry Ellison.

No Mr. President, You are the 'Serious Threat to Everybody's Future'.  Wake up American people!  The Islamists are living in caves and sleeping on desert floors through the dead of winter, fantasizing about the next best way to kill Americans, and Papa Bear needs a beach and a pina colada?  While he golfs, vacations, and parties with the rich and famous, our enemies have become seasoned warriors with weapons, strategies, and plans intended to defeat us.  We are in serious trouble!

Obama Vacations Despite Iraq, Ukraine, Immigration Crisis.  As the Los Angeles local CBS affiliate noted, Obama's staff has helpfully "scoped out some golf courses and gave a list to Obama just in case he wants to spend Father's Day on the links."  If the president breaks out the clubs once again, it will be the sixth time he's golfed in Rancho Mirage since entering the White House.  As of May 24th, 2014, President Obama has hit the links 173 times since becoming president.

Rep. Price: Obama 'Deceitful' on Border Security.  President Obama was "being deceitful" when he told the American people in 2011 that the U.S. border is secure, Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) told "Fox News Sunday."  "The American people understand and appreciate, given the events over the past couple of weeks, that the president was being deceitful with the American people on this.  There's a human tragedy going on the Southern border right now, and the president's doing nothing.  What did he do this weekend to correct that?  He gave a hyper-partisan commencement speech and then went and played golf.

Amid Iraq crisis, Obama, Kerry golf and tweet.  While Iraqi jihadists are slaughtering the masses, taking over major cities and engaging in the mass execution of Iraqi military in their march on Baghdad, you have to ask:  How much sense does it make for Secretary of State John Kerry to be tweeting to Hollywood celebrities about the environment this past weekend?  Or for President Obama to be working on his golf swing?  Imagine the "optics" that sends to our foreign enemies.

Obama goes golfing during Palm Springs vacation as Iraq descends into chaos.  President Barack Obama spent last weekend on the golf course and on vacation in Palm Springs, California while his National Security team took charge of monitoring the increasing unrest in Iraq, it was revealed on Monday [6/16/2014].  According to reports filed by journalists on the trip of the president's comings and goings, President Barack Obama spent Saturday afternoon and most of Sunday at exclusive resorts playing golf with White House aides.

Palin Calls Out 'Lazy' Obama for Lack of Accountability.  On Fox News Channel's Thursday broadcast of "Hannity," former Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) reacted to President Barack Obama's handling of the ever-expanding VA Hospital scandal.  Host Sean Hannity indicated this seemed to be a pattern and pointed to the lack of a standard of accountability in the Obama administration, which included Attorney General Eric Holder, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and now Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki.

Inside the Obama Frat House.  I have written numerous times about Barack Obama's lack of a work ethic.  Even during his Harvard years, he was known as a slacker who just glided by on the golden path by virtue of... well... being Barack Obama.  The pattern persisted as President.  He consistently has skipped daily economic, intelligence and national security meetings; refuses to call cabinet meetings; considers meeting with Republicans — and most Democrats — as beneath his dignity (or so it seems); turns in his homework — (also known as the national budget) consistently late — another example of his leadership principle in action, leading from behind; and just generally ignored the management of his signature namesake legislation "ObamaCare" until the problems overwhelmed him; [...]

Obama acts like he doesn't care about growing Veterans Affairs scandal.  There's a new story almost every day about how the Department of Veterans Affairs continues to fail veterans under its care.  The drumbeat of media attention has led the American Legion and a growing list of lawmakers to demand the resignation of Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki.  What was Obama's response?  To say — through a spokesman — that he has confidence in Shinseki and has ordered him to investigate.

The 'Don't Worry, Be Happy' President.  Very few of our presidents have ever been truly prepared to handle the rigors of the presidency, but most of them have risen to the challenge.  The time period for Obama to do so expired long ago.  His leadership has been consistently and willfully obtuse and oblivious to the duties and responsibilities of the presidency.

Michelle Obama: Obama family Sundays are more for napping than church.  First lady Michelle Obama told "Live with Kelly and Michael" co-hosts Michael Strahan and Kelly Ripa that Sundays for the first family have become more about napping, downtime and family time than about church or godly worship.  She made the comments in response to a question from the co-hosts during the Easter Egg Roll at the White House, when they asked for a description of a typical Obama family Sunday, Breitbart reported.

Ultra-Busy Obama has already seen 'Game of Thrones' season four.  President Obama has already seen (at least some of) "Game of Thrones" season four, even though the season doesn't premiere until April 6.  But when you are the president of the United States you get all kinds of good stuff like a mansion and people letting you win at basketball and early access to softcore HBO shows.

It's winter in Ukraine, but it's spring break for Obama.  While more Russian forces were pouring into Crimea this past weekend, and Russian legislators announced their readiness to annex the Ukrainian province, where was our commander in chief?  Monitoring events in the Situation Room?  Meeting with the Joint Chiefs at the Pentagon?  Holding an emergency meeting of NATO leaders?  Nope.  He was enjoying the Florida sunshine with his family at an oceanfront resort in Key Largo.

President Not-Present.  We now know — even the Associated Press, better described as the Administration's Press, has now acknowledged it — that President Barack Obama, in AP's words, "did not participate" in a White House meeting of his national security team Saturday morning [3/1/2014] "to get updates on the situation and discuss policy options" in reaction to Russia's invasion and takeover of Crimea and threatened military intervention in the rest of Ukraine.  Those who need help getting past AP's whitewashing need to understand that "did not participate" means "did not attend."  Last time I checked, the president of the United States was the nation's commander in chief, the person who is supposed to be primarily responsible for the nation's security and well-being in its relations with the rest of the world.  He happens to live in the same White House where the national security meeting was held. [...] Congress and the American people should demand to know exactly what could possibly have been more important than Obama's attendance at that meeting.  We all know that if a President Romney or George W. Bush had acted similarly, the press would already be demanding an answer for us, and quite properly so.

CBS Marvels at Obama's TV Binge Watching: 'He's A Lot Like Us'.  Acting like the White House press office, Tuesday's CBS This Morning devoted a 3-minute report to President Obama's habit of binge watching his favorite TV shows, with correspondent Bill Plante gushing:  "He may be the leader of the free world, but when it comes to unwinding, President Obama — well, he's a lot like us....  The President tunes in to tune out.  And when he needs his television, step aside."

The Editor says...
The "leader of the free world," if that's what Obama really is, should not be a half-witted escapist who "unwinds" and "tune[s] out" at any time.

President Obama golfs at Larry Ellison's Porcupine Creek.  President Barack Obama, in town since Friday and fresh off a meeting with Jordan's King Abdullah II, left the Sunnylands estate Sunday morning for a little more golf.  He didn't have far to go.  The destination was Porcupine Creek, the private golf course owned by Oracle co-founder and BNP Paribas owner Larry Ellison.

After decrying inequality, Obama golfs at personal course of mega-billionaire.  Inequality in America is a terrible thing, unless it results in a nice afternoon at a golf course so private that "uncrowded" does not begin to describe the solitude a presidential foursome can enjoy.  Few things in this world are more unequally enjoyed than the luxury of a personal golf course.  But our inequality-hating president found the time to enjoy one yesterday [2/16/2014].

A peek into Obama's weekend at Sunnylands.  President Obama is kicking back this weekend at Sunnylands, the Camp David of the West.  It's a place for high-minded problem-solving — then golf and TV.

Obama's Loafer Nation.  A loafer is an idle person who lives off others.  Barack Obama seemingly has no problem with such people.  He might even relate to them.  He does have a serious problem with his own work ethic, and finds work boring.

The Smallest President.  Would someone remind us again why the nation elected this man to be president?  A man with no resume, a man with no experience in running anything other than a political campaign, a man who is ignorant of history, economics, and technology?  A man who is shallow and lazy?  A man who shares neither character nor temperament with the American people in this vast republic?  How did this happen?

Obama: I have some Hawaii laziness.  President Obama admits his worst trait is that he's a little bit lazy and blames his Aloha State upbringing for his penchant for taking it easy.  "There is a deep down, underneath all the work I do, I think there's a laziness in me," Obama said in his interview with Barbara Walters that airs Friday night [11/23/2011] on ABC.

Barack Obama Is Dumb and Lazy.  Every president is on the receiving end of this kind of stuff, and some of it sticks and some of it doesn't.  But then there's the completely mysterious stuff.  Obama was too dumb to write his own autobiography.  Obama was an affirmative action baby at Harvard Law.  Obama can barely string three words together without a teleprompter.  Obama is too lazy to attend national security briefings.  Obama gives soaring speeches but there's nothing behind them.  Obama lives a life of sybaritic ease punctuated mostly by golf dates and basketball games.  It's just bizarre.

Flashback: Obama Called Himself Lazy.  The clip of the Barbara Walters interview where Obama said he feels "a laziness" in himself that he attributes to his laid back upbringing in Hawaii. [Video clip]

Chicago Law Professors: Obama Was Lazy and Unqualified.  Chicago Law's highest tenured professor on Obama:  "Professors hated him because he was lazy, unqualified, never attended any of the faculty meetings."

To be (a lawyer) or not to be....  Obama applied for a position as an adjunct and wasn't even considered.  A few weeks later the law school got a phone call from the Board of Trustees telling them to find him an office, put him on the payroll, and give him a class to teach.  The Board told him he didn't have to be a member of the faculty, but they needed to give him a temporary position.  He was never a professor and was hardly an adjunct.  The other professors hated him because he was lazy, unqualified, never attended any of the faculty meetings, and it was clear that the position was nothing more than a political stepping stool.  According to my professor friend, he had the lowest intellectual capacity in the building.  He also doubted whether he was legitimately an editor on the Harvard Law Review, because if he was, he would be the first and only editor of an Ivy League law review to never be published while in school (publication is or was a requirement).

The Sequester Illustrates President Obama's Laziness.  "He's lazy, but the media won't report that."  Those are the words of Roger Ailes, the outspoken president of Fox News Channel, with regard to President Obama and his questionable work ethic in the Oval Office.  In a soon-to-be-published biography, Ailes makes the case that the president's political failures can be traced to his unwillingness to put forth the requisite effort — in other words, President Obama plays too much golf, shoots too many baskets, and doesn't do his homework.  The president doesn't get the job done because he doesn't do his job.

Congressional Testimony Reveals Obama Lazy, Dishonest, Incompetent.  Leaving major decisions up to others, failing to stay up all night working problems, hanging up on and refusing to meet with Congressman during discussions regarding key issues, frequent vacations, the golfing, being able to discuss the strengths of all the college basketball teams, etc., all of these point to a man that is quite lazy.  He is intellectually lazy, that we know from his sloppy arguments, stunned looks when he is rarely asked tough questions, from his utter lack of referencing any books or articles that he's ever read, from his own accounts of his formative years, and from what I gathered reading his syllabus for his college classes.  Oh, he's curious and interested, but fails to put in the hard work necessary to be successful.

Is Obama lazy?  All we're getting is whispers from the press, of course, A raised eyebrow here, a sad shake of the head there.  But the picture that is emerging of Barack Obama, the executive, is not very flattering if you look between the lines.

Obama hits golf course on heat wave weekend.  President Obama hit the golf course Sunday [7/25/2010] as the Washington region experienced a humid heat wave that pushed the heat index into the triple digits.  Obama left the White House shortly after noon for the links at Andrew Air Force Base.

Is President Obama lazy?  Times are serious, and Obama may not be.  The question of whether Obama is lazy evokes everything from discomfort to rage.  Yet asking and answering questions provokes "national conversations" that President Obama cherishes. [...] Barry Sotero was ordinary.  In college, he represented nothing unique.  He was typical, mainstream and generic.  His hobbies included alcohol, drugs, surfing, and "chilling."  He was a "stoner" and a "slacker."

Do Not Disturb.  Harry Truman famously kept a sign on his desk in the Oval Office, "The Buck Stops Here."  Sixty years later, President Obama hangs a sign on the door to the Oval Office, "Do Not Disturb."

Obama is Lazy like a Fox.  President Obama has demonstrated leadership qualities ranging from poor to nonexistent.v But is a president who lacks visible leadership qualities really such a bad thing?

All he does is watch TV?
Obama Loves Game of Thrones, Every Other Critically Acclaimed Cable Drama.  When he isn't running the country, President Obama finds time to watch every show friends say he really has to watch.  He's working his way through the DVD box set of Breaking Bad, and has said he's a fan of Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire, House of Cards, Downton Abbey, The Wire, Mad Men, and Homeland.  Obama is also into Modern Family and Parks and Recreation, but the New York Times notes that in general he seems to prefer "the kind of heavy, darkly rendered television that echoes the sadness and strife that make up so much of his workday."

Where Is Obama Finding the Time to Watch So Much Television?  The clear sense of the article is that despite the pomp and circumstance that are perks of the job that used to be designated as "leader of the free world," Barack Obama is just another couch potato, no worse and no better than the denizens of the middle class he claims he wants to help. [...] No one is criticizing the president's tastes in viewing, but his TV habits — or at least the number of series, most with running times of one hour, that he professes to watch — do raise a question:  When does he find time to play golf?

What Obama's TV picks really tell us about him.  Obama, we learn, "seeks not to escape to the delicious back-stabbing of the 'Real Housewives," nor to "the frivolity of the singing teens on 'Glee,'" but to "shows like HBO's 'Game of Thrones' and 'Boardwalk Empire,'" as well as to "the DVD box set of AMC's 'Breaking Bad,'" "Mad Men," "Homeland," "The Wire," "Modern Family," "Parks and Recreation," and "Sportscenter."  "Friends say Obama is also awaiting the new season of the Netflix show 'House of Cards.'"  The president has the same attitude toward spoilers that he has toward leaks.  He is against them.  They might interfere with his viewing.  "The president is way behind" on "Breaking Bad," Shear writes, "and frequently reminds those around him not to give anything away."

Obama on the Couch.  It takes cash to afford the cable connections, premium channels, and Netflix subscriptions required to watch all of the titles on the president's viewing list.  It is also necessary to have leisure time, which, disturbingly, the president seems to have a lot of.  No wonder he finds out about everything from the newspapers.  Shear clearly had a thesis in mind when he sat down to write.  His article is an argument in search of evidence.  He seems to think Obama's taste in television reveals a tragic sense of life, [...]

The secret ingredient in the Obama formula for success.  Not to put too fine a point on it, Obama is lazy.  He loves the perquisites of high office.  He just doesn't have much time for the demands.  Incompetence.  Arrogance.  Left-wingery.  Laziness.  The final oddity is the way Obama combines laziness and ambition.  For he is certainly ambitious.  His efforts to "fundamentally transform the United States of America" are prosecuted by following what Governor Mitch Daniels described as a policy of "shock-and-awe" statism.

Our Lazy President.  I'm starting to get the feeling that President Obama is no workaholic.  His much trumpeted "War on Petroleum" speech in the Oval Office last week fell flat to most listeners, regardless of political affiliation, because our "genius", Harvard educated President made it clear to the entire world that he knew less about the Gulf spill than the average 10th grader.  What has this man been doing with his time for the past two months?

Obama, The Accidental President.  Obama discusses basketball with authority, which means that he must be spending a lot of time watching the games and listening to sports commentators.  Exactly what he was elected for, wasn't he?  While Rome burned, Nero fiddled.  While the world burns, Obama ponders the outcome of a college basketball tournament. ... The famous Occam's razor principle states that the simplest explanation is the most plausible one.  Applying it to dispel the fog of propaganda, it becomes glaringly obvious that Obama is an accidental president, a lazy and indecisive incompetent devoid of any ability or desire to perform the job to which he was elected by a gullible majority, who loves the perks but hates the duties of his office; who loves to play but hates to work.

Sununu: 'Lazy and Detached' Obama Set Stage for Ambassador's Murder.  Romney campaign surrogate and former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu (R) blasted President Obama as too "lazy and detached" to sit through presidential briefings, and charged that Ambassador Chris Stevens paid the ultimate price for that laziness.  "Look, one of the key responsibilities of a president is to keep up with the intelligence data that's coming in and what's going on around the world.  This president has skipped about 60 percent of his personal contact Presidential Daily briefings, the PDB.  That document that he skims on his iPad is a summary," Sununu said last night [9/27/2012] on Fox.

Our Lazy President.  Obama was in the White House for only a few weeks before he started farming out his authority to dozens of "czars".  There's a good reason why no other President has ever done that, because what's the point of being President if you're not going to make the big decisions yourself?

Signs accumulate that liberals are embarrassed by Obama.  Many of us have long recognized the indisputable signs of a lazy man who has never been challenged, and who thinks he walks on water.  A man who has been blessed with all the breaks, and yet who thinks of himself as the member of a victim class, and its natural champion.  A man whose success is all based on creating the appearance of competence, never its substance.  Now that Obama stands under the spotlight and faces an adversary able to outshine him, the illusion is crumbling.