... Should it surprise anyone that the same guy who cultivated the affections of crooks, terrorists and racists while building his Chicago power base didn't change when he moved to the White House? You can take the community organizer out of the hood, but you can't take the hood out of the community organizer (a statement that applies equally to the current Chief of Staff). Perhaps it's time we add competent executive leadership to the ever-expanding laundry list of items above Barry's pay grade.

Ms. Paglia can't imagine how her archetypal Leader of Men can possibly screw up. She and the tweed and Volvo crowd she hangs with could not bear the personal devastation attached to admitting the problem is with BHO himself. Surely the American intelligentsia is much too sophisticated to be duped by pretty platitudes deftly read from pretty teleprompters by a glorified used car salesman in a hand-tailored Burberry suit. These people are personally invested in playing the role of de facto Obama apologists. The cognitive dissonance associated with Obama buyer's remorse would drive them to double-up on their daily intake of martinis and Xänäx. By rationalizing his inadequacy, they vindicate themselves. Obama isn't incompetent, his people are. Actually, now that I think about it, Stalin was really a pretty cool cat, the Politburo made him do it.

Obama's recent treatment of Gordon Brown gave us a small window into the kind of guy we're truly dealing with: classless, offensive and tacky (odd that this also seems to describe socialism!). This is not how presidents behave. Unfortunately, it appears that this president's skill set does not extend beyond campaigning. On the job training is for Wal-Mart greeters, not American presidents.