President Obama’s Trivial Pursuits

Keith Koffler: The Middle East is afire with rebellion, Japan is imploding from an earthquake, and the battle of the budget is on in the United States, but none of this seems to be deterring President Obama from a heavy schedule of childish distractions...

Ring around the rosy, a pocketful of posies. Ashes, ashes. We all fall down!

Obama has tried to play Lincoln, Reagan, JFK and FDR-- but in the end he can only play himself, a shallow, manipulative and egotistical amateur who is in over his head, and trying to drag the country down with him. Obama's White House is falling down and while the flashbulbs are still glittering and the parties are going on in D.C. and around the world, Obama and the Democratic Congress may be headed for a recession of their own.

Obama's White House is Falling Down

Washington Post on Obama: Amateur

So Far, Amateur Hour
By Kathleen Parker
Wednesday, February 11, 2009; Page A19

The first however-many days of Barack Obama's presidency have been a study in amateurism,

Many suspected that Obama wasn't quite ready, but kept their fingers crossed. Optimistic disappointment is the new holding pattern.

What's missing from Obama's performance isn't the intelligence that voters acknowledged in electing him. It's the experience they tried to pretend didn't really matter.

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