INSIGHT

The far left - that minority of registered Democrats who remain in control of the national party organization are upset that Obama hasn’t done enough.

That larger number of earlier supporters, those moderates and independents who pulled the trigger are upset because, as lefty Maureen Dowd noted, what they see now is an “incoherent president.”

None of the above would be upset if they had only ditched their fawning behavior for scholarship.

Obama is simply being Obama.

To have correctly anticipated reality relating to Obama’s presidency one needed only two tools, both offered in earlier blogs.

All of us knew in the primary that BO lacked experience; all of us knew then that his pals and preferred professors in school were Marxists (because he said so in his book); we all knew he refused to wear a US flag lapel pin, that he stood with hands over his crotch as our Anthem was played; all of us knew of his close friendship with a convicted terrorist; all of us knew that he had the most partisan voting record in the Senate (some healer).This and much more - disregarded by the Kool Aid crowd as a form of forgivable adolescent behavior.

To understand his failure as president we must go beyond this background, subsurface. First, there was / is what some observers call a “disconnect” or “the alien in the WH.” We explained this much earlier - Obama did not / does not understand America or Americans. His is incapable of doing so. He has so far demonstrated that in his presidency. This insight was available to all certainly but because of its subtlety, its retrieval took some work, something beyond TV.

Second, and more glaring, he remains for some odd reason incapable of good judgement; this was clear from his past associations and has been abundantly clear during his presidency. It is a chronic disorder, apparently incurable.

If we are interested in insight, that’s all we need to know. Given the combination of these two ailments, he can only fail as America’s leader.

Robert Craven