Who Is This Obama Chap?

When passions run hot, they sometimes blur our judgment. Barack Obama, his minions, his administration, his press corps, his loyalists are so absurdly vitriolic that we cannot expect mild manners to return to civil discourse. So, yes it is hard to be objective about Barack Obama.

Still, we have to ask ourselves, who is this guy? Six years into the Obama Presidency, we have a clearer vision of David Cameron than Barack Obama. For that matter we know Bebe Netanyahu and Vladmimir Putin better than we know the stranger in the White House. Hell, we know Angela Merkel and Stephen Harper better than we know Obama.

When they commission the Obama Presidential Portrait they should allow one artist to work on it for a day then fire that artist and replace him with a second artist to work on the same canvas. Give him his 24 hours and replace him with another artist using the same canvas. After eight years and 2920 scribblers later, we will have a valid artistic rendition of our 44th president.

At times it seems like our president is a character who has been zapped into the wrong story. As if Hamlet wandered into a Tom Clancy novel. He was just diggin on that soliloquy when he got teletransported into The White House. Shades of Howard the Duck. Dagwood stuck in "Peanuts." Dagwood may or not be smarter than these wise children but everything he says sounds like "wawawawawa" to them.

Something we have to acknowledge is that Barack Obama brought no leadership experience to the White House. None. That is irrefutable. Zero executive experience.

The president does not read intelligence briefings? Could be that he is overwhelmed by the job. George Bush 41 and Jimmy Carter brought impressive resumes to the office and they got chewed up by the position. I am not being snide but what kind of realistic expectations should we have for a community organizer?

No leadership? Poor organizational skills? Hostile personality? We have to ask those questions. And there is one more question that needs to be considered. Is Barack Obama really an intellectual? Is he even half as smart as he is reported to be? If so, will he ever show us his brilliance? Ever?

Yes, we should screen our presidents closely. In this case, we bought the myth without scrutiny. Will we ever seriously ask, "Who is Barack Obama?"