Obama recently blew off 45,000 Scouts by skipping their quadrennial jamboree to tape his gigolo act on "The View" (shudder). He sent a video message instead. The Scouts got the message:

Meanwhile Marie-Antoinette Obama uses Air Force 2 and a security platoon and a closed beach to entertain her party in swankiest Spain.

Meanwhile a minority of Americans are sure Obama was born in the USA (CNN poll).

Meanwhile the toss-up state of Missouri votes 71% against Obamacare.

Meanwhile a federal judge strongly implies that he'll strike compulsory health insurance as unconstitutional.

Meanwhile another federal judge rules that Arizona can't make laws to enforce federal law on immigration.

Meanwhile another federal judge finds a constitutional right to homosexual marriage, so galvanizing non-progressives.

Meanwhile the race card has been maxed out and the repulsive Congressional Black Caucus joins 'Granny Rictus' Pelosi as the face of the progressives with an 11% approval rating.

There's a hard rain a gonna fall in November. But there's something else than politics here. It's the immune system of a diseased body at work. By golly I'm optimistic about America. What other society could turn itself around so fast ?

I agree with Roger Simon that Obama doesn't want to be President. I've seen it in others and myself, when everything goes wrong because you know you're out of your depth:

I am not being metaphorical here — I am quite serious. The more I have thought about this, the more I am convinced Barack Obama no longer wishes to be president. The degree that he admits this to himself, I am not sure. But I rather suspect that in the small hours of the morning he fantasizes he were anywhere but 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. And who could blame him? By almost any measure, he is doing a terrible job.

Of course, as we all know, Obama didn’t really expect to be president. This was to be a trial run. And then it took off. He ended up in the White House with virtually no experience that prepared him for the task. His superior intelligence was supposed to carry him through. Only intelligence — whatever his level — is just one component of leadership, and probably far from the largest one.

But the question here is not his qualifications. They are no longer particularly relevant. This is a beaten man, struggling to show he is not, even though everybody knows he is.

The media claque that put him in office is getting disaffected and now his party allies in Congress are beginning to disregard him, sometimes for the better.
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So what does this mean that POTUS hates his job? On the extremes, he could have a breakdown (as blogger David Thomson has predicted) or simply quit. Neither of these things are likely to happen, though they certainly are within the realm of possibility.

More likely he will stumble on, spending as much time as he can on the golf course or on vacation. Meanwhile, the role of the presidency will begin to diminish. More people will disregard his wishes. If the Republicans win big in November, he will retreat further. This man is not a fighter, because he has never had to fight. He lives in a very close, protective bubble, among people he has worked with for many years, most from Chicago. That will only increase as the wagons circle.