Watched the speech tonight and couldn’t have been more unimpressed. I have actually come to wonder if President Obama himself even believes half the crap he is forced by his own speechwriters to read off the TelePrompTer. Watch the speech and look at his eyes – they are positively dead and void of passion. This is a President going through the motions because the politics of the situation has forced him into it, nothing less.

You know what I think Barack Obama has become? The Rose Kennedy of the White House. Oh you might remember Rose – back towards the end of her life, when she had become wheelchair-bound and fairly feeble, Teddy and the other Kennedys would roll her out before the media as a symbol of a “Camelot” that never was, a dynasty that never was, and the strong matriarch of a family that she never was. And that’s what Barack Obama is – a recreational golfer who has been reduced to playing President, being trotted out before the cameras only when he’s forced to because world events intrude on his recreational schedule and the White House sees its polling numbers going in the toilet.

When you think of it, it’s amazing to see the whole visage of this supposedly magnificent President, this history-defining icon, the smartest and most eloquent of all presidents, this post-racial, post-everything president being revealed for what he is and always has been: an incompetent, narcissistic political animal in over his head, forced to play the role of President and the leader of the so-called free world when all he really wants to do is simply enjoy the perks of the office.