Well you bring in the kid to run the shop. He has no experience, background. But he seems a pretty nice guy and he has ideas, so you let him run the place. But soon afterward you learn that you should have paid attention to the “Peter Principal”, that “In a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence.”

Say hello to Mr. Incompetent:

“Again, the speech to Congress was the pivot point. Before the speech, Obama was protected by a kind of political equivalent of the Star Trek Shield. His symbolizing of an historic milestone, which alone moved millions of white voters to his column, combined with his soaring rhetoric, which negated criticism from John McCain and other Republicans of the substance of Obama’s proposals, to protect him through election day and into the transition.

But the magnetism of his historic moment began fading once the economic stimulus, the omnibus and the budget were on the table. As people focused more on the details and how they didn’t square with what they thought he had promised during the campaign, the soaring rhetoric lost much of its power. It may even now be approaching a net negative because it throws so much more light on the inaequacies of the policies.

And so the ground has shifted and the essential narrative is changing. Before, supporting Obama was an act of personal and national affirmation made all the more pleasant and attractive by the seeming reasonableness of his policy proposals and the winsomeness of his public personality . He succeeded admirably in making himself a comfortable and reassuring choice, thus making it not merely “safe” to vote for him, but positively compelling.

Now, though, the mask is off and the disconnect between rhetoric and reality is emerging as the dominant driver of the Obama narrative. The contrast is no longer between the young, personable, historic candidate Obama and a creaky, cranky old Republican White Guy, it’s between what America thought it was getting in a President Obama (cool, reasonable and beyond partisanship) and what it now sees as the reality of a President Obama (government spending out of control, an uncertain hand on foreign policy, broken promises, more bureaucrats, etc. etc.).

Put another way – what we see now is neither what we were promised, nor what we expected.”

America is sensing this buyer’s remorse. The kid who is all all, but no action. Who can’t give a speech without pulling out his traveling teleprompter, making him no better than an average news reader on CNN. As I said during the primaries and during the campaign, he’s a half-mile wide and a quarter inch deep. A democrat’s cardboard cutout cure to Bush Derangement Syndrome, and yet someone who very well may – by his incompetence and fumbling – keep Democrats from winning the presidency for years to come.

No one had to “hope that Obama fails”, he’s already begun to do that and he hasn’t even hit the 60 day mark, much less the 100 days.

Liberals lambasted Bush for what they perceived as incompetence throughout his two terms, but excuse Obama when his short record clearly shows that in a time when America could least afford it a true incompetent is at the wheel. Left unabated he will drive the bus over the cliff. Indeed it’s already on the guardrail.

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