I actually tend to believe it.
He is the face and voice for the committee at the other end of the teleprompter. His job is to sell the agenda. It isn't his job to develop it or bother with the nuts and bolts of it.
They call him when they need him to go face the public.
Kind of reminds me of the Head in C. S. Lewis’ novel “That Hideous Strength.”
Basically....you just described the “empty suit-guy”.
That character from Being There, comes to mind. You just kept thinking he was brilliant, in those empty phrases that were repeated over and over, and in the end...you were amazed at just how empty he really was.
The sad thing at this point, is that you are stuck with here for three more years. How we pass this period away...particularly with a Republican senate in control by January of 2015...will be a curious thing. I can only imagine his speeches wretchening up four notches, and more talk about he can’t do his job....for eight straight years. This starts to sound like some “Ernest” movie from the 1980s.