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The American source said: "Obama is overwhelmed. There is a zero sum tension between his ability to attend to the economic issues and his ability to be a proactive sculptor of the national security agenda.

Selection of gifts should be a task delegated to a competent underling. Apparently it was not. Scheduling appearances is also a task for a competent underling.

It is quite possible for a President to sleepwalk through a state visit without offending anybody, provided he has good people around him. OTOH, it is possible for the President to have a successful state visit with idiots around him, provided he has a firm hand on the tiller and some common sense.

The Barack Obama White House has neither.

[This Just In]

Obama has been in the Oval Office less than TWO months and he’s already complaining about the work load. I don’t care how many advisers you have at your disposal, he’s not qualified to sit in the chair for the most powerful leader in the free world.