Obama and the others may work for someone else besides the American people. This seem to screw everything up and keep smiling and nothing to them. I think the larger government shields the President and his government so that the people cannot see why the screw ups are happening. Some of the problems are plain old mistakes but some things that seem to be mistakes may be calculated events for several reasons. Some of the reasons may be: distraction from what is really going on, elimination of a person or group, or to work the masses into a frenzy.