Makes sense, actually. Obama' entire life has been sheltered within the friendly bell-jars of marxist university departments, and subversive radical cells of like-minded ideologues hidden behind the fig-leaf of "comunity organizing."
He has never had to haggle in the open marketplace of ideas, so it must enrage him to find that the well-rehearsed leftwing mantras by which he lives will buy him only a mess of pottage.