The problem is that Mr. Obama is exactly what's awry.
He's not just an amateur, he's a juvenile amateur who is completely out of his depth. Worse, the folks with whom he's dealing know exactly where the problem is, and how to take advantage of it.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again:
If you want to understand what Obama will do in any given situation first remember twho things. First: mentally, Obama is still about 19 years old -- naive and still in thrall to the ideology he learned as a child; and second, Obama is a narcissist, and as such believes that it is enough for him to say something, and it will turn out the way he wants it to.
Folks love to come up with complex conspiracies about Obama, but it's not necessary. Not that this is much comfort -- I think a wily, conspiratorial Obama would be a hell of a lot less dangerous than the one we've actually got. After all, a conspirator's first impulse is always geared toward self-preservation, which requires him to deal practically with the world as it is; whereas a naive narcissist is not even in contact with the real world.
The optimist in me says, well, we survived Carter, so won't we survive this? The pessimist says, this putz is so much worse than Jimmuh.