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Obama is not up to the job of being president. He simply doesn’t seem to care about the work involved. You want to know what? Obama is lazy. He really is. And it is getting worse and worse. Would another four years of Obama be the best thing for America? No it would not. What this country needs is a president who is focused on the job more than on themselves. Obama is not that individual. I actually hope he doesn’t run again. Looking back, as much fun as the campaign in 2008 was, Hillary Clinton should have been the nominee. Hillary was ready to be president. Obama was not ready. He had never lost a campaign. Everything was handed to him. He doesn’t really understand the idea of work – real, hard, get your heart and soul into it work. And frankly, that is very disappointing to a whole lot of us…

America is circling the bowl, and we have a mental COUCH POTATO in the Oval Office.

He has a history of laziness:

"Carol Platt Liebau was first female managing editor of the Harvard Law Review:

It reminds me a little bit of my experience with him when he was president of the Harvard Law Review. You know, I hesitated to say a lot about this during the campaign because I really thought maybe it wasn't fair. That maybe, finally, when he got to be President, this would be a job big enough to engage and hold Barack Obama's sustained interest, because really, is there a bigger job out here?

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[W]hen he was at the HLR you did get a very distinct sense that he was the kind of guy who much more interested in being the president of the Review, than he was in doing anything as president of the Review.

A lot of the time he quote/unquote "worked from home", which was sort of a shorthand - and people would say it sort of wryly - shorthand for not really doing much. He just wasn't around. Most of the day to day work was carried out by the managing editor of the Review, my predecessor, a great guy called Tom Pirelli whose actually going to be one of the assistant attorney generals now.

He's the one who did most of the day to day work. Barack Obama was nowhere to be seen. Occasionally he would drop in he would talk to people, and then he'd leave again as though his very arrival had been a benediction in and of itself, but not very much got done.

So, you know, you see that and you think, gosh, maybe that's the way the guy operates, but then you figure ok, obviously he always had his eye on bigger and better things."

But now he's President...there really isn't a bigger or better thing.

Obama at the Harvard Law Review

That remark about being lazy strikes me. Any ordinary person who does well in both college and law school has to put in a lot of very hard work. In particular, you have to learn how to study and study very efficiently, not something Obama probably did, given his laziness. All of that says he had to get a huge AA free ride in both college and law school.

For example, I would dearly love to know how he got on the Harvard Law Review. From personal experience at the University of Illinois College of Law (class of 1967), I know that the people who are offered the opportunity to go on law review are usually those in the top 10% of their classes. I suspect Obama made it thorough AA and not class standing. The determined concealment of all of his records also suggests that.