I could have made that up myself. I swear, I could see it from a mile away: this is a man who wants to BE president, not a man who wants to do the WORK of the presidency. Really, it's a lot like me when I was working to get into the Ph.D. program at the university where I'd done my Master's. I wanted to be in the program, to get that degree, to have those letters, to be Dr. _______ ... but after three years of coursework, when it was time to do fieldwork, I had to admit to myself: I had no passion for it. I simply liked being "in a Ph.D. program." It made my mother proud, it made ME proud... but I didn't care about what I was actually doing. I was just ambitious to be the first person in my family to get that far. So I dropped out and became a teacher, and I'm happy.
But anyway, I could smell that same thing going on with Obama from the beginning. Just looking at his speedy upward trajectory, the way he started angling for the next level the minute he attained something, as well as the lack of actual work or accomplishments, said it all. He's good at winning prizes, not doing actual work. And he's way too hooked on approval to be standing where the buck stops. To that kind of personality, the buck looks like a train coming at you.
It's like when he was made President of the Harvard Law Review (by changing the rules--until then it was the most accomplished law student, but they had never had a black president so they picked him as the most accomplished
black law student at the time), but then didn't do any of the work, left that all to the number 2 guy.
He gets the Nobel Peace Prize without doing anything to earn it--and then snubs the king of Norway when he's over there to pick up his prize. He goes to Copenhagen to tell them he'd really like them to award the Olympic Games to Chicago, and is mystified when Chicago is turned down.
The idea of earned achievements is foreign to him.