Obama is an amateur, but he also filled his staff with amateurs. It is like Boys Nation visited the White House on a field trip, found it empty, and took over.
A theorem in cybernetics states that the controlling system must be at least as complex as the system being controlled.
The obamicons just don't have the bandwidth.
Parallel (history repeating) is the Greek junta, (1967-1974) where the original military junta was itself hi-jacked by the military police.
subsequently it collapsed.
The Colonels’ junta, which ruled from April 1967 through July 1974, arrested a total of about 87,000 people (of whom 2,800 were tortured), and assassinated 88 persons.
http://www.greeceindex.com/history-mythology/Greek-Junta.html
USA has about 30 times the population of Greece, and is well armed so the internments and casualties my not exactly scale up.