Applying that standard, and then watching the abyssmal performance and headlong destruction of the economy and individual liberty by the President over these 3+ years, then one might conclude a mere inadequacy due to executive inexperience, lack of breadth and depth of knowledge, etc.
The writer is correct, however, when he states that it is not the President who lacks understanding for what he is doing: it is "we, the People" who lack understanding of what he is doing and, more importantly, why he is doing it.
That is why Mitt Romney's cavalier description of the President as "a nice guy" who "just doesn't understand" how the "private sector works," etc., is either shallow and uninformed, misleading, or something else.
The "battle of ideas" for the future direction of the Republic is too important to have someone of such a naive mindset opposing the President in 2012.
Who in his/her right mind doubts the President's commitment to accelerate the agenda he and his carefully selected ideologues are pursuing, and to which he has devoted the past several years of his life?
Does anyone believe that he came to such a commitment just before, or during, the 2008 campaign?
The American people need to hear from an informed Republican candidate about the real nature of the battle of ideas in which citizens must be engaged, and the design and serious intent of the November 2012 opponent.
They need to be advised that this is not simply a man who "is in over his head." He is a man who knows exactly how he plans to achieve the goals which were set for him, and how he must bypass constitutional restraints in order to accomplish those goals.
If Mitt Romney believes otherwise, then he is not going to be a formidable candidate for conservatives.
“They need to be advised that this is not simply a man who “is in over his head.” He is a man who knows exactly how he plans to achieve the goals which were set for him, and how he must bypass constitutional restraints in order to accomplish those goals.”
Romney, I fear, would be just another McCain 08.