It's slowly dawning on selected media celebrities that 0bama was elected with no experience and no skills whatever. It was all about appearance, and as long as that was enough - his first visit to Berlin, for example - people loved him.
I won't repeat the full litany of failure, but a fellow with no foreign policy chops whatever whose Secretaries of State were too inexperienced to help is going to have a very rocky ride when he meets the pros.