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Writing in The American Spectator, Andrew Cline describes how the president enjoys lecturing and haranguing: "Obama has never transitioned from his former job as a college lecturer. The reason is that he really doesn't see his new job as that different. It just has more perks, such as the ability to use force when persuasion fails. And the ability to have paid staffers step forward to clarify one's ill-considered remarks." Lecturer-in-Chief? Haranguer-in-Chief? Perhaps even these job descriptions are below Obama's pay grade. Let's remember how Newsweek editor Evan Thomas described his messiah:

A Bad Case of the Bitters By Andrew Cline on 5.27.10 With oil from the still-gushing, five-week-old Deepwater Horizon leak lapping unimpeded into the marshes of Louisiana, on Tuesday the President of the United States jetted past the oily Gulf to a San Francisco fund-raiser for Sen. Barbara Boxer, held, incredibly, at the home of the 350th richest person in America -- Gordon Getty, inheritor of the Getty Oil fortune. Hollywood satirists couldn't make this stuff up. If nothing else, Barack Obama has his priorities. This was the president's second trip to California to raise money for Sen. Boxer in...