@Mr. Lucky – thanks for your comments – you have a good eye for detail.

Here’s another another convincing argument that 0bama is still not quite up to the task and has no interest in self-improvement that MIGHT help him to muddle through. Not that the presidency lends itself to on-the-job training.

http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/obama-255034-one-president.html

Money quote:

“”What are his core beliefs?” It would seem likely that his core belief is in himself.”

After all, he got into the right schools (thanks to melanin), got the right degrees (earning unknown grades), joined the right law review (writing almost nothing) and taught the right subjects as a “lecturer” (preaching a bastardized, racially-fixated variant of Con Law, as opposed to, say, Tax, Torts, or Civ Pro). Credentialism is what got him to where he is today, and it’s what his dwindling base believes in. Internally, I suspect that he’s aware of the disparity between his qualifications and his achievments, and that it does not make for a very healthy mindset (although the former do account for a healthy ego). I won’t lapse into psuedo-psychology like certain other commenters, but I suspect that the end result of this internal contradiction will be personal distress & greater disengagement from the nation’s problems.

0bama probably won’t do an LBJ and step aside peacefully – the 2012 campaign season will appeal to his egoism, and largely involves political tasks attractive to an indolent figurehead (speeches, jetting around the country, and hobnobbing with likeminded elitists). Consequently, IMO, those who fantasize about him relinquishing power are incorrect. If he wins, expect the same pattern once more, as he “coasts” until he leaves office.