INDEED: Salena Zito: For Obama, Everything Is About Politics.

As a president, his governing style always has required a bad guy, someone who is “against” him.

It is a way of operating that his staff has adopted. That is why, when senior staffers such as Pfeiffer are questioned by reporters, their default answers aren’t thoughtful or mindful of the office they represent.

Instead, the answers are laced with bitterness toward the questioners and with disdain for the people who might care about an inconvenient issue.

They’re not very nice people. They’re not especially bright or competent, either.