Our narcissistic passive-aggressive president

As the news sinks in that the "top kill" effort failed to "plug the hole" as our president so eloquently puts it, it's worth spending a little time taking a closer look at what our president told us last week about the spill, just before he headed out to vacation in Chicago.

First, he told us this: "My job right now is just to make sure that everybody in the Gulf understands this is what I wake up to in the morning and this is what I go to bed at night thinking about: the spill."

This website makes the spot-on observation of, essentially, WHAT? "Now he tells us he thinks that if he somehow gets people to think about him and how much he’s thinking about what he thinks they think he should be thinking about, his job is done."

Then comes the New York Times fawning over the president because he admitted he was "wrong" in how he handled the gulf oil spill. So sayeth the NYTimes: "He (Obama) was wrong, he said, to assume that oil companies were prepared for the worst as he tried to expand offshore drilling. His team did not move with "sufficient urgency" to reform regulation of the industry. In dealing with BP, his administration 'should have pushed them sooner' to provide images of the leak, and 'it took too long for us' to measure the size of the spill."

But as this website correctly points out: "Actually, that's not a self-critique at all, but classic passive-aggressive behavior: I'm sorry. I was wrong. I should never have trusted you."

What should be abundantly clear to America by now is this president is over his head. And it's worse than that. He's so full of himself he doesn't even know he's over his head.

But hey, aren't you glad you have a president who tells us that his "job right now" is to make you think he's thinking about your problems?