Last night I was listening to some rabid right-winger on XM, and yes, they exist, just as they do on the left but they tend not to want to murder people, like Mike Malloy, or urge them to commit various felonies, like the thug Ed Schultz.

My right-wing crank was talking about how many days that Obama has been on vacation in his 18 months or so in office, and in particular how many socializing occasions he's enjoyed after the BP oil spill.

I found it refreshing, and reinforcing of one of my beliefs, to find that W quit playing golf after we entered the wars in the Middle East. He didn't need the exercise or enjoyment less, but he thought it unfeeling to play golf with people dying on foreign soil. For America. But then the Bushes are a class act. Which is not something that you can say of a single person in Mr. Obama's history or retinue, who go from resentful to in-your-face crooks.

During the biggest environmental catastrophe in American history, dwarfing the Exxon Valdez, Obama goes to every sporting event he can, and all the parties too, and let's not miss a gala. Bravely wiping the sweat off his brow from the fervent socializing, he postures before a camera and threatens BP with what he is going to order them to do. And this is before he spends a whopping twenty minutes, the next day, talking to them.

This is the governance of a teacher, and not the governance of a governor.

Charles Krauthammer is grandly dismissive of the report that Obama commissioned, and if you look at the panelists, he is right, as usual. The panel has only one scientist, and she's a physicist who has blogged about "America's addition to oil." In other words, 200-proof moonbat.

The others are the usual suspects: a liberal deadweight of sermonizing do-gooders, uplifters, green hair-shirts, chiliasts, doom-sayers, and improvers. In other words, trendy people who are important only for their identical progressive opinions. Since their opinions are all the same, save the narcissism of small differences, the report was written as soon as the board was empaneled.

Dick Morris, the oily little pollster who worked for Clinton but who is usually identified as a Republican, wrote that he saw Clinton, in the middle of a crisis, call people in and grill them for information. How do we do this? What are the results? What are the dangers? Bill Clinton was an executive, and knew how to get things done. Morris said that Clinton made himself as big an expert as anyone else--little hero-worship here, Dick?--and then took decisive action. In one article he compared Obama, unfavorably, to W and to Clinton. Didn't have room for Carter perhaps.

Obama is not an executive, despite having "run his campaign." He is a vote fraudster, law professor, and Chicago thug. His only experience is in lying and intimidation, so it is entirely consonant with his arrogant personality that he shall "direct BP to..." the day before he actually talks to them.

Not only is the man's arrogance breath-taking, his ignorance is too. He is a man solely of ideas, and bad ones at that, and not of work. (Note: are most all ideas which are not rooted in work bad ones? Discuss.)

If Obama had executive experience, he would be doing things instead of demanding things. He would be finding out what part of his information is reliable; what part is BS. Had Obama even normal elected experience, he would have known not to trust his bureaucracy. He would be engaged in solving problems, instead of solving the problem of what engagements to go to.

If Obama were a man of any substance, instead of an ego in good clothes feeding off the decreasing adoration of an awakening world, he would be acting like an executive, employing his executive powers, instead of a spoiled guest at a Westin irritated that his spa appointment is off by fifteen minutes.

He'd be a president instead of a diva.