"New" Obama problem: incoherence

[sweetwater5s9]

The backtrack on the Ground Zero mosque and the recent attack on the “professional Left” has analysts identifying a “new” Barack Obama problem: incoherence.  CNN’s Ed Hornick collects input, mainly from Obama’s past supporters, to complain that White House messaging has gone off the rails.
 
“The danger here is an incoherent presidency,” said David Morey, vice chairman of the Core Strategy Group, who provided communications advice to Obama’s 2008 campaign.
 
“There is no question they are having messaging problems at the White House,” Morey said. “They’ve lost control of the dialogue, and they’ve gotten pulled down by the extremes on the left and right. They’ve just not had a coherent set of themes.” …
 
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To which I have to add: Have any of these people actually read The Audacity of Hope?  Anyone who did would not have any trouble recognizing the problem.  I used the audio version of the book and got halfway through it before giving up.
 
Incoherence and hair-splitting is nothing new with this President.  However, as I noted yesterday, Obama has rarely blundered into such an emotional minefield as as this issue has become (fairly or unfairly), and the media hasn’t had to pay much attention to it.  By attempting to once again lecture people on how wrong most of us are on either side of an issue, Obama has exposed himself once again as a person who doesn’t engage well with the American people he seeks to lead.
 
This goes far beyond the Ground Zero mosque. The same clueless, tone-deaf disconnect at the White House led to the “Recovery Summer” PR campaign, in which Obama and Joe Biden have lectured us about how great things are while all of the evidence points to a significant decline in the economy. While the country demanded a change of economic policy to encourage real growth, the White House and Congress instead insisted on spending nine months to give birth to ObamaCare, a bill so unpopular that six out of ten voters want it repealed.  While joblessness continues to deepen, Obama and the Democrats are taking money out of food stamps to fund a bill that will tell taxpayers how to eat.
 
The problem is not just incoherence, although that’s a part of it.  It’s arrogance, and that’s nothing new at all from Barack Obama — and he has the book to prove it.
 
Ed Morrissey
 
 
Update: Keith Hennessey nailed this yesterday

[John Adams]

The last 19 months of this regime has been nothing short of incoherence....

[sweetwater5s9]

Aside from the Barry worshipping cult, America has had it with the Obama government and its incompetence.

[John Adams]

It is in summary a placement of a hugo chavez mentality. This is not what Americans want or deserve. We deserve much better than the son of a bitch placed in the wh by interest groups who have zero interest in America....

[aesopsfable]

Now that is silly, Obama went to Harvard and is very smart.

[daroadie]

Aesop, one of thes Days he is going bounce Stair Ramp of Air Force I and knock his brains out.  I won't be able to stop laughing as he rolls back down the Steps.

[sweetwater5s9]

Obama got into Harvard on a special program not his grades.  Smart is relative to government programs and free passes not merit.