I had no interest in watching our President Oh-Bomba! on Leno tonight (as I knew he would). So I apparently missed most of the disaster. The man is no good outside his one trick caricature of the brooding serious moderate reading from a script, it was inevitable he would bomb out. While average Americans have lost more than half their wealth and savings, President Obama is on Leno yucking it up and making fun of the handicapped:

The first appearance by a sitting president on “The Tonight Show” may well end up being the last.

President Obama, in his taping with Jay Leno Thursday afternoon, attempted to yuk it up with the funnyman, and ended up insulting the disabled.

Towards the end of his approximately 40-minute appearance, the president talked about how he’s gotten better at bowling and has been practicing in the White House bowling alley.

He bowled a 129, the president said.

“That’s very good, Mr. President,” Leno said sarcastically.

It’s “like the Special Olympics or something,” the president said.

Yeah, what a joke. The economy is in shambles and the politically connected rich are getting million dollar bonuses from struggling tax payers and our President is bombing out on Leno. Yeah, there’s ‘change’ for you. Insult the hurting kids as you rob their families of their wealth. Our President is a real piece of work.

Note: I was going to post a picture of the kids experiencing the special olympics, but I could not post those happy faces in connection with these lame comments, so I decided to just go with the logo. It just hurt too much to connect the insult to real lives and faces and families.

Update: Obama comments are so incoherent when compared to his actions it is clear what he says in public is all just a facade, a lie. For example:

It’s important, he [President Obama] said, not to “lurch from thing to thing” in trying to address the nation’s big problems.

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“The important thing over the next several months is making sure that we don’t lurch from thing to thing, so we try to make steady progress, build a foundation toward long-term economic growth,” he said. “That’s what I think the American people expect.”

You mean like lurching from a stimulus bill to an omnibus bill to GITMO to the auto industry bailout to the banking bailout to a mortgage bailout to the 2010 budget to cap & trade energy taxes to education reform to the government take over of our health care system. That kind of lurching>

“I think Geithner is doing an outstanding job,” Obama told host Jay Leno in an appearance taped for Thursday night. “He is a smart guy. He is a calm and steady guy. I don’t think people fully appreciate the plate that was handed him.”

Well, America sees the results and they suck. So maybe its just because our President can’t discern a top notch expert from a fast talker?

“We are moving systematically to bring about change but change is hard; change doesn’t happen overnight.”

He cited his decision to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and said that it won’t be simple because the administration must figure out how to balance national security needs and civil liberty concerns.

“It’s not something that happens overnight,” he said. “We have to do it systematically.”

Hint to the President: It’s best to have a plan before you tackle problems or make major changes. Clearly, due to your lack of executive or business experience, you don’t know how to do anything but ‘wing it’ and wrap your mistakes in lofty language.

“We are not always going to be right,” he added. “I don’t want everybody disappointed if we make a mistake here or there.”

What happens when you are rarely right? Like now?

Mr. Obama sought to lower expectations for what the federal government can do to help and said it is up to local communities to prioritize education.

Oh, he’s been lowering expectations about what to expect from his administration at break neck speed. That is one thing he can say he has accomplished. The question is not whether he can fix things, it is how badly will he damage things. So far he is all talk, no results.

Update: Some supporters just don’t get the fact President Obama is in over his head. He has no real plans, he is winging it, his team is running on naive arrogance, and the hole things is a mess spiraling out of control (trust me, I have seen the Feds when they are lost, confounded and heading towards the ditch). Here is another example of people missing the obvious conclusion – Obama’s administration is in deep trouble:

Of all the pitfalls Barack Obama might face in the presidency, here is one not many people predicted: He is struggling as a public communicator. 

The sluggish and unsteady response to the uproar over AIG bonuses highlights a larger problem of his White House: Obama’s surprisingly uneven campaign to educate people about the economic crisis and convince Washington and the broader public that he is in command of circumstances. 

Actually I am not surprised. You need much more than the ability to give speeches (and one could say you without the crutch of a teleprompter) to lead and solve problems. You must be able to analyze the core problems, not be confused by the myriad of symptoms you will see. You must be able to devise a way to fix the core problems. Then you must rally a lot of independently minded arrogant SOBs in DC to perform the acts necessary to fix the core problem.

Obama has not show any of these skills, and he has so little DC experience that now that he has had to get off the campaign road we find he is NOT in command of the issues. There is no amount of verbal skill that will cover up this kind of experience or capability gap. Obama is not Bill Clinton – whose intellect could allow him to catch up and run ahead of a room full of experts. If only Clinton had the ability to discern the problems and the fixes (which takes a lot of creative thinking added to the analytical skills) he would have been a real good President. He had his handicaps, but Obama is not in the same class as Clinton. And it is showing.

Update: Good lord, this man is such a jerk. Check out the other O-Blunder here.

Tags: Leno, Obama, Special Olympics