He may be losing it

Like millions of others, I gave Obama credit for running --along with his apologists in the MSM--a masterful campaign. How masterful? He's basically an empty suit who looked better than the old guy, plus he had the great good luck to run when the stock market tanked.

Granted, I was rather pleased with the quasi-Reaganites he chose for his economic advisors, not as good as Larry Kudlow, Art Laffer, etc., but hey, we're talking Democrats here, on the whole, not bad.

However if there was ever any more proof needed that Obama is an empty suit, it was solidified today, when he named his national security team. Yeah, yeah, I know, Gen Jim Jones is a stand-up guy, no --a great guy. But Napolitano is a non-entity who will shill for La Raza and the open-borders crowd, Eric Holder's a joke as AG, the UN ambassador is a nobody in a dead-end job. But Hillary? Don't get me wrong, as a conservative and hawk, Obama could do a lot worse (we're talking Dems remember?). Most of the Democratic intellectuals have what I call the "surrender at any cost" mentality. We could call them the SAC Caucus for short. These people would love to see America defeated on the field of battle. They are worse than dissidents, they are seditious bastards. So yeay, I'm real happy Hillary was chosen.

But Obama opened himself up for major grief here. Hillary will take over, becoming a co-president. She won't undermine Obama, she'll overtake him. And he'll be too scared to do anything about it. If he fires her, she will take him on in 2012. If he keeps her, his far-Left base will get angry at him.

Besides the obvious, what this tells me about Obama is that he's basically a weak man. He didn't have to hire Hillary, or interview her. For the first 3 weeks after the election, Obama basically owned this country. He certainly owned his party. He could have told Reid, Pelosi, Hillary, etc. that he was president, not them. But he didn't, he caved unnecessarily to Hillary, who engineered the whole interview and appointment from soup to nuts. She not only set up the interview, but steered the conversation to SecState talk, then leaked it making it impossible for him to renege, and now she's the belle of the ball. Plus, she screwed Bill Richardson big-time, causing Obama to piss off the Hispanics who expected a guy like the governor of New Mexico to get this plum position, especially after he screwed up the requisite cojones to endorse Barack when the going was iffy.

Is there a silver lining? Yeah, Hillary screws up bad on some issue forcing him to fire her. (Would Bill's connections to nefarious foreigners have anything to do with his? Possibly.) In this scenario she looks bad and effectively destroys herself as a political player. But I don't see this happening.