By Russ Cote

Obama’s second book, (ghost-written by unrepentant domestic terrorist Bill Ayers), was called “The Audacity of Hope”. A grammatically stupid title and an otherwise meaningless phrase, I suppose it has something to do with Obama’s belief that hoping things will happen might actually make them happen. Well, with the blood in the streets of Tehran not yet dry we see that tragically juvenile character flaw in Obama’s personality on full display. I’m going out on a short limb here and stating unequivocally that no President in our history has been this clueless as to what is actually going on in the world. That’s bad, but it’s worse than that.

Fouad Ajami and David Warren have excellent pieces today explaining just how breathtakingly incompetent Obama really is when it comes to the present carnage in Iran and what America’s response should have been. From a practical perspective, if offers perhaps the clearest glimpse into just who the hell Barack Obama thinks he is. As Ajami, Warren, Ed Morrissey and others have pointed out over the weekend, Obama’s at-first-non-existent and then-consequent-lame-expressions toward the people being gunned down in cold blood lend an undeserved and dangerous legitimacy to the murderous crackdown imposed on peaceful, non-violent demonstrations. While that is certainly precarious enough, I’m more concerned with the increasing evidence that Obama’s rhetoric comes as much from his own disturbing narcissism as it does from his frightening lack of understanding of geo-politics, history and foreign affairs.

It’s one thing just to be uninformed; being uninformed is rather easily remedied by, well, getting informed. Being uninformed because one thinks they have no need to be informed, or, more distressingly, because they believe they are informed, however, is something quite different. Obama has no idea what he’s doing, that much is strikingly obvious to anyone even marginally paying attention. The problem lies in what I see as Obama’s wholehearted belief that he does know what he’s doing; his belief that he and he alone has the intellectual prowess or rhetorical ability to contradict millennia of historical lessons.

I haven’t yet been able to conclude whether this phenomenon is the result of his media cheerleaders or his psychological malady, but I have a feeling it’s primarily the latter reinforced by the former. Either way, it is up to those of us who have taken it upon ourselves to become informed to express to those that haven’t, exactly what kind of individual is Barack Obama. The sheer grandiosity of his narcissistic incompetence coupled with the seriousness of the issues with which we as individuals, a nation and the world are presently confronted does not bode well for our security and prosperity.

I feel truly terrible for the Iranian people who flooded their streets in an effort to reclaim them from the religious zealots who shepherd their nation. It is a testament to their temerity that they pressed on for three days while their neighbors were murdered and beaten. They deserved better from the United States and our own temporary steward. It remains to be seen whether Obama will take the next step and actually negotiate with Mahmoud Ahmadinejead and the circle of Mullahs who pulled the switch on the brutality. If he does, the people of Iran and the people of the United States should make it abundantly clear that Obama does not speak for us.