In other words, the chess master didn’t even know what pieces he had on the board, which is usually not something we associate with chess masters. It’s something we associate with people who don’t even know how to play the game.

◼ Obama: The Myth of the Master Strategist. His poor maneuvering before and after the Obamacare rollout shows that he’s not three moves ahead. - Jonah Goldberg/National Review

...the fiction of Obama as a man three steps ahead has taken a terrible beating if you have eyes to see it. The budget cuts under the so-called sequester are the law of the land because Obama thought he was outthinking his opponents when he gave budget-cutters budget cuts. Now he’s stuck railing against his own idea. His allegedly revolutionary decision to turn his presidential campaign into a personal political organization independent from the Democratic party has turned out to be the most expensive way ever to generate smarmy and ineffectual e-mail spam. And, if you want to believe that Obama’s goal in Syria all along was to elevate Vladimir Putin and alienate all of our Middle East allies, including Saudi Arabia and Israel, and to make Bashar Assad our strategic partner while he finds more politically correct ways to slaughter his own people, well, that’s nice.

◼ EPIC FAIL: Now JIMMY CARTER is calling Obama an incompetent loser - Eric Owens/Daily Caller

It’s been a disastrous couple of weeks for President Barack Obama. His signature legislation, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, is a slow-motion train wreck. His poll numbers have tanked.

Now, things have gotten so bad for Obama that former president Jimmy Carter has called President Obama incompetent in the family-friendly pages of Parade magazine.



◼ Barack Obama’s Narrative Illusions. - KLAVAN ON THE CULTURE via Instapundit

◼ John Kerry, Barack Obama, Dance of Delusion - Larry Johnson/No Quarter