De Edward Klein

But his job is to govern, to lead, to find common ground, to persuade.

Unfortunately, Barack Obama is not wired to do that.

As I pointed out in my book, "The Amateur," Obama is inept in the arts of management and governance. He doesn’t learn from his mistakes, but repeats policies that make our economy less robust and our nation less safe.

He is, in short, a strange kind of politician, one who derives no joy from the cut and thrust of politics, but who clings to the narcissistic life of the presidency.

  "The presidency is no place for amateurs," Richard Neustadt pointed out in his landmark study, Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents. "[The office of the president needs] experienced politicians of extraordinary temperament. … That sort of expertise can hardly be acquired without deep experience in political office. The presidency is a place for men of politics. But by no means is it a place for every politician."

It is no place for Barack Obama.