What's With the Crazy, Impressionistic Psychologizing About Obama?

Seriously. This is among the stupidest crap I've heard in American politics...and that's saying quite a bit. He's arrogant...he's cold...he's "too cool"...he needs to show that he cares about unemployment...people "want to see him sweat"...Jesus christ, are we a country of emotionally unstable three-year-olds? This all sounds like a combination of (a) right-wing temper-tantrums, in which they notoriously say anything bad about someone they can think of, no matter how implausible and unrelated to actual fact, and (b) journalists just making shit up.

I know a fair number of smart and cool people--though few or none as smart and cool as Obama--and he acts basically like they act. Right now, he's acting like a smart, sane person with the hardest job in the damn world. There is precisely no evidence to think that he doesn't care about the nation's predicament. I suppose the idea is that, if his every apparent emotional nuance is not perfectly fine-tuned to suit every person in the country, then he needs to do something different. Caper and emote and, perhaps, smile vacuously and tell us that it's morning in America...

Jesus. I really do think that this is all a product of the aggressively stupid faction of the press corps. How about you guys can the over-wrought two-bit psychologizing and do your damn job?

How about that?