He's little more than a facilitator, and it doesn't seem to me that he much cares what he is facilitating as long as he can somehow make political hay out of it; sadly, that also seems to be the attitude of a lot of Democrats who keep insisting that if it's good for Obama, it's just plain good.  Period.

And I call it "facilitating" instead of "leading" because Obama doesn't seem to be able to identify where it is that his facilitating should be taking us; he's transactional, checking off the items one by one, but not really incorporating it into either leadership or governance.  He's like someone who goes to the store with someone else's list, who feels free to make substitutions or deletions, and expects people to be happy with whatever can be made out of what he's brought back.  And who seems surprised and a little resentful that he is expected to make something that at least resembles what the original ingredients were intended for.  "Jeez, you want me to cook it, too?