Yesterday, following a Tribal Nations Conference at the Interior Department, President Obama addressed the audience shortly after the massacre at Fort Hood.

Instead of appropriately starting his remarks with addressing the devastating news of the day, Obama began by thanking people, by offering a clumsy “shout-out” to someone in the audience, and by speaking for nearly two minutes before getting to what he should have been talking about.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0hiw8iXdMM

Now it could just be my anti-Obama bias, but as I watched him speak with so little passion and intensity, almost as if he were reading from a script, I couldn’t help but think that Obama seems utterly insincere about his supposed high regard for our troops.

I can only wonder about the effect this man is having on the morale of our troops.

In general, Obama seems like an immature out-of-his-depth figure, like a high-school basketball player being thrown into an NBA game. The difference is that putting an unprepared player in a ball game isn’t likely to cost billions of dollars, millions of jobs, or dozens or hundreds or thousands of lives.