Obama the faker

Sadly, the world isn't interested in this type of story...which is precisely why people like Maggie Gallagher need to keep writing it:

Obama has a problem: What do you do when you're a lightly accomplished one-term senator, a former state legislator from Illinois, a Harvard law graduate who has no substantive record of accomplishments, and you are running against a war hero whom polls show that Americans overwhelmingly view as far more fit to be commander in chief?

Pose, of course.

What else can a guy like Obama do?

So the man who would be president of the United States of America flies around the world in the middle of a political campaign, enlisting the U.S. military and the Berlin Wall as free campaign commercial backdrops, to lend him the emotional weight and substance -- the aura as a commander -- that he hasn't yet earned on his own.

NBC's Andrea Mitchell was the one journalist with the courage to name what she was actually seeing happen: Obama faking even being interviewed by the press."

Let me say something about the message management. He didn't have reporters with him, he didn't have a press pool, he didn't do a press conference," either in Afghanistan or Iraq, noted Mitchell on the air. Instead Obama manufactured "what some would call 'fake interviews,' because they are not interviews from a journalist," Mitchell went on.

My amazement never ends. How can someone like this be thought of with such unadulterated adoration?

UPDATE: According to Drudge, the latest prop to be used by Obama is the Wailing wall. This tour may actually end up hurting Obama--each new photo-op makes him look less like a commander-in Chief with foreign policy experience and more and more like your average tourist.