If you go down the list, his advisors and "czars" were hired primarily for their politics. Not that this isn't true for many political leaders, but if the political ideas involved are irrational, you aren't going to be selecting for a lot of rationality.

The fundamental worldview of Obama and his friends seems to be an academic one, where what one believes to be true gets badly mixed up with what is true. Read my blog entry on "fuzzy" subjects. There's a lot more to that line of thinking, and the more you follow it, the more it explains. It's one reason "consensus" is a Worship Word to such people. Their environment trained them that way.

This makes it very hard to tell if a politician is lying, or just deluded. I think Obama honestly believes the things he believes, but that's just a gut call.