Almost an oxymoron isn't it?  But he does have followers.  There are those in the press and those who are blinded by his race who will follow him but for very different reasons. 

The main stream media follows him because they are responsible for him.  They are the ones who failed or perhaps more accurately, were unwilling to vet him during the 2008 campaign.  They saw in Obama that he was in Joe Biden's words, a "clean and articulate" man who happened to be black.  He had the charm and the charisma to become our nation's first black president.  His skills at oratory and his ability to deliver a speech like Ted Baxter straight from the teleprompter would keep him in the spotlight as a man who could go to Washington and impose their agenda on the American people like they could not do from the New York Times or from NBC.  

Those blinded by his race fit two categories, those of Negro origin many of whom for understandable reasons wanted someone who looked like them in the White House for a change and who cared not for what he might believe or what he might do to the country as a result. 

Those that fit the second category blinded by race include those filled with liberal guilt.  Much in the same way the black vote went in favor of the candidate Obama the white liberal vote went that way as well.  Perhaps this category is too broad because it incorporates both a liberal ideology and the desire to also have a first black president over the health and vitality of a nation but it did exist and he continues to have much of this support.  If Obama has lost any of this support it is likely those of the extreme liberal ideology who believe he has not done enough to destroy the capitalist economy or create a cradle to grave utopia.

So, what about his leadership?  Eisenhower once said that the higher the rank, the more important that it was to be up front and visible.  Yet Obama's preference as it was defined a few weeks ago is to lead from behind.  How does one lead from behind?  Does he push others into harm's way then evaluate the mayhem?  Actually, it is much worse.  With his statement that Israel should return to its 1967 borders to appease an unappeasable Hamas he is leading by walking backwards.   One president will not be enough to remove Israel from the category of ally to this country.  It is my sincere hope that Prime Minister Netanyahu will tell our president to stick his head where the sun doesn't shine.  But then in order for Obama to do that he must first remove his head from that very same place.