A GRAND UNIFIED THEORY OF OBAMANOMICS. The other possibility, of course, is that he’s clueless. Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence, and after the Geithner/Daschle/Richardson/Killefer/Carrion/Kirk problems, incompetence is looking like the strong horse. [That’s what they’re expecting you to think! — ed. Ah, it’s all becoming clear now . . . .]

UPDATE: Oh, yeah, and the Chas Freeman thing, too. It’s hard to keep track of all the appointment debacles.