The other problem is that nobody wants to be that guy whose failure paves the way for later success -- especially if the success isn't sure to come. Politician's egos are too strong to want to play the fall guy. They don't want to sacrifice whatever chance they have at fame and power and reputation to be somebody else's Herbert Hoover or Jimmy Carter (or I guess we have to add George W. Bush now). If Obama is that twisted and that clever, he's not going to want to be somebody else's second banana. He may just be really incompetent, not some evil genius pretending to be incompetent so that someone else could take the credit.
LOL. Perhaps I ain't the guy to explain Deconstructionism. Try Camille Paglia.
In a way though, I think with this guy as the front man, with a completely controlled media, and with Valerie Jarrett, the Clintons, and George Soros as the ideological brains (and they are "brains"), this philosophical approach has a fighting chance of taking over. Hell, it already has to a very large extent!
I don't see Obama or his team having anything like the discipline or patience to follow a long-term strategy that the old Communists had.
The East German Communists, among whom Obama has very strong ties, including his half-sister and Raila Odinga, not to mention Clintons (especially Bill), Soros, and Jarrett, always held that the reason Communism wasn't more successful was that those untermenschen russki schiesskopfs were screwing it up. So, IMNSVHO, There's a good chance they are in this for the long haul.
He may just be really incompetent
The Point: Spectacularly ignorant but presentable, he is perfect out front and just the right guy to do nothing. Of course, as any PR guy can tell you, sometimes the dummies get to believing their own publicity!