It is a puff piece. This is politico trying to do I don’t know what.
When I first read it, I thought it was a puff piece, too. But then I realized that it actually did show him as a braggart and fantasist who actually thinks his bowling score or golf handicap is as important as the big stuff.
He wants to be popular and “best” at silly things (as if anybody really cared about his bowling!) while bragging and writing off the important things that he simply is too dumb to understand (economics, for example).
I think this is part of the Dems’ attempt to project Obama as somehow so likeable, such a sweet little baby boy who’s trying so hard, that only a meanie wouldn’t vote for him. They obviously can’t present him as a successful President, or even as someone who takes the job very seriously. So instead they’re presenting him as a loveable celebrity.
That said, even while the press is composed of raving leftists, I think the bloom is off Obama for a lot of them, too. Maybe he didn’t accomplish enough of their leftist goals, maybe it’s because he has not treated the press particularly well and has shown the same arrogance with them that he’s shown with others, but I do think he’s becoming less popular among them.