Optically it's all about The One

  It's hard to figure how Andrew Malcolm stays employed by the LA Times because of his consistent, biting, insightful commentary about the current administration.
  This article is one of the most incisive written yet about what's wrong, optically and politically, with this administration.
  Here's a sample from the LA Times:

What the White House issues are photos of a tieless, laughing Obama, feet up on the historic Oval Office desk, chatting on the phone system that he complains is so decrepit.

What the public sees, while it frets over stubborn unemployment and soaring gas prices, is a diffident Democrat who takes a 17-vehicle motorcade of SUVs and limos to be seen looking at clean-energy cars.

  Excellent, excellent, excellent. There's much more that just really makes sense, unlike Milbank.