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It’s as if President Obama believes he’s still in the faculty lounge at  Harvard glamorizing leftist ideals, seemingly oblivious that he is actually  president now and that his duties require him to work on truly pressing matters  instead of fantasizing about Utopia.

He is finally approaching the hot seat. Endless scandals are dogging his  Teflon. The young voter demographic is going south on him. The foreign media are  lampooning him. The economy still tanks.

But in Berlin, with the disposition of Alfred E. Neuman, the blind  destructiveness of Mr. Magoo and the flimsily emulated elegance of JFK, he  lectured the world on the urgency of adopting his slightly modified  faculty-lounge agenda.

As if having freshly emerged from a nuclear freeze seminar, Obama spoke  dreamily of arms reduction between the United States and Russia. Never mind that  rogue nations are on a fast track to developing nuclear capabilities and that  Obama has already scaled down our vital missile defense systems, gutted our  military space research and development and shelved jet fighter programs. Rather  than recognize the ever-growing dangerousness of the world, Obama defers to his  reality-averse ideology. In his mind, after all, the war on terror is already  over.

Conspicuously bereft of the phony magic that accompanied him on his 2008  trip, he told a shrinking German audience that climate change is “the global  threat of our time.” This national-sovereignty-eschewing executive of the world  said: “With a global middle class consuming more energy every day, this must now  be an effort of all nations, not just some, for the grim alternative affects all  nations. More severe storms, more famine and floods, new waves of refugees,  coastlines that vanish, oceans that rise – this is the future we must  avert.”

Yes, global warming, er, climate change is conveniently apocalyptic, because  it is flexible enough to accommodate any and all disastrous events – natural or  manmade, weather-related or otherwise, and events that are completely  contradictory. The theory is broad enough that it can never be discredited, even  if its proponents are caught scandalously manipulating the data. If we have more  tornadoes and hurricanes or fewer, if we have milder summers and winters or  harsher ones, if the Earth has been cooling for the past 15 years and even if  bitter clingers are stockpiling AK-47s at an unprecedented degree, you can be  darn sure global warming is the culprit. So of course it’s the most pressing  problem of our time.

In fact, if we would just tame this dread monster, we wouldn’t need religion  anymore, because man and nature would have achieved perfectibility. Of course,  for global warming zealots, environmentalism is the one true religion, and faith  in God (save Gaia) is passe.

I am nonetheless laboring in vain to divine Obama’s perceived causal  connection between climate change and the economic calamity he’s presiding over,  including our ever-exploding national debt, but I assure you there is one.

With his charisma deflating like a punctured balloon and his rhetoric stale,  flat and irrelevant, he struck out, as well, in Northern Ireland, where he  either clumsily or intentionally offended Catholics with his remarks on  segregated, sectarian schools.

Obama said, “If towns remain divided – if Catholics have their schools and  buildings and Protestants have theirs, if we can’t see ourselves in one another,  if fear or resentment are allowed to harden – that encourages division; it  discourages cooperation.”

While Obama is adamant about Muslim sensitivities, to the point of  deliberately ignoring jihadist behavior in security investigations, he has  almost gone out of his way to offend Catholics and other Christians, from  abortion to conscience rights to embryonic stem-cell research. And it’s  working.

Catholic World News reacted with this: “Ironically, President Obama made his  comments just as Archbishop Gerhard Muller, the prefect of the Congregation for  the Doctrine of the Faith, told a crowd in Scotland that religious education  upholds the dignity of the human person. Archbishop Muller said that Catholic  schools should promote ‘all that is good in the philosophies of societies and  human culture.’”

The Rev. John Zuhlsdorf wrote: “Another example of what this man wants: total  isolation of any religious values in the private sphere alone. President Obama  is working either to intimidate or legislate or even TAX religious freedom out  of the public square.”

Isn’t it a bit bizarre that a man who trades in divisiveness is so quick to  lecture others about disunity? Isn’t it pathetic that in the very process of  urging others toward unity, he alienates large segments of his audience?

In the end, Obama couldn’t be more clueless about the problems really  plaguing America and the world or more clueless about his cluelessness – sort of  the Anti-socrates.

Not only is Obama’s stock plunging in the United States, but his probable  ambition to be president of the world also may be in jeopardy.