Am I the only one tired of hearing commentators saying, "Barack Obama doesn't understand . . ."

[Empowerer]

fill in the blank: He "doesn't understand how deep the economic crisis is" and he "doesn't understand what's going on in Afghanistan" and, according to Howard Fineman tonight, he "doesn't understand the depth of the anger out here."

Excuse me? Can these people be any more entitled or arrogant than to believe that THEY know SO much more about nearly everything than the President because, unlike him who is sitting in some kind of airless, iinformation-free bubbleof clueless oblivion, they sit in television studios all day long day after day talking to each other and therefore, they have in-depth, unique knowledge about all the ways of the world and have their finger on the pulse of what the "American people" think and feel?

I'll step down from my soapbox now. :-)