How is it that I, non-college graduate I am, can see any one of my ideas would be better than his, but all his whiz kids can't see that?
Our local talk show host was filling in for Rush today, and got into this area.
Like them or not, the people that Bush surrounded himself with were people of experience, with proven track records and credentials. Dick Cheney was liked as well as hated, but he knew Washington and how to get things done. Bush realized his own shortcomings and made sure he had competent people to make up for the shortcomings.
Obama has Hillary Clinton, whose experience is as a senator (with not much more tenure than Obama), Geithner (a tax cheat), Rahm Emmanuel (sole experience as hatchet man for the Chicago machine), and others who have nothing in the way of real-world experience. They've never even run a lemonade stand, but they thought their brilliance would make running the US a cinch.
These people are incompetent at best, and perhaps intentionally destructive at worst.