"People are starting to wonder about Obama's competence" Starting? Honestly?

Chris Cilizza of WAPO wrote a column with that headline and I'm not sure which stunned me more:  that headline or his intro sentences:

"President Obama got elected on competence. Now people are starting to wonder."

Really Chris?  You really thought that when you voted for a first term Senator to be President who had never held a managerial much less an executive or leadership position in his life you were voting for the 'competent' one.  When you voted for a guy who'd been a legislator for more than a dozen years and had never led the passage of a single piece of legislation?  Wow.  I would be fascinated to hear your hiring process for lawn care specialists or pool boys or neurosurgeons for that matter:  "OK, I just want to make sure that you're competent Dr. DooRight:  you say that you're a general practitioner who's never done brain surgery but that 'how hard can it be?'.  OK, you sound like you know what you're doing to me, drill away!"

But maybe I misunderstand what 'competence' means to people in your neck 'o the woods.  Out here in flyover we think competence means a demonstrated capability to do the job for which he was hired.  Perhaps you think competence means "dude that is in my party that can get elected this cycle"?

After all, you're from DC and it's just full of competence.  From 800 dollar toilet sweats to website collapses to, well you guys in the press who don't know your ass from a competent executive.  No wonder the country is in the toilet.  You bloody incompetent.