President Obama often reminds me of the prickly kid brother who, desperate for attention, sets fire to his hair.

He ain’t attracting enough attention, so he has to think up a stunt.

Since he does not have enough hair to create a worthwhile brush fire, Mr. Obama dips his meticulously cultivated, pampered left hand – which hopes never to do a day’s work – into history and turns another tradition on its head.

Suffering a slippage of adoration fulfillment in the media because of the presidential campaign coverage, Mr. Obama poked a manicured finger into America’s eye yesterday.

American history, Mr. Obama repeatedly has shown, is just another pinched cigarette to him.

A control freak adorned in the thinnest skin in contemporary public life, Czar Obama ordered that America’s tallest peak, Mt. McKinley, in Alaska, be renamed Denali, its original name.

In 1896, a scant 119 years ago, it was named Mt. McKinley in honor of William McKinley, the first-term president of the United States. He was assassinated six months into his second term. In hindsight, the naming seems especially appropriate to enshrine his memory as a martyr.

Two other reasons motivated Mr. Obama’s latest demonstration of his Naughty Little Brother sickness:

• His tireless pursuit of legacy enhancement, and
• To draw notice to his latest bumbling defense of the climate global warming change scam.

Don’t be surprised if Washington, D.C. is renamed Obamaville before he leaves town.